IE8 - cannot open certain pages help!

[sandeep2504]

hopefully someone knows the answer to this.

IE8 is playing up on our vanilla network.

When you try to reply to an email in web outlook (this opens a new window) and try to click on links on certain sites all you receive it a blank white page and the page doesnt load and just sits there.



This is only affecting computers in a certain AD OU and only started last week Monday and it doesnt matter if you login as an administrator you still cant reply to emails.

IE was deployed via a Windows Update ages ago and these problem only started last week monday.

i have tried the following without success:

reset internet explorer settings to default
upgrading pc to Windows XP SP3
moving computers out of the AD OU to another OU
checked windows updates - none were applied recently
checked group policies and they are the same policies which are applied to the working computers
some software was removed from the OU (flash 7 and Adobe Reader 8.11) recently but i dont see it causing the problem
there are no relevant messages in event log

i am about to try reinstalling IE8.

the only workaround at the moment is to install FireFox.

Can anyone think of anything or a reason why??

[danrhodes]

Do an upgrade to Mozilla!

[danrhodes]

Why do I get negative rep when you yoursel fsuggested that an upgrade to Mozilla Firefox fixed the issue???

Cheers

[EduTech]

Under the Security Zone for IE in Internet Options, there is a category called Miscellaneous. The option to Allow META REFRESH should be enabled. If you disable it the pages probably wont load.

See if that helps,

James

@danrhodes - maybe it was because it was kind of unhelpful, and could of taken the thread way off topic. (just a thought)

[sandeep2504]

Why do I get negative rep when you yoursel fsuggested that an upgrade to Mozilla Firefox fixed the issue???

Cheers

It wasn't me who gave you neg rep though?

I fixed this by reinstalling IE8.

[danrhodes]

It wasn't me who gave you neg rep though?

I fixed this by reinstalling IE8.

Glad it's fixed

[bossman]

@sandeep2504:

Not firefox then hehe!!

[sandeep2504]

@sandeep2504:

Not firefox then hehe!!

I'm sorry... i dont understand