I had a problem last year with IE that was solved by the following...

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I solved it. I did a search in the MSDN knowledgebase and came up with article Q235653. It indicated that COMCAT.DLL was damanged or out of date. It said to reinstall IE5 but I just copied a newer version (which is included in the VB/VFP install) over it and it works. Whew!
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>Every time I open an item in the help I get the message.
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>This page provides potentially unsafe information to an active x control. You rcurrent security settings prohibut running
>activex controls in this manner. As a result this page may not display properly.
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>I set all security to LOW in the internet options.
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>I am using IE 5.5
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>Others with IE 5.0 have no problems.
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>Whasssup? This is sooooo annoying!