Hi Philip,
Off Topic - I have had the opposite problem. Running sandboxed IE3 or 4
versions on Vista all quirks and standards web pages look like junk...
These are not tutorials for MS Image Composer by chance? (still my favorite
image editor)
Can you provide a snippet of the top 10 lines of markup from the top of
these html files?
I would expect that they start with <script> blocks instead of <html>, in
which case they would make a standards compliant browser like IE8 choke.
What you can try, to get IE8 to open these old html files is
(Warning these settings may make IE8 go into an infinite loop. You will have
to hot restart (PC Reset button) out of it.)
Tools>Internet Options - Advanced tab
uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions" (reset this setting to your
original settings when finished)
uncheck "Enable automatic crash recovery"
uncheck "Automatically recover from page layout errors with compatibility
view"
check "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer" (Security
section of the Advanced tab)
On the Security tab, Internet Zone, (these security zone settings are
optional, they may or may not have a bearing)
Disable "Active Scripting"
save your settings and restart IE. !important (also). Do not display the IE8
Developer Tool (F12) while you have these pages loaded with the above
settings. It is bound to crash and probably freeze your PC.
!important (very, very, very important) change these settings back once you
have tried to load your legacy pages.
Tip. Just press the "Restore advanced settings" button on the Advanced tab
of Internet Options.
You can of coarse try another browser. The latest FX version is the most
likely one for the job, Chrome, probably, definitely not. (do not use the
IEtabs FX extension though to view your pages in FX).
I've notice you have an AOL email. If you have the AOL browser installed,
then there is nothing you can do to get IE installed on the same machine to
load these legacy files (the AOL browser adds a custom security zone to IE's
settings, but does not remove it when it is uninstalled.) The details of why
this is a show-stopper are too complicated to go into here.)
If you have Visual Studio or Expression Web installed (there are 60 day free
trials available from downloads.microsoft.com) then you can open the legacy
pages in these IDE's to edit them and remove any invalid markup. You need an
understanding of web standards and experience in using MS Developer products
with Intellisense (tm). The built in error reporting in these products tells
you what changes you have to make in order to make your legacy pages
standards compliant.
The fix required may be as simple as moving your <script> blocks to within
the <head> or <body> blocks.
Reviewing my post I think the Expression Web path is the way to go. You
could try one of the HTML communities for cheap coding resources to convert
the files for you. IF its the MS Image Composer help files, I can do it for
you with my copies. I have it installed on both my Vista and Win7 machines.
Regards.
"Philip K" <PhilipK@aol/com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everybody,
> 1. I have Vista Home Premium and Internet Explorer v 8. I never set
> anything about users or administrators since I am the only one using this
> computer.
> 2. I have many old graphics tutorials in HTM format which I downloaded
> some
> years ago when I was using Windows 98. They opened in Windows 98.
> 3. I can't open them with Vista. If I use FILE > OPEN in Internet
> Explorer, I get the HTML code. If I double click on the file in Windows
> Explorer, I get a message saying that Windows Internet Explorer is not
> responding.
> 4. I have a similar problem with HTM files which I have recently
> downloaded from the internet news groups.
> Are there some settings or updates to correct this problem.
> Thanking you
> Phil
>
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