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VanguardLH
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Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. Have not been watchful to notice when this page became incomplete. I set IE8 to use "about:Tabs" as its home page. I wanted it to display the recovery options that are present in that page so, for example, I could elect to reload the last set of tabs when IE8 first loads. The "about:Tabs" page will no longer display its useful content. Only a portion of the web page gets painted but none of the recovery features, like opening the last set of tabs. An error occurs when loading the page saying: Webpage error details Message: Element not found. Line: 144 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm Line 144 has: <body id="newTabPage" onload="window.external.BuildNewTabPage(); contentContainer.style.display='block';"> So when the page loads (its body), the onload event is triggered and the BuildNewTabPage() method gets called. The about:Tabs page should look similar to the image below: http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.m...bout-tabs1.png or http://apcmag.com/images/03NewTabs.jpg or http://registry.cesabarre.com/Tweaks...age/error1.gif Alas, all that gets painted is the "What do you want to do next?" line, a blank section, and a horizontal rule underneath which is a link to "Learn more about ..." (which is a link to that same web page). I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. Since the resource (tabswelcome.htm web page) appears to come from ieframe.dll, I looked around to see where it was. It is under C:\Windows\System32. There are copies of this file elsewhere but are for older versions, like under C:\Windows\IE8 (maybe that's used when uninstalling IE8 and going back to the prior version of IE). I looked in the registry to see how this DLL file was registered. That is, I checked to see what path was listed for any "server" registry entry that points at where to find the ieframe.dll file. All of them have the C:\Windows\System32 path so that's the copy that should get used in any reference to this DLL that doesn't include a path to it. The version of ieframe.dll in C:\Windows\System32 is 8.00.60012.18777 and is 11,064,832 bytes in size. I even ran "sfc /scannow" but the same version of ieframe.dll was left in C:\Windows\System32. But then I rather expected that result since this was the same version under the DLLCACHE folder from where the backup copies are retrieved by the System File Checker utility. When I try to re-register the DLL file via: cd \winodws\system32 regsvr32 ieframe.dll it errors with: RegSvr32 DllRegisterServer in ieframe.dll failed. Return code was: 0x80004001 DllRegister is an exported method of the DLL to define how to register that library in the registry (i.e., it's an entry point in the DLL that runs code to define how it gets registered). I tried de-registering it (to then re-register it) but also get the same error. I even booted into Window's Safe Mode but could not register it. I have a virtual machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP-3 + Windows updates (except for IE8 so IE7 still runs in that VM). I still could not register ieframe.dll inside the test VM so I'm wondering what happens in all those articles when users try to follow the advice to re-register this DLL. It fails when I try to re-register it; however, registration often involves adding definitions in the registry of where to find the DLL (and perhaps define some functions for particular calls to it) and my registry entries (that have paths specified to the ieframe.dll) all point to the one located in C:\Windows\System32. I found in the registry where these About URLs are defined (about:home, about:Tabs, etc) and the definitions there look good: Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs Data items (and their values): "NavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" "DesktopItemNavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" "NavigationCanceled"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" "OfflineInformation"="res://ieframe.dll/offcancl.htm" "Home"=dword:0000010e "blank"="res://mshtml.dll/blank.htm" "PostNotCached"="res://ieframe.dll/repost.htm" "NoAdd-ons"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddon.htm" "NoAdd-onsInfo"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddoninfo.htm" "SecurityRisk"="res://ieframe.dll/securityatrisk.htm" "Tabs"="res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm" "InPrivate"="res://ieframe.dll/inprivate.htm" From searches, it appears the Tabs data item is correctly defined (as opposed to malware that attempts to usurp these pages). I entered "res://ieframe.dll/<page>.htm" in the Address Bar to test each of these and all of them worked except for tabswelcome.htm which had the script error reporting a missing element (which I'm guessing is the BuildNewTabPage() method from some NewTabPageScripts.js script file). I don't know how to dig into a DLL to determine where it defines these resources and what are their values (i.e., what should be their HTML content). However, when I view the source for the about:Tabs page display, nothing strikes me as missing. It appears that Javascript is used to dynamically build the page. Line 144 (where the error is reported) runs the window.external.BuildNewTabPage() method for the onload event (when the page loads). I'm not sure where this function is defined except that maybe it is in the .js Javascript file defined in the <HEAD> section, as in: <script src="NewTabPageScripts.js" ...> Presumably this is yet another resource within ieframe.dll because I cannot find this .js file anywhere on my drive. My guess is that the BuildNetTabPage() method is used to dynamically construct all the content on the about:Tabs page between the "What do you want to do next?" line to the horizontal rule and "Learn more ..." lines. To make sure scripting was enabled, I used web sites that test Javascript, like http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html, and they passed. So it's not that scripting was somehow disabled in IE8. I did poke around inside of the ieframe.dll.mui file (also under C:\Windows\System32) and did find the HTML code for the TabsWelcome.htm web page in there; however, the NewTabPageScripts.js script file where this function is probably defined was not found in this .mui file. I went searching through the contents of files for "NewTabPageScripts.js" but got no hits. I ran out of ideas of where to dig next in trying to fix the about:tabs page other than to try System Restore, seeing if IE8 will re-install atop of itself (and possibly step atop of whatever is ailing it now), or to walk back through incremental image backups to see when the problem disappears. I could switch to using about:blank as the home page but I'd like to get back the functionality of the about:tabs page (and also because that is the page displayed when a new tab is opened). |
