IE6 Hotmail Problem

If i use IE6 on my XP PRO SP2 machine to access my Hotmail when i click on any links in the emails nothing happens. If i use firefox insted of IE6 the links work fine.

Ive read loads and loads about these types of problem with IE6 and Hotmail but nothing i do seems to work.

Anyone seen this and fixed it?

[Paul K]

pop up blocker? Could be that something is stopping a new window launching. Trouble is that these days a number of things can act as pop-up stoppers, google toolbar, msn toolbar, firewalls etc.

firewall is off, popup blocker is off and so is the one in IE6.

NO tool bars installed

Wierd thing is it only affects Hotmail inbox

Was NIS2005, it had turned itself back on while i was testing it.

Give that man a sack of oranges

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by gary_580

Was NIS2005, it had turned itself back on while i was testing it.

Give that man a sack of oranges

Not gonna say a word about firewalls that decide to re-enable stuff you turn off Let's just say I learned a long time ago to double check settings even when I knew they were supposed to be turned off Sometimes updates or slight coruptions in the rules tables can cause settings to change by themselves, I know that Zone Alarm used to get this problem now and then.
At least it's working now, thanks for the offer of the oranges though

its turned off now and its not working again. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb ill have the oranges back


it appears that what ever it is within NIS2005 it has to be off b4 you launch IE6 and not turned off while IE6 is running.

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by gary_580

its turned off now and its not working again. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

:waits for all Norton fans to pop in with suggestions:
It worked and then stopped working again? Strange, have you got anything else enabled within NIS that might be causing it? I'd try re-setting NIS to how you want it and then re-booting, something isn't right somewhere.

Originally Posted by Paul

:waits for all Norton fans to pop in with suggestions:
It worked and then stopped working again? Strange, have you got anything else enabled within NIS that might be causing it? I'd try re-setting NIS to how you want it and then re-booting, something isn't right somewhere.

i just re edited my post


You right there, something isnt right and that would be NIS!!

looks like its the popup blocker in NIS2005 that causes it.

thats wierd, if you turn the NIS2005 Pop up blocker on then you cant access the links in hotmail when using IE6.

However if you turn the NIS2005 popup blocker off and the IE6 popup blocker on then you can access the links.

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by gary_580

thats wierd, if you turn the NIS2005 Pop up blocker on then you cant access the links in hotmail when using IE6.

However if you turn the NIS2005 popup blocker off and the IE6 popup blocker on then you can access the links.

To be honest, with so many firewalls trying to act as pop-up stoppers now when something like this happens it's the first place I look. I actually disable the pop-up stopper in my firewall and allow the google toolbar in IE to do the job (when I'm running IE) as quite often firewalls block pop ups silently and you don't know that they have stopped something until it's too late.