Re: Can't run internet explorer

is the link on your desktop the exact same as link on his desktop?
there are some trojans in the wild under various names like explorer.exe
Also - when my daughter comes home from college & connects to my home
network,
I have to "reset" the dhcp settings. to flush out the address from the
college network.
jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:25 AM
Subject: [PCTECH] Can't run internet explorer


> I have a strange one with my son's laptop.  It started about 2 weeks ago.
> He brought it home from college over Thanksgiving for me to mess with.
It's
> XP Pro with SP2.
>
> Under his user name, Internet Explorer (IE) won't run.  Nothing happens.
He
> had someone in his dorm remove/reinstall IE with no luck.  I have run
> Viruscan, Ad-Aware, and SpyBot.  Did a disk cleanup.  Mozilla runs fine.
> Tried the quick launch icon, desktop icon, and clicking on IE directly in
> Windows Explorer.  I even opened a command prompt in the C:Program
> Files/Internet Explorer directory and keyed in "iexplore.exe"  No luck and
> no error messages.  Went through the IE troubleshooter and found nothing.
>
> Under my user name, it works fine.  No troubles whatsoever.
>
> When he first went to college 2-3 months ago, there were various things
> installed such as SmartEnforcer Client, but there were no problems until
> recently.  In poking around, I found the university (Anderson) had changed
> Windows Update to point to some place on their site.  This made sense,
> however.  Can you see thousands of students downloading SP2
simultaneously?
> <g>
>
> I have never seen this behavior before.  Any suggestions appreciated.
>
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> Jeff Crosby
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> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
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