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rob^_^
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Hi,
window.external.BuildNewTabPage() Is an external function. Check your versions of IExplore.exe and IEUser.dll in the Internet Explorer folder. Possibly have you been running another MSIE browser like Maxthon? or Do you have v6 of the Google toolbar installed and have not disabled/enabled all of its components (toolbar and bho components?) Regards. "VanguardLH" <> wrote in message news:h460ga$udt$... > Windows XP Pro SP-3 > Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 > > Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. > History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. > Have not been watchful to notice when this page became > incomplete. > > I set IE8 to use "about:Tabs" as its home page. I wanted it to display > the recovery options that are present in that page so, for example, I > could elect to reload the last set of tabs when IE8 first loads. The > "about:Tabs" page will no longer display its useful content. Only a > portion of the web page gets painted but none of the recovery features, > like opening the last set of tabs. An error occurs when loading the > page saying: > > Webpage error details > Message: Element not found. > > Line: 144 > Char: 1 > Code: 0 > URI: res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm > > Line 144 has: > > <body id="newTabPage" onload="window.external.BuildNewTabPage(); > contentContainer.style.display='block';"> > > So when the page loads (its body), the onload event is triggered and the > BuildNewTabPage() method gets called. The about:Tabs page should look > similar to the image below: > > http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.m...bout-tabs1.png > or > http://apcmag.com/images/03NewTabs.jpg > or > > http://registry.cesabarre.com/Tweaks...age/error1.gif > > Alas, all that gets painted is the "What do you want to do next?" line, > a blank section, and a horizontal rule underneath which is a link to > "Learn more about ..." (which is a link to that same web page). > > I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no > add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. > > Since the resource (tabswelcome.htm web page) appears to come from > ieframe.dll, I looked around to see where it was. It is under > C:\Windows\System32. There are copies of this file elsewhere but are > for older versions, like under C:\Windows\IE8 (maybe that's used when > uninstalling IE8 and going back to the prior version of IE). I looked > in the registry to see how this DLL file was registered. That is, I > checked to see what path was listed for any "server" registry entry that > points at where to find the ieframe.dll file. All of them have the > C:\Windows\System32 path so that's the copy that should get used in any > reference to this DLL that doesn't include a path to it. The version of > ieframe.dll in C:\Windows\System32 is 8.00.60012.18777 and is 11,064,832 > bytes in size. > > I even ran "sfc /scannow" but the same version of ieframe.dll was left > in C:\Windows\System32. But then I rather expected that result since > this was the same version under the DLLCACHE folder from where the > backup copies are retrieved by the System File Checker utility. > > When I try to re-register the DLL file via: > > cd \winodws\system32 > regsvr32 ieframe.dll > > it errors with: > > RegSvr32 > DllRegisterServer in ieframe.dll failed. > Return code was: 0x80004001 > > DllRegister is an exported method of the DLL to define how to register > that library in the registry (i.e., it's an entry point in the DLL that > runs code to define how it gets registered). I tried de-registering it > (to then re-register it) but also get the same error. I even booted > into Window's Safe Mode but could not register it. I have a virtual > machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP-3 + Windows updates > (except for IE8 so IE7 still runs in that VM). I still could not > register ieframe.dll inside the test VM so I'm wondering what happens in > all those articles when users try to follow the advice to re-register > this DLL. It fails when I try to re-register it; however, registration > often involves adding definitions in the registry of where to find the > DLL (and perhaps define some functions for particular calls to it) and > my registry entries (that have paths specified to the ieframe.dll) all > point to the one located in C:\Windows\System32. > > I found in the registry where these About URLs are defined (about:home, > about:Tabs, etc) and the definitions there look good: > > Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs > Data items (and their values): > "NavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "DesktopItemNavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "NavigationCanceled"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "OfflineInformation"="res://ieframe.dll/offcancl.htm" > "Home"=dword:0000010e > "blank"="res://mshtml.dll/blank.htm" > "PostNotCached"="res://ieframe.dll/repost.htm" > "NoAdd-ons"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddon.htm" > "NoAdd-onsInfo"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddoninfo.htm" > "SecurityRisk"="res://ieframe.dll/securityatrisk.htm" > "Tabs"="res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm" > "InPrivate"="res://ieframe.dll/inprivate.htm" > > From searches, it appears the Tabs data item is correctly defined (as > opposed to malware that attempts to usurp these pages). I entered > "res://ieframe.dll/<page>.htm" in the Address Bar to test each of these > and all of them worked except for tabswelcome.htm which had the script > error reporting a missing element (which I'm guessing is the > BuildNewTabPage() method from some NewTabPageScripts.js script file). > > I don't know how to dig into a DLL to determine where it defines these > resources and what are their values (i.e., what should be their HTML > content). However, when I view the source for the about:Tabs page > display, nothing strikes me as missing. It appears that Javascript is > used to dynamically build the page. Line 144 (where the error is > reported) runs the window.external.BuildNewTabPage() method for the > onload event (when the page loads). I'm not sure where this function is > defined except that maybe it is in the .js Javascript file defined in > the <HEAD> section, as in: > > <script src="NewTabPageScripts.js" ...