Vista - Re: Problems accessing some webpages

(cross-post added to Vista General)
"Rick" <Rick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 1. You are correct. I did the view source and it says "This page requires
> frames, but your browser does not support them".


That's the problem then. I don't think that you need to allow scripting
in order for frames to be supported. As a workaround you can
extract the URL for the frame to your Address bar and continue with it.

Only if the browser doesn't support frames would the scripting issue
come up there. That had me confused initially. Notice that the script
in that source is associated with Noframes element.


> But I checked my security settings and it says I have active scripting enabled.

Then I guess that's a clue that the browser still thinks that frames are
supported, otherwise it would be using the noframes element.


> Now what?

Presumably you could also extract the javascript function from the noframes
element and execute it in your Address bar too.

Have you tried eliminating the possibility of third-party interference?
E.g. using No Add-ons mode? Done more intensive clean-boot
troubleshooting? E.g. other interferers act as IE Add-ons but can't
be blocked as such.

At an extreme you could try RIES since that is the only repair procedure
that IE7 has left us. Notice that you will lose all your AutoComplete data,
including passwords, but that probably won't matter too much to you
if you just installed Vista. PSPV is the alternative I usually suggest to
XP users but I don't know yet if it works under Vista.


>
> 2. No idea what that means.

I have commented on this many times before, usually including a KB reference.
Try a search? Ok. It's KB923196


Good luck

Robert
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> "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
>
>> "Rick" <Rick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E7FFF34A-C321-43A0-8231-6CFFBEEE8227@microsoft.com...
>> > Just got a new computer and it has Vista. Didn't have any problems until I
>> > set up a home network (Linksys). Now I have trouble accessing 2 types of
>> > pages. Not sure if I screwed up some setting or if its the network setup.
>> >
>> > 1. I can no longer acces some pages that have flash. An example is
>> > www.rr.com. Page comes up blank.
>>
>>
>> Check with View Source. E.g. press Alt-V,c
>> My guess is that it's not "blank" and that your security settings
>> disable Active Scripting which might be needed before anything renders.
>> Note: I haven't bothered changing my own security settings to check this idea.
>> However, the initial page which conceivably you could be seeing but only if
>> HTML frames aren't working for you would clearly cause this symptom.
>> E.g. as seen by tracing with Fiddler.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 2. Some secure sites (work related) that I could access before I get the
>> > following message. "This document requires a larger secret key size for
>> > encryption than your browser is capable of supporting". My IE encryption on
>> > the computer is 256 bit. I think only 128 is needed since my old computer was
>> > able to access the sites.
>>
>>
>> Such messages could be erroneous attempts to explain other unstated
>> symptoms. E.g. if the operation of the site is dependent on recognizing
>> your User-Agent string and if the site has not been coded to recognize IE7's
>> User-Agent it could be reverting to displaying a message it would reserve
>> for older browsers. Etc. Try using a User-Agent spoof to send MSIE 6.0
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
>> >
>> > R
>>
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Robert Aldwinckle
>> ---
>>
>>
>>

I just checked the www.rr.com website since it is my ISP and it does
come up Blue, but with the following text:

-----------------------------------------------------------------

What is this blue screen?
When attempting to view www.rr.com, a blue screen may appear due to
various security settings in your browser. In order to get rid of the
blue screen that appears when viewing www.rr.com and still keep a high
security level, you will need to adjust your security settings.

For instructions on correcting this click this link.

----------------------------------------------------------------

The link is to http://content.rr.com/rr-extras/blue.html which begins:

What is this blue screen?
When attempting to view www.rr.com, a blue screen may appear due to
various security settings in your Internet Explorer browser. In order
to get rid of the blue screen that appears when viewing www.rr.com and
still keep a high security level, you will need to adjust your security
settings.

Please select your Browser:

Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari

I'll try their instructions when finished here.