IE Problem After 10/12 Critical Updates Applied

After the patches from the week of 10/12 were applied to the two machines on
my home network (both running XP SP2) I find that if I leave the PC for any
length of time and then come back and atempt to access a web site through IE
-- IE will not connect and will display the can't find server page. If I
logoff the PC and then log back on -- voila! -- IE has no problems. This
problem was not occurring prior to Microsoft Update applying the updates.

Anyone else having issues or know how to fix?

I have WinXP SP2. When I installed all the updates this month my IE was
screwed
up. There were no drop down menu items on top toolbar showing but they would
drop down if I scrolled over them, my start menu lost all its small icons,
any folders I went to showed icons only and I could not change it back to
list like I normally have them, and a few other things were "changed" I don't
remember. So after reading the posts here, I UNINSTALLED all of the days
updates ( I had 8 of them) and then reinstalled one by one (this time with my
AV off) except I did not reinstall KB896688( only downloaded and saved it).

What I finally did was went to KB896688 on MS downloads site and then DL it
from there to SAVE and then decided to try it again installing from my own
computer and now my IE and computer all works fine. I also made sure I had
my AV disabled this time when saving it and when installing it with nothing
else
running or open. I think what happened when trying to DL all 8 from WIN
Update site, something was corrupted in the process of DL or installation.

If you scroll down here on this discussion board you will see many folks are
having all sorts of problems with this months updates from MS especially I
think if you try to take them all from the WIN Update site using Express and
doing all of them at once.

--
Dan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin


"Don" wrote:

> After the patches from the week of 10/12 were applied to the two machines on
> my home network (both running XP SP2) I find that if I leave the PC for any
> length of time and then come back and atempt to access a web site through IE
> -- IE will not connect and will display the can't find server page. If I
> logoff the PC and then log back on -- voila! -- IE has no problems. This
> problem was not occurring prior to Microsoft Update applying the updates.
>
> Anyone else having issues or know how to fix?

"oknowhi" <> wrote in message
news:C3EFF0E6-6F2A-438C-97F9-...
>I have WinXP SP2. When I installed all the updates this month my IE was
> screwed
> up. There were no drop down menu items on top toolbar showing but they
> would
> drop down if I scrolled over them, my start menu lost all its small icons,
> any folders I went to showed icons only and I could not change it back to
> list like I normally have them, and a few other things were "changed" I
> don't
> remember. So after reading the posts here, I UNINSTALLED all of the days
> updates ( I had 8 of them) and then reinstalled one by one (this time with
> my
> AV off) except I did not reinstall KB896688( only downloaded and saved
> it).
>
> What I finally did was went to KB896688 on MS downloads site and then DL
> it
> from there to SAVE and then decided to try it again installing from my own
> computer and now my IE and computer all works fine. I also made sure I had
> my AV disabled this time when saving it and when installing it with
> nothing
> else
> running or open. I think what happened when trying to DL all 8 from WIN
> Update site, something was corrupted in the process of DL or installation.
>
> If you scroll down here on this discussion board you will see many folks
> are
> having all sorts of problems with this months updates from MS especially I
> think if you try to take them all from the WIN Update site using Express
> and
> doing all of them at once.
>
> --
> Dan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

I did them all at once, but through the Custom method and I did not download
the Malicious Removal Tool. I never do. I did, however, disable my AV's auto
scan and spywareguard before downloading and installing. I have no problems
with them.

Alias
>
>
> "Don" wrote:
>
>> After the patches from the week of 10/12 were applied to the two machines
>> on
>> my home network (both running XP SP2) I find that if I leave the PC for
>> any
>> length of time and then come back and atempt to access a web site through
>> IE
>> -- IE will not connect and will display the can't find server page. If I
>> logoff the PC and then log back on -- voila! -- IE has no problems. This
>> problem was not occurring prior to Microsoft Update applying the updates.
>>
>> Anyone else having issues or know how to fix?