> > > Presumably this is yet another resource within ieframe.dll because I > cannot find this .js file anywhere on my drive. My guess is that the > BuildNetTabPage() method is used to dynamically construct all the > content on the about:Tabs page between the "What do you want to do > next?" line to the horizontal rule and "Learn more ..." lines. To make > sure scripting was enabled, I used web sites that test Javascript, like > http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html, and they > passed. So it's not that scripting was somehow disabled in IE8. > > I did poke around inside of the ieframe.dll.mui file (also under > C:\Windows\System32) and did find the HTML code for the TabsWelcome.htm > web page in there; however, the NewTabPageScripts.js script file where > this function is probably defined was not found in this .mui file. I > went searching through the contents of files for "NewTabPageScripts.js" > but got no hits. > > I ran out of ideas of where to dig next in trying to fix the about:tabs > page other than to try System Restore, seeing if IE8 will re-install > atop of itself (and possibly step atop of whatever is ailing it now), or > to walk back through incremental image backups to see when the problem > disappears. I could switch to using about:blank as the home page but > I'd like to get back the functionality of the about:tabs page (and also > because that is the page displayed when a new tab is opened). |
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Robert Aldwinckle
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"VanguardLH" <> wrote in message news:h460ga$udt$... > Windows XP Pro SP-3 > Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 > > Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. > History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. > Have not been watchful to notice when this page became > incomplete. Perhaps you re-registered shdocvw.dll's DllInstall recently? <eg> Ramesh has the answer... http://www.microsoft.com/communities...=en-us&m=1&p=1 (BING search for ramesh shdocvw "about:tabs" ) Also, I think that Kai's latest version of his repair tool incorporates that fix... http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=a...133&artlang=en .... > I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no > add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. Unfortunately it appears we were misinformed about what REIS does. Apparently it does not have the same effect as the old /ierereg was supposed to provide (which Kai's cmd file now does.) BTW one of Ramesh pages describes the diagnosis steps he used. I wasn't sure if this problem was fixed in IE8 or not. It looks as if your example is showing that it wasn't. FYI Robert --- |
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VanguardLH
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Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
> VanguardLH wrote ... >> >> Windows XP Pro SP-3 >> Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 >> >> Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. >> History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. >> Have not been watchful to notice when this page became >> incomplete. > > Perhaps you re-registered shdocvw.dll's DllInstall recently? <eg> > > Ramesh has the answer... > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities...=en-us&m=1&p=1 > > (BING search for > ramesh shdocvw "about:tabs" > ) > > Also, I think that Kai's latest version of his repair tool incorporates > that fix... > > http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=a...133&artlang=en > > ... >> I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no >> add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. > > Unfortunately it appears we were misinformed about what REIS does. > Apparently it does not have the same effect as the old /ierereg was > supposed to provide (which Kai's cmd file now does.) > > BTW one of Ramesh pages describes the diagnosis steps he used. > > I wasn't sure if this problem was fixed in IE8 or not. It looks as if > your example is showing that it wasn't. Thanks for that info. This should get archived in Google Groups so if I hit the problem again then I can see if re-registering shdocvw.dll or using the fix tool solves the problem. My Google searches were fruitless. I did the search for +"about:tabs" along with other terms but I wasn't finding any helpful articles. However, I never did a search where I included shdocvw.dll. I finally exhausted my patience with trying to dig into this problem that I decided to use the brute force method of restoring from image backups to find the latest one where the about:tabs page was working. See my other post (where I reply to myself as an update). Thanks for your help. |
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VanguardLH
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VanguardLH wrote:
> Windows XP Pro SP-3 > Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 > > Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. > History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. > Have not been watchful to notice when this page became > incomplete. > > I set IE8 to use "about:Tabs" as its home page. I wanted it to display > the recovery options that are present in that page so, for example, I > could elect to reload the last set of tabs when IE8 first loads. The > "about:Tabs" page will no longer display its useful content. Only a > portion of the web page gets painted but none of the recovery features, > like opening the last set of tabs. An error occurs when loading the > page saying: > > Webpage error details > Message: Element not found. > > Line: 144 > Char: 1 > Code: 0 > URI: res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm > > Line 144 has: > > <body id="newTabPage" onload="window.external.BuildNewTabPage(); > contentContainer.style.display='block';"> > > So when the page loads (its body), the onload event is triggered and the > BuildNewTabPage() method gets called. The about:Tabs page should look > similar to the image below: > > http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.m...bout-tabs1.png > or > http://apcmag.com/images/03NewTabs.jpg > or > http://registry.cesabarre.com/Tweaks...age/error1.gif > > Alas, all that gets painted is the "What do you want to do next?" line, > a blank section, and a horizontal rule underneath which is a link to > "Learn more about ..." (which is a link to that same web page). > > I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no > add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. > > Since the resource (tabswelcome.htm web page) appears to come from > ieframe.dll, I looked around to see where it was. It is under > C:\Windows\System32. There are copies of this file elsewhere but are > for older versions, like under C:\Windows\IE8 (maybe that's used when > uninstalling IE8 and going back to the prior version of IE). I looked > in the registry to see how this DLL file was registered. That is, I > checked to see what path was listed for any "server" registry entry that > points at where to find the ieframe.dll file. All of them have the > C:\Windows\System32 path so that's the copy that should get used in any > reference to this DLL that doesn't include a path to it. The version of > ieframe.dll in C:\Windows\System32 is 8.00.60012.18777 and is 11,064,832 > bytes in size. > > I even ran "sfc /scannow" but the same version of ieframe.dll was left > in C:\Windows\System32. But then I rather expected that result since > this was the same version under the DLLCACHE folder from where the > backup copies are retrieved by the System File Checker utility. > > When I try to re-register the DLL file via: > > cd \winodws\system32 > regsvr32 ieframe.dll > > it errors with: > > RegSvr32 > DllRegisterServer in ieframe.dll failed. > Return code was: 0x80004001 > > DllRegister is an exported method of the DLL to define how to register > that library in the registry (i.e., it's an entry point in the DLL that > runs code to define how it gets registered). I tried de-registering it > (to then re-register it) but also get the same error. I even booted > into Window's Safe Mode but could not register it. I have a virtual > machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP-3 + Windows updates > (except for IE8 so IE7 still runs in that VM). I still could not > register ieframe.dll inside the test VM so I'm wondering what happens in > all those articles when users try to follow the advice to re-register > this DLL. It fails when I try to re-register it; however, registration > often involves adding definitions in the registry of where to find the > DLL (and perhaps define some functions for particular calls to it) and > my registry entries (that have paths specified to the ieframe.dll) all > point to the one located in C:\Windows\System32. > > I found in the registry where these About URLs are defined (about:home, > about:Tabs, etc) and the definitions there look good: > > Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs > Data items (and their values): > "NavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "DesktopItemNavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "NavigationCanceled"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "OfflineInformation"="res://ieframe.dll/offcancl.htm" > "Home"=dword:0000010e > "blank"="res://mshtml.dll/blank.htm" > "PostNotCached"="res://ieframe.dll/repost.htm" > "NoAdd-ons"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddon.htm" > "NoAdd-onsInfo"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddoninfo.htm" > "SecurityRisk"="res://ieframe.dll/securityatrisk.htm" > "Tabs"="res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm" > "InPrivate"="res://ieframe.dll/inprivate.htm" > > From searches, it appears the Tabs data item is correctly defined (as > opposed to malware that attempts to usurp these pages). I entered > "res://ieframe.dll/<page>.htm" in the Address Bar to test each of these > and all of them worked except for tabswelcome.htm which had the script > error reporting a missing element (which I'm guessing is the > BuildNewTabPage() method from some NewTabPageScripts.js script file). > > I don't know how to dig into a DLL to determine where it defines these > resources and what are their values (i.e., what should be their HTML > content). However, when I view the source for the about:Tabs page > display, nothing strikes me as missing. It appears that Javascript is > used to dynamically build the page. Line 144 (where the error is > reported) runs the window.external.BuildNewTabPage() method for the > onload event (when the page loads). I'm not sure where this function is > defined except that maybe it is in the .js Javascript file defined in > the <HEAD> section, as in: > > <script src="NewTabPageScripts.js" ...> > > Presumably this is yet another resource within ieframe.dll because I > cannot find this .js file anywhere on my drive. My guess is that the > BuildNetTabPage() method is used to dynamically construct all the > content on the about:Tabs page between the "What do you want to do > next?" line to the horizontal rule and "Learn more ..." lines. To make > sure scripting was enabled, I used web sites that test Javascript, like > http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html, and they > passed. So it's not that scripting was somehow disabled in IE8. > > I did poke around inside of the ieframe.dll.mui file (also under > C:\Windows\System32) and did find the HTML code for the TabsWelcome.htm > web page in there; however, the NewTabPageScripts.js script file where > this function is probably defined was not found in this .mui file. I > went searching through the contents of files for "NewTabPageScripts.js" > but got no hits. > > I ran out of ideas of where to dig next in trying to fix the about:tabs > page other than to try System Restore, seeing if IE8 will re-install > atop of itself (and possibly step atop of whatever is ailing it now), or > to walk back through incremental image backups to see when the problem > disappears. I could switch to using about:blank as the home page but > I'd like to get back the functionality of the about:tabs page (and also > because that is the page displayed when a new tab is opened). Well, I gave up trying to resolve the problem. I suppose that I could have tried reinstalling IE8 to see if it would have stepped atop whatever was the problem but I decided to instead restore using backup images. I tried using System Restore. There were over a dozen in the last 10 days (more going back further) but they didn't help. Once I go to going back 10 days, I decided that the restored settings & files would start to get too much out of sync with my software installs and system and app tweaks. So I went to restoring from my backup images. I do full image backups every Monday and incremental image backups every day (obviously the incremental done just after the full on Monday won't have much in it). I have Acronis TrueImage and it works very nicely. The backups are saved in a hidden partition on a 2nd hard disk. I had some guesses of what might've caused the problem, like when I installed the Google Toolbar or the IEPro add-on but going back before those installs did not find an image without an incomplete about:tabs page. I'd go back to each full backup and check if the about:tabs page was okay. That took me all the way back to June 29. I tried to jump to that week's Friday incremental but that didn't work. In all, I had to test 11 restores from backup images to reinstate the OS partition before I found out