"thecent" <thecent@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:88B7CE47-B2D0-4B43-B7EC-5F3135F14473@microsoft.com...
> Hi Robert,
>
> Thank you for your suggestions. I feel a little silly; a tiny program known
> as sQusi Tracking Blocker I had once installed was the culprit! I found this
> to be the case just before my decision to uninstall/reinstall IE7. At least
> my quest is over - phew!


Good work. Thanks for sharing your solution.


>
> I do have 2 quick questions, though:
>
> 1.) Am I to be concerned about the fact that I re-registered shdocvw.dll?
> You mentioned
> potential problems with doing that.


There is only one small consequence of it that I know of.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...a1b&sloc=en-us

Argghh. Nobody voted for that one, so it got aged out of the web interface's
archive. And apparently Google doesn't know it as Message-ID:
c1544281-847b-4915-ba38-457c20312a1b@microsoft.com
(uppercased or otherwise)

Ok. Found it again.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/msg/b102eef892110e6a?as_umsgid=e$p2rhoKHHA.1424@TK2MSF TNGP04.phx.gbl


Let's replicate the key information:


<quote>
HKCR\TypeLib\{EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B}\1.1\0\win32


If the (default) value data is C:\WINDOWS\system32\shdocvw.dll, then that's what is causing the problem.


It should be set to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\ieframe.dll"


</quote>


I think Ramesh has written this up more formally now on his website
so try searching there if this hint isn't enough.


> 2.) Does mshtml.dll have to be dealt with since attempting to
> re-registering it failed?


I don't think so.


>
> Thanks again for your interest.
>
> -thecent


You're welcome. Happy to help.


Robert
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