My guess is that would work fine in opera or whatever else. Unfortunately, when Symantec's setup screens appear to use the same browser, I need to correct the problem with IE.

One other clue, I looked again at the MSN page and discovered that the whole page did render; only everything runs down the left column, rather than across the page. So the center column appears below the left column, etc. So it's a rendering problem of some sort....
IE is at version 6 with the latest updates.


>>I have a computer that started "omitting" parts of web pages recently. Example: msn.com will only show the left pane and the header. The worst part is that installing Norton Utilities 2005 has a problem when I try to run the registration wizard - the Norton program only shows the outline of a button and no text. Assuming that the button is "next" - I press it and the next screen that comes up tries to show the install date and expiration date of the program. I get the titles of each box, but not the actual dates. No buttons show this time, thus preventing me from continuing (I've even hunted to see if they were hidden or mis-colored.....to no avail).
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>>I have changed all the themes, fonts, colors that I can think of. I've removed and reinstalled the video and monitor drivers. Nothing has helped.
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>>Any ideas to further debug would be most gratefully appreciated!!!!
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>Try with an alternate browser, like Opera - www.opera.com - or FireFox, and perhaps both. This might help pinpoint the problem to either Internet Explorer, or something else in your Windows installation, depending on whether the problem also appears in Opera.
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>Come to think of it, you might start using Opera (or FireFox) as your main browser; both have many more features than IE, apart from being more secure. But even if you don't, the alternate browser may still help you to pinpoint the problem.