that June 29's image was okay but June 30's image had the bad about:tabs page. There's no convenient differencing tool in TrueImage to see what folders or files changed between the full backup on June 29 and the incremental backup on June 30. Even if there was, the problem could be in registry settings or within some files and I wasn't going to to a difference on all those files (that were different between those 2 backups) even if TrueImage provided such a tool. So I restored back to the June 29 full image backup and got back a usable about:tabs page. I then restored my data files, like the .pst for Outlook and the data subfolder for Dialog, from Monday's full backup. I then had to uninstall programs that I had previously uninstalled June 29 and installed the other ones (except I don't want the Google stuff) along with doing the Windows updates available since that date. I do an incremental backup, do a few of these changes, and retest that the about:tabs page still works. Sure glad I do daily image backups. See my other reply (to myself to provide an update post). |
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VanguardLH
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rob^_^ wrote:
> window.external.BuildNewTabPage() > > Is an external function. Check your versions of IExplore.exe and IEUser.dll > in the Internet Explorer folder. iexplore.exe Version = 8.00.6001.18702 (mentioned below) This is the version listed both in the Help->About menu and also when I right-click on the C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe file to look at its Properties under the Version tab and select Product Version. ieuser.dll Version = > Possibly have you been running another MSIE browser like Maxthon? or Nope, never. Don't like those wrapper apps. > Do you have v6 of the Google toolbar installed and have not disabled/enabled > all of its components (toolbar and bho components?) That's what I thought might be the cause. I did install the latest Google Toolbar and was using that. However, when I reverted to a backup image of before when I installed the Google Toolbar (and even before the earlier install of Google Chrome the day before), the problem remained. In fact, resolving the problem had be restoring to a backup image that was over a week before I installed anything Google. Thanks for responding. If you look in my other post, I eventually gave up on trying to resolve the problem and instead went through many restores of backup images of the OS partition until I got to one where the about:tabs page would work. I've looked at the folder and files listing for that day's image backup (where about:tabs works) and the next day's image (where about:tabs is incomplete) but couldn't see anything obvious as to what changed from one day to the next. Thanks for trying. Thankfully I do full image backups every Monday and incremental image backups every other day so I can walk back through the images to find one before the problem appeared. > "VanguardLH" <> wrote in message > news:h460ga$udt$... >> Windows XP Pro SP-3 >> Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 >> >> Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. >> History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. >> Have not been watchful to notice when this page became >> incomplete. >> >> I set IE8 to use "about:Tabs" as its home page. I wanted it to display >> the recovery options that are present in that page so, for example, I >> could elect to reload the last set of tabs when IE8 first loads. The >> "about:Tabs" page will no longer display its useful content. Only a >> portion of the web page gets painted but none of the recovery features, >> like opening the last set of tabs. An error occurs when loading the >> page saying: >> >> Webpage error details >> Message: Element not found. >> >> Line: 144 >> Char: 1 >> Code: 0 >> URI: res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm >> >> Line 144 has: >> >> <body id="newTabPage" onload="window.external.BuildNewTabPage(); >> contentContainer.style.display='block';"> >> >> So when the page loads (its body), the onload event is triggered and the >> BuildNewTabPage() method gets called. The about:Tabs page should look >> similar to the image below: >> >> http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.m...bout-tabs1.png >> or >> http://apcmag.com/images/03NewTabs.jpg >> or >> >> http://registry.cesabarre.com/Tweaks...age/error1.gif >> >> Alas, all that gets painted is the "What do you want to do next?" line, >> a blank section, and a horizontal rule underneath which is a link to >> "Learn more about ..." (which is a link to that same web page). >> >> I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no >> add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. >> >> Since the resource (tabswelcome.htm web page) appears to come from >> ieframe.dll, I looked around to see where it was. It is under >> C:\Windows\System32. There are copies of this file elsewhere but are >> for older versions, like under C:\Windows\IE8 (maybe that's used when >> uninstalling IE8 and going back to the prior version of IE). I looked >> in the registry to see how this DLL file was registered. That is, I >> checked to see what path was listed for any "server" registry entry that >> points at where to find the ieframe.dll file. All of them have the >> C:\Windows\System32 path so that's the copy that should get used in any >> reference to this DLL that doesn't include a path to it. The version of >> ieframe.dll in C:\Windows\System32 is 8.00.60012.18777 and is 11,064,832 >> bytes in size. >> >> I even ran "sfc /scannow" but the same version of ieframe.dll was left >> in C:\Windows\System32. But then I rather expected that result since >> this was the same version under the DLLCACHE folder from where the >> backup copies are retrieved by the System File Checker utility. >> >> When I try to re-register the DLL file via: >> >> cd \winodws\system32 >> regsvr32 ieframe.dll >> >> it errors with: >> >> RegSvr32 >> DllRegisterServer in ieframe.dll failed. >> Return code was: 0x80004001 >> >> DllRegister is an exported method of the DLL to define how to register >> that library in the registry (i.e., it's an entry point in the DLL that >> runs code to define how it gets registered). I tried de-registering it >> (to then re-register it) but also get the same error. I even booted >> into Window's Safe Mode but could not register it. I have a virtual >> machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP-3 + Windows updates >> (except for IE8 so IE7 still runs in that VM). I still could not >> register ieframe.dll inside the test VM so I'm wondering what happens in >> all those articles when users try to follow the advice to re-register >> this DLL. It fails when