IE6 and Yahoo long URL hangs after kidproog w98SE

[kglade]

I installed kidproof on my Win98SE machine. It failed to work properly so I uninstalled it with its uninstall program. Since then IE6 has behaved strangely. I can surf pretty well but when I check my Yahoo mail account, I can log-in OK, view inbox OK, but when I try to view a mail item IE hangs with the thermometer slowly ticking off and never loading the message.

Note that IE is not wedged - if I click on STOP and then click on <Yahoo> I can surf to the main page.

I tried accessing my Yahoo account from another PC and it is fine so I know it is not a Yahoo problem.

The only observation I have is that I seem to be able to browse to short URL's but Yahoo mail message use very long URL's (maybe 80-100 characters).

I tried re-installing IE6, tried IE6 repair, tried re-registering a handful of files (urlmon.dll, mshtml.dll, actxprxy.dll, oleaut32.dll, shdocvw.dll, msvbvm60.dll, olepro32.dll) all to no avail. I am at wits end with this one!

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Ken

 

[kglade]

I found my own solution.

Summary: web pages may not load successfully after you click Allow Cookie or Block Cookie in the Privacy Alert dialog box in IE6.

Microsoft explains:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306027

More insight:

http://www.kburra.com/support/ie6_info.html

Regards,
Ken