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April 18th, 2011 - 07:51 pm ET by Henry | Report spam
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Running 3GHz CPU, 2 G RAM, WinXP Pro SP3, hi speed internet (Comcast)

IE8 has been working just fine on my computer for months. IE8 about a couple
of months ago started not loading videos from *some* sites like
Marketwatch.com. It does load YouTube and videos from other sites and .swf
files from my hard drive. I've contacted Marketwatch and they have no
answer. IE8 works just fine on my wife's computer. I opened IE8 to
tools/internet options on both my computer and my wife's and compared the
settings for all tabs and they are exactly the same, but her IE8 works and
mine doesn't. I have the latest version of flash and Java. I installed
Microsoft Silverlight 4.0.51204.0 to no avail. I disabled Windows firewall
and Avast to no avail and enabled them again. I re-booted in Safe Mode with
Networking and got the same bad results. I un-installed SP3 and IE8 and
re-installed both and then got all the updates, with no luck with the
video's. I did a clean boot and tried IE8 with no luck. I ran ie8-regeg.cmd
and that didn't help. I switched to compatibility mode (IE7) no luck. I used
Microsofts FixIt program with no luck. I made a new account and transfered my
old profile over except for the ntuser files. IE8 would not play videos in
my new account.

Anyone got any other ideas please?
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#1 VanguardLH
April 19th, 2011 - 04:15 pm ET | Report spam
Henry wrote:

Running 3GHz CPU, 2 G RAM, WinXP Pro SP3, hi speed internet (Comcast)

IE8 has been working just fine on my computer for months. IE8 about a couple
of months ago started not loading videos from *some* sites like
Marketwatch.com. It does load YouTube and videos from other sites and .swf
files from my hard drive. I've contacted Marketwatch and they have no
answer. IE8 works just fine on my wife's computer. I opened IE8 to
tools/internet options on both my computer and my wife's and compared the
settings for all tabs and they are exactly the same, but her IE8 works and
mine doesn't. I have the latest version of flash and Java. I installed
Microsoft Silverlight 4.0.51204.0 to no avail. I disabled Windows firewall
and Avast to no avail and enabled them again. I re-booted in Safe Mode with
Networking and got the same bad results. I un-installed SP3 and IE8 and
re-installed both and then got all the updates, with no luck with the
video's. I did a clean boot and tried IE8 with no luck. I ran ie8-regeg.cmd
and that didn't help. I switched to compatibility mode (IE7) no luck. I used
Microsofts FixIt program with no luck. I made a new account and transfered my
old profile over except for the ntuser files. IE8 would not play videos in
my new account.

Anyone got any other ideas please?



What's in your 'hosts' file? Unless you update and manage your own
hosts file to use in blocking unwanted content, you won't know what's
included in a pre-compiled hosts file you got from elsewhere (ex., MVP's
hosts file) unless you look in it to see what's listed. Even if
marketwatch.com isn't listed, content there may be sourced elsewhere and
that's what gets blocked.

What security software do you have running? Uninstalled it during test?
What spam/ad blockers did you install?

Whose DNS server are you using?
Have the TCP settings in registry been tampered?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces
Keys under here define the TCP interfaces and malware can change these
so you end up using a different DNS server than you think you are.

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled the Adobe Flash Player (from
Adobe's web site, not from somewhere else that claimed you needed a
newer version and "offered" it to you from their site)? Got any other
FLV/SWF players installed?

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