I try to re-register it; however, registration >> often involves adding definitions in the registry of where to find the >> DLL (and perhaps define some functions for particular calls to it) and >> my registry entries (that have paths specified to the ieframe.dll) all >> point to the one located in C:\Windows\System32. >> >> I found in the registry where these About URLs are defined (about:home, >> about:Tabs, etc) and the definitions there look good: >> >> Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs >> Data items (and their values): >> "NavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" >> "DesktopItemNavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" >> "NavigationCanceled"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" >> "OfflineInformation"="res://ieframe.dll/offcancl.htm" >> "Home"=dword:0000010e >> "blank"="res://mshtml.dll/blank.htm" >> "PostNotCached"="res://ieframe.dll/repost.htm" >> "NoAdd-ons"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddon.htm" >> "NoAdd-onsInfo"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddoninfo.htm" >> "SecurityRisk"="res://ieframe.dll/securityatrisk.htm" >> "Tabs"="res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm" >> "InPrivate"="res://ieframe.dll/inprivate.htm" >> >> From searches, it appears the Tabs data item is correctly defined (as >> opposed to malware that attempts to usurp these pages). I entered >> "res://ieframe.dll/<page>.htm" in the Address Bar to test each of these >> and all of them worked except for tabswelcome.htm which had the script >> error reporting a missing element (which I'm guessing is the >> BuildNewTabPage() method from some NewTabPageScripts.js script file). >> >> I don't know how to dig into a DLL to determine where it defines these >> resources and what are their values (i.e., what should be their HTML >> content). However, when I view the source for the about:Tabs page >> display, nothing strikes me as missing. It appears that Javascript is >> used to dynamically build the page. Line 144 (where the error is >> reported) runs the window.external.BuildNewTabPage() method for the >> onload event (when the page loads). I'm not sure where this function is >> defined except that maybe it is in the .js Javascript file defined in >> the <HEAD> section, as in: >> >> <script src="NewTabPageScripts.js" ...> >> >> Presumably this is yet another resource within ieframe.dll because I >> cannot find this .js file anywhere on my drive. My guess is that the >> BuildNetTabPage() method is used to dynamically construct all the >> content on the about:Tabs page between the "What do you want to do >> next?" line to the horizontal rule and "Learn more ..." lines. To make >> sure scripting was enabled, I used web sites that test Javascript, like >> http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html, and they >> passed. So it's not that scripting was somehow disabled in IE8. >> >> I did poke around inside of the ieframe.dll.mui file (also under >> C:\Windows\System32) and did find the HTML code for the TabsWelcome.htm >> web page in there; however, the NewTabPageScripts.js script file where >> this function is probably defined was not found in this .mui file. I >> went searching through the contents of files for "NewTabPageScripts.js" >> but got no hits. >> >> I ran out of ideas of where to dig next in trying to fix the about:tabs >> page other than to try System Restore, seeing if IE8 will re-install >> atop of itself (and possibly step atop of whatever is ailing it now), or >> to walk back through incremental image backups to see when the problem >> disappears. I could switch to using about:blank as the home page but >> I'd like to get back the functionality of the about:tabs page (and also >> because that is the page displayed when a new tab is opened). |
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> ieuser.dll > Version = Forgot to come back to this to enter the data. I did a file search while typing in the rest. No such file was found on my host. |
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> ... See my other reply (to myself to provide an update post). Ignore that part. Was supposed to go in a different reply. |
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I'm having same issue too, but found something weird Try this "interesting"
trick i discovered ad see if it works for you. After clicking "new tab" button goto tools button and select "developers console (or just hit F12) select script tab and select "start debugginng" after the error is encountered hit the continue script button. on mine the missing page features then appeared. "VanguardLH" wrote: > Windows XP Pro SP-3 > Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 > > Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. > History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. > Have not been watchful to notice when this page became > incomplete. > > I set IE8 to use "about:Tabs" as its home page. I wanted it to display > the recovery options that are present in that page so, for example, I > could elect to reload the last set of tabs when IE8 first loads. The > "about:Tabs" page will no longer display its useful content. Only a > portion of the web page gets painted but none of the recovery features, > like opening the last set of tabs. An error occurs when loading the > page saying: > > Webpage error details > Message: Element not found. > > Line: 144 > Char: 1 > Code: 0 > URI: res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm > > Line 144 has: > > <body id="newTabPage" onload="window.external.BuildNewTabPage(); > contentContainer.style.display='block';"> > > So when the page loads (its body), the onload event is triggered and the > BuildNewTabPage() method gets called. The about:Tabs page should look > similar to the image below: > > http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.m...bout-tabs1.png > or > http://apcmag.com/images/03NewTabs.jpg > or > http://registry.cesabarre.com/Tweaks...age/error1.gif > > Alas, all that gets painted is the "What do you want to do next?" line, > a blank section, and a horizontal rule underneath which is a link to > "Learn more about ..." (which is a link to that same web page). > > I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no > add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. > > Since the resource (tabswelcome.htm web page) appears to come from > ieframe.dll, I looked around to see where it was. It is under > C:\Windows\System32. There are copies of this file elsewhere but are > for older versions, like under C:\Windows\IE8 (maybe that's used when > uninstalling IE8 and going back to the prior version of IE). I looked > in the registry to see how this DLL file was registered. That is, I > checked to