cybervigilante
Technical User
Ever since I got the latest IE6 during an upgrade to win XP I'm getting this stupid error message on a lot of sites or on my own site if I even do some simple javascript like writing to a window handle I've created. It says "class doesn't support automation" i.e. winHandle = window.open(...) then winHandle.document.write(...) gives me this error, even though that works in all NSs and all previous IEs.
Someone said they had this trouble from Visual Studio and I had that but I uninstalled it long ago and there is nothing launching from it as far as I can tell.
I've seen some complaints about it elsewhere on the net (one in a german forum I couldn't read ;') but no one seems to have a solution.
This is driving me nuts. I can't write the simplest javascript without getting this dumb error. I don't get it in NS6 and didn't get it in IE5 with the same code. I'd switch to NS but my favorite site builder, NOF 7, relies heavily on IE.
I also had SQL server once, in addition to VB, so I suspect something previously installed for data handling or script is conflicting with the newest IE install, but who can figure that accursed registry that Never seems to lose old entries but just grows fatter with errors until you have to do a hard format. Only I don't have time to do a hard format and reinstall a hundred programs clean. What an abominable idea the registry was. Msoft needs to get rid of it entirely. I'd Much rather go back to config files in the program directory as long as they followed a standard. Sorry, not relevant to the problem, but I really loathe the Registry ;')
If anyone could point me to what to delete that is causing it, I'd appreciate it. People who see the same sites with different installs of IE are not getting the popup. But other people are. It's some "improvement" msoft made to IE that doesn't fit with some of their other script or data handling software.
Someone said they had this trouble from Visual Studio and I had that but I uninstalled it long ago and there is nothing launching from it as far as I can tell.
I've seen some complaints about it elsewhere on the net (one in a german forum I couldn't read ;') but no one seems to have a solution.
This is driving me nuts. I can't write the simplest javascript without getting this dumb error. I don't get it in NS6 and didn't get it in IE5 with the same code. I'd switch to NS but my favorite site builder, NOF 7, relies heavily on IE.
I also had SQL server once, in addition to VB, so I suspect something previously installed for data handling or script is conflicting with the newest IE install, but who can figure that accursed registry that Never seems to lose old entries but just grows fatter with errors until you have to do a hard format. Only I don't have time to do a hard format and reinstall a hundred programs clean. What an abominable idea the registry was. Msoft needs to get rid of it entirely. I'd Much rather go back to config files in the program directory as long as they followed a standard. Sorry, not relevant to the problem, but I really loathe the Registry ;')
If anyone could point me to what to delete that is causing it, I'd appreciate it. People who see the same sites with different installs of IE are not getting the popup. But other people are. It's some "improvement" msoft made to IE that doesn't fit with some of their other script or data handling software.