IE Cumulative Breaks Me Tours - How to Fix?

[Eck]

A mysterious problem has reappeared from my past.

A year or so ago I had been running Windows Me and after applying a WU Internet Explorer Cumulative Update all my Windows Me Tours ceased to function. The main Millenium Edition Preview Tour presents a javascript error message then just displays a large white box where the tour should be running.

The other tours can usually be accessed through Help and Support, but these links open to an Internet Explorer "Cannot display page" screen instead of opening the tours.

Apparently Microsoft has found these scripts to be dangerous and so has disabled them.

This time, I had manually applied all the updates through the MDGx website and this problem did not occur.

However, Microsoft just released a new IE Cumulative update and I applied it through Windows Update. Sure enough, all my tours are gone again.

Personally, I'd rather have the tours and depend on my Virus Scanner's Script Stopper to pop up and ask me whether I want to run it. See, that's the way it worked before the IE update. I would click the link to the tour and the virus scanner would pop up warning me that a script was trying to run. I would allow it. Easy. If something came from the web I could just click the scanner selection to not allow it. That's pretty safe.

Does anyone know what is turned off that causes this? I'd like to switch it back on, if possible.

If it were just the tour's I'd be inclined to let it go, but some of my help files and about pages in programs are now behaving the same way. For example, my Project64 emulator's about page will not function. I guess it uses some form of javascript. I just get a blank box and have to end task on the program.

I'd rather be less secure and have stuff work.

Any ideas on how to fix?

[Eck]

Well, thank pitchforks and pointy ears Spock, it's fixed!

I went browsing through all the old Windows Me topics at the Cnet Help forum until I found my old thread where Mr. Proffit and I were trying to solve this.

I never did fix it at the time, but tried the same stuff again this time and it worked!

First I toggled Disable Script Debugging and Display a notification about every script error a couple of times, ending with what was there originally, which was Disable Script Debugging checked and Display a notification unchecked.

That didn't fix it.

So I redownloaded Windows Scripting 5.6 and applied that update again. That had been already installed, but something in the Internet Explorer Cumulative Update apparently messes with something in it.

I rebooted and found that all the Preview video's and tour's now work.

I'm pretty surprised since I tried these same steps long ago and they hadn't worked then.

All fixed!

Thanks for tuning in.

Edited August 10, 2005 by Eck