see what path was listed for any "server" registry entry that > points at where to find the ieframe.dll file. All of them have the > C:\Windows\System32 path so that's the copy that should get used in any > reference to this DLL that doesn't include a path to it. The version of > ieframe.dll in C:\Windows\System32 is 8.00.60012.18777 and is 11,064,832 > bytes in size. > > I even ran "sfc /scannow" but the same version of ieframe.dll was left > in C:\Windows\System32. But then I rather expected that result since > this was the same version under the DLLCACHE folder from where the > backup copies are retrieved by the System File Checker utility. > > When I try to re-register the DLL file via: > > cd \winodws\system32 > regsvr32 ieframe.dll > > it errors with: > > RegSvr32 > DllRegisterServer in ieframe.dll failed. > Return code was: 0x80004001 > > DllRegister is an exported method of the DLL to define how to register > that library in the registry (i.e., it's an entry point in the DLL that > runs code to define how it gets registered). I tried de-registering it > (to then re-register it) but also get the same error. I even booted > into Window's Safe Mode but could not register it. I have a virtual > machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP-3 + Windows updates > (except for IE8 so IE7 still runs in that VM). I still could not > register ieframe.dll inside the test VM so I'm wondering what happens in > all those articles when users try to follow the advice to re-register > this DLL. It fails when I try to re-register it; however, registration > often involves adding definitions in the registry of where to find the > DLL (and perhaps define some functions for particular calls to it) and > my registry entries (that have paths specified to the ieframe.dll) all > point to the one located in C:\Windows\System32. > > I found in the registry where these About URLs are defined (about:home, > about:Tabs, etc) and the definitions there look good: > > Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs > Data items (and their values): > "NavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "DesktopItemNavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "NavigationCanceled"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" > "OfflineInformation"="res://ieframe.dll/offcancl.htm" > "Home"=dword:0000010e > "blank"="res://mshtml.dll/blank.htm" > "PostNotCached"="res://ieframe.dll/repost.htm" > "NoAdd-ons"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddon.htm" > "NoAdd-onsInfo"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddoninfo.htm" > "SecurityRisk"="res://ieframe.dll/securityatrisk.htm" > "Tabs"="res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm" > "InPrivate"="res://ieframe.dll/inprivate.htm" > > From searches, it appears the Tabs data item is correctly defined (as > opposed to malware that attempts to usurp these pages). I entered > "res://ieframe.dll/<page>.htm" in the Address Bar to test each of these > and all of them worked except for tabswelcome.htm which had the script > error reporting a missing element (which I'm guessing is the > BuildNewTabPage() method from some NewTabPageScripts.js script file). > > I don't know how to dig into a DLL to determine where it defines these > resources and what are their values (i.e., what should be their HTML > content). However, when I view the source for the about:Tabs page > display, nothing strikes me as missing. It appears that Javascript is > used to dynamically build the page. Line 144 (where the error is > reported) runs the window.external.BuildNewTabPage() method for the > onload event (when the page loads). I'm not sure where this function is > defined except that maybe it is in the .js Javascript file defined in > the <HEAD> section, as in: > > <script src="NewTabPageScripts.js" ...> > > Presumably this is yet another resource within ieframe.dll because I > cannot find this .js file anywhere on my drive. My guess is that the > BuildNetTabPage() method is used to dynamically construct all the > content on the about:Tabs page between the "What do you want to do > next?" line to the horizontal rule and "Learn more ..." lines. To make > sure scripting was enabled, I used web sites that test Javascript, like > http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html, and they > passed. So it's not that scripting was somehow disabled in IE8. > > I did poke around inside of the ieframe.dll.mui file (also under > C:\Windows\System32) and did find the HTML code for the TabsWelcome.htm > web page in there; however, the NewTabPageScripts.js script file where > this function is probably defined was not found in this .mui file. I > went searching through the contents of files for "NewTabPageScripts.js" > but got no hits. > > I ran out of ideas of where to dig next in trying to fix the about:tabs > page other than to try System Restore, seeing if IE8 will re-install > atop of itself (and possibly step atop of whatever is ailing it now), or > to walk back through incremental image backups to see when the problem > disappears. I could switch to using about:blank as the home page but > I'd like to get back the functionality of the about:tabs page (and also > because that is the page displayed when a new tab is opened). > |
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Hi,
And in no-Addons Mode? Are you seeing addon artifacts? Hint - the Google toolbar v6 has a proprietary toolbar:newtab protocol. Regards. "Cybot" <> wrote in message news:E96EB476-AFF1-4591-B881-... > I'm having same issue too, but found something weird Try this > "interesting" > trick i discovered ad see if it works for you. > > After clicking "new tab" button goto tools button and select "developers > console (or just hit F12) > > select script tab and select "start debugginng" > after the error is encountered hit the continue script button. on mine the > missing page features then appeared. > > "VanguardLH" wrote: > >> Windows XP Pro SP-3 >> Internet Explorer 8.00.6001.18702 >> >> Problem: "about:Tabs" page has lost all of its functionality. >> History: New problem (in last week). This page did display okay before. >> Have not been watchful to notice when this page became >> incomplete. >> >> I set IE8 to use "about:Tabs" as its home page. I wanted it to display >> the recovery options that are present in that page so, for example, I >> could elect to reload the last set of tabs when IE8 first loads. The >> "about:Tabs" page will no longer display its useful content. Only a >> portion of the web page gets painted but none of the recovery features, >> like opening the last set of tabs. An error occurs when loading the >> page saying: >> >> Webpage error details >> Message: Element not found. >> >> Line: 144 >> Char: 1 >> Code: 0 >> URI: res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm >> >> Line 144 has: >> >> <body id="newTabPage" onload="window.external.BuildNewTabPage(); >> contentContainer.style.display='block';"> >> >> So when the page loads (its body), the onload event is triggered and the >> BuildNewTabPage() method gets called. The about:Tabs page should look >> similar to the image below: >> >> http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.m...bout-tabs1.png >> or >> http://apcmag.com/images/03NewTabs.jpg >> or >> >> http://registry.cesabarre.com/Tweaks...age/error1.gif >> >> Alas, all that gets painted is the "What do you want to do next?" line, >> a blank section, and a horizontal rule underneath which is a link to >> "Learn more about ..." (which is a link to that same web page). >> >> I already tried resetting IE8 (advanced options) and running it in no >> add-ons mode. No luck. Rebooting into Windows' Safe Mode didn't help. >> >> Since the resource (tabswelcome.htm web page) appears to come from >> ieframe.dll, I looked around to see where it was. It is under >> C:\Windows\System32. There are copies of this file elsewhere but are >> for older versions, like under C:\Windows\IE8 (maybe that's used when >> uninstalling IE8 and going back to the prior version of IE). I looked >> in the registry to see how this DLL file was registered. That is, I >> checked to see what path was listed for any "server" registry entry that >> points at where to find the ieframe.dll file. All of them have the >> C:\Windows\System32 path so that's the copy that should get used in any >> reference to this DLL that doesn't include a path to it. The version of >> ieframe.dll in C:\Windows\System32 is 8.00.60012.18777 and is 11,064,832 >> bytes in size. >> >> I even ran "sfc /scannow" but the same version of ieframe.dll was left >> in C:\Windows\System32. But then I rather expected that result since >> this was the same version under the DLLCACHE folder from where the >> backup copies are retrieved by the System File Checker utility. >> >> When I try to re-register the DLL file via: >> >> cd \winodws\system32 >> regsvr32 ieframe.dll >> >> it errors with: >> >> RegSvr32 >> DllRegisterServer in ieframe.dll failed. >> Return code was: 0x80004001 >> >> DllRegister is an exported method of the DLL to define how to register >> that library in the registry (i.e., it's an entry point in the DLL that >> runs code to define how it gets registered). I tried de-registering it >> (to then re-register it) but also get the same error. I even booted >> into Window's Safe Mode but could not register it. I have a virtual >> machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP-3 + Windows updates >> (except for IE8 so IE7 still runs in that VM). I still could not >> register ieframe.dll inside the test VM so I'm wondering what happens in >> all those articles when users try to follow the advice to re-register >> this DLL. It fails when I try to re-register it; however, registration >> often involves adding definitions in the registry of where to find the >> DLL (and perhaps define some functions for particular calls to it) and >> my registry entries (that have paths specified to the ieframe.dll) all >> point to the one located in C:\Windows\System32. >> >> I found in the registry where these About URLs are defined (about:home, >> about:Tabs, etc) and the definitions there look good: >> >> Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs >> Data items (and their values): >> "NavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" >> "DesktopItemNavigationFailure"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" >> "NavigationCanceled"="res://ieframe.dll/navcancl.htm" >> "OfflineInformation"="res://ieframe.dll/offcancl.htm" >> "Home"=dword:0000010e >> "blank"="res://mshtml.dll/blank.htm" >> "PostNotCached"="res://ieframe.dll/repost.htm" >> "NoAdd-ons"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddon.htm" >> "NoAdd-onsInfo"="res://ieframe.dll/noaddoninfo.htm" >> "SecurityRisk"="res://ieframe.dll/securityatrisk.htm" >> "Tabs"="res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm" >> "InPrivate"="res://ieframe.dll/inprivate.htm" >> >> From searches, it appears the Tabs data item is correctly defined (as >> opposed to malware that attempts to usurp these pages). I entered >> "res://ieframe.dll/<page>.htm" in the Address Bar to test each of these >> and all of them worked except for tabswelcome.htm which had the script >> error reporting a missing element (which I'm guessing is the >> BuildNewTabPage() method from some NewTabPageScripts.js script file). >> >> I don't know how to dig into a DLL to determine where it defines these >> resources and what are their values (i.e., what should be their HTML >> content). However, when I view the source for the about:Tabs page >> display, nothing strikes me as missing. It appears that Javascript is >> used to dynamically build the page. Line 144 (where the error is >> reported) runs the window.external.BuildNewTabPage() method for the >> onload event (when the page loads). I'm not sure where this function is >> defined except that maybe it is in the .js Javascript file defined in >> the <HEAD> section, as in: >> >> <script src="NewTabPageScripts.js" ...> >> >> Presumably this is yet another resource within ieframe.dll because I >> cannot find this .js file anywhere on my drive. My guess is that the >> BuildNetTabPage() method is used to dynamically construct all the >> content on the about:Tabs page between the "What do you want to do >> next?" line to the horizontal rule and "Learn more ..." lines. To make >> sure scripting was enabled, I used web sites that test Javascript, like >> http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html, and they >> passed. So it's not that scripting was somehow disabled in IE8. >> >> I did poke around inside of the ieframe.dll.mui file (also under >> C:\Windows\System32) and did find the HTML code for the TabsWelcome.htm >> web page in there; however, the NewTabPageScripts.js script file where >> this function is probably defined was not found in this .mui file. I >> went searching through the contents of files for "NewTabPageScripts.js" >> but got no hits. >> >> I ran out of ideas of where to dig next in trying to fix the about:tabs >> page other than to try System Restore, seeing if IE8 will re-install >> atop of itself (and possibly step atop of whatever is ailing it now), or >> to walk back through incremental image backups to see when the problem >> disappears. I could switch to using about:blank as the home page but >> I'd like to get back the functionality of the about:tabs page (and also >> because that is the page displayed when a new tab is opened). >> |
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