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Cannot go to Web sites

Apr 14, 2005 12:26PM PDT

Win XP Home
SP2 and all updates
MSIE6

My daughter's computer suddenly will only allow her to access a few sites, Disney and such. All others bring up a window that says:
"Sorry Control Advisor will not allow you to see this site." (It will not even bring up Google)

There is a line to type in a pasword, but she insists she never had a password on MSIE 6. Nothing we type there is accepted. The computer is in use by her, her husband and three children who all deny any guilt in the situation. I downloaded Fire Fox for an interim fix, but need to get the problem with MSIE solved. A system restore back to when she said all worked well did no good

Suggestions anyone?

Thanks

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(NT) (NT) That should read Content Advisor---not Control Advisor
Apr 14, 2005 12:43PM PDT
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Re: Content advisor password
Apr 14, 2005 9:18PM PDT
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/155609/en-us states that a Microsoft support professional can tell you what to do. Just call (and presumably pay).

More on Content Advisor, by the way, in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310401&sd=tech
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/security/contentadv/config.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/ie/6/all/reskit/en-us/part2/c05ie6rk.mspx

Maybe somebody else knows the trick Microsoft will tell you, but I don't.

Hope this helps.


Kees
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Many thanks for the links, but
Apr 15, 2005 2:22AM PDT

Unless some kind soul out there knows the answer we may have to pay MS for it. I didn't get much from a Google search except that it is a most difficult problem to resolve---and that I had already learned!

FireFox seems to work nicely---I'm going to try to talk my daughter into using that, but hubby and the kids scream at the thought of learning a new browser. MSIE seems to work still for MS updates.

Thanks again

Cletus

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I find ...
Apr 16, 2005 5:47AM PDT

my son (but he is rather computer-savvy) to easily adapt to Firefox at 'his' XP computer. My wife didn't yet try because it doesn't run satisfactory on 'our' Win 95 machine. After all, most you do is clicking and typing an url in the address bar, and that's the same. The change from "favorite" to "bookmark" is do-able, I should say.

Good luck,


Kees

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Try this
Apr 16, 2005 11:02AM PDT
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Thanks--My first attempt to work in the Registry, but it--
Apr 19, 2005 7:10AM PDT

went well and the problem was solved.

I appreciate your valuable help--

Cletus