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2. Iexplore.exe is basically a wrapper program for two browser ActiveX controls: Shdocvw.dll (also called the WebBrowser Control) and Mshtml.dll which provide all of the functionality of the browser. Embedded within Shdocvw.dll and certain other ?.dll files are several informational HTML pages. These pages are stored in this way to reduce the number of files actually included within an Internet Explorer package to prevent the need for IE to maintain HTML files and to provide certain error messages during its use. To access the HTML pages, the res:// (resource) command is used with an ?.dll file name and the name for the HTML page to be loaded. The res:// command will load an HTML resource from a specified ?.dll file. Messages of this sort either are specified in the following two registry keys as an example. Users may even edit the key information contained prior to the last period and following the last back-slash in these example to cause the displayed information to be anything they want:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\AboutURLs
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main
res://shdocvw.dll/navcancl.htm - an information page appears when the user gets a failed connection to a URL. The many types of connection errors include proxy server errors and invalid URLs (Action cancelled)
res://shdocvw.dll/offcancl.htm - an informational error appears when the user tries to view in offline mode a page that is not available in the cache (Action cancelled)
res://shdocvw.dll/dsnerror.htm - an informational error appears when a connection to the Web has been broken or URL address cannot be resolved (Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet Explorer)
Note: URLs of this sort may be typed in the Run line, or Address bar to open the resource provided the same operating system is used.
a. Technically, these types of reported messages -- particularly if they are simply a notice in the Status Line of the browser, are not indicative of finding a solution since it's nothing more than an IE page rendering, such as the "IE's friendly 404 error - The page cannot be found!" page (click to see a screen shot) that everybody is familiar with.
b. A possible solution would be to click Tools, Internet Options, Programs, and then click Reset Web settings to see if the anomaly gets repaired. Clicking this resets the default Internet Explorer settings for home and search pages and prompt to make IE the default browser. It only resets these settings if another browser had been installed after IE and that browser has changed them.
Note: However, be aware that the article [Q325192] discusses and describes know issues that may occur after installing certain Updates to Internet Explorer or Windows. Please review the content of this article to see whether there is an issue concerning the cumulative security patches for Internet Explorer that are documented in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-032 (822925) or MS03-040 (828750) that may cause an "HTTP 404 - File not found" error message when you try to visit Web pages that are opened by JavaScript functions in frames or in windows.
3. Download and use "IEFix" - a general purpose fix for Internet Explorer (Win 98/ME/2000/XP):
a. Registers Urlmon.dll, Mshtml.dll, Actxprxy.dll, Oleaut32.dll, Shell32.dll, Shdocvw.dll, [Q281679].
b. Refreshes Internet Explorer using IE.INF method. Note:
"Unable to Install Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP (Q304872)"
"How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows XP (Q31837
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c. Initiates "SFC /Scannow" (Win2K&XP), [Q310747].