I'm worthless and weak...

This is probably a truly pathetic question, but it is driving me mad - some of the merchant banners obviously use .asp files, but I cannot view these on my PC using Internet Explorer 6.

I know they work because I can see them when I look on a different machine, but for the life of me I can't work out what options to select/de-select in Internet Explorer to let me view the files.

Please can someone help - or just shoot me down for being the tech-less, no brainer that I am.

I thank you...

on a windows machine you will need IIS installed to view asp files, its not an IE problem its a server scripting language thing.

im sure someone else here will be able to explain better


andy

Yes, to run ASP pages on your PC, your machine needs to be configured to be a local server, which sometimes isn't the simplest thing in the world to achieve. ASP is used in conjunction with VB or JavaScript or C and is simply code that generates HTML, so you will never see any ASP in a web page when you surf the web - all the conversion has already been done. IIS is the most common web server but there are many others. I use Web Matrix server on XP Home with ASP.NET - all free from Microsoft.

Actually, the more I read your question the more I'm not sure if this is what you were meaning. If you just mean that you're referencing the ASP files from within local Script tags and it doesn't work, then there's something wrong. This should always work if (a) you're connected to the net and (b) if your script settings in IE6 (Internet options / security tab / custom level...) are all set to "enabled" (bottom of the scrolly page)

Thanks andy an hhh,

But I can't believe it's anything that technical as it works fine on my wife's PC and all I did was plug that in (and it's running the same version of IE)!

I have also set my security levels to "Low", so everthing is enabled and ticked just about every box going in "Content", but still they dont work.

I should have said that it also doe sthe same with all the CJ banners that use the www.qksrv.net links - in fact I can't even access the CJ main site on my PC because of this problem. I have to use a "back-door" route via one of my merchants.

I'm sure its something truly pathetic, but I can't for the life of me work out what it is!

Cheers, Gus

Have you got an ad blocker program running? Some of these such as Spyblocker wont allow cj unless you change the settings.

Keith,

I thought you might have cracked it there - but the only thing that I have running is the ZoneAlarm Firewall and I just turned that off, but still no joy.

Mind you it did make me think - are there any settings in IE to disable advert scripts (or the technology used to run them), because I'm sure I never used to have this problem?

Cheers, Gus

Don't ask me why, as I haven't done anything, but the damn things have just started working - it's a miracle!

Just goes to show what a wonderful thing tchnology is... NOT!

Anyway, really appreciate all of the help.

Cheers, Gus

Now this is just getting stupid - they've stopped working again!

All I did in between was go to TD to look at some of the banners that I couldn't previously see - go figure!

If it an adblocker, hold down "CTRL + refresh" usaully works for that one page.

If youve got win2k then do "CTRL + ALT + DEL"
and check for anyway adblockers exe files running.. stuff like SpeedUp.exe...

Looking at mine ive got one called whore.exe running.. ummm

I have Zone Alarm running and it's fine. I doubt it's this.

What exactly is happening? Does it show a broken link, an error, blank page...? I can't think of anything in IE that would cause this apart from perhaps the "mixed content" setting, which, if disabled, will cause broken links on some link-building pages.

The easiest thing to do is see what it looks like in Mozilla.

ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozil...taller.exe

Don't think it's an ad blocker - I tied the CTL + refresh and I've also checked to make sure that nothing nasty is running in the background.

All I see on the screen is a small square with a red cross in it - plus andy ALT text - just like when an image doesn't load. If I try and follow the link anyway it just comes up with the standard "The page cannot be displayed..." message - which does give much away.

Sorry, don't know what to do the Mozilla link...

What is the thing about mixed content? Because occassionally the icon at the bottom right-hand side of IE changes from saying "Local intranet" to "content mixed" (or something like that!). Could this be related?

Cheers, Gus

Thinking back a year or so ago I had a wierd and wonderful time with ie 6 due to having Marketscore running on my PC. Marketscore runs in the background and can be fairly hide to track down however if it is there you will find a folder called nscheck somewhere on your hard drive, if you find it the only way to uninstall is to go to
start->run->

type C<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\"> WINDOWS\SYSTEM\nscheck.exe /uninstall

then reboot.

I'm clutching at straws but just maybe this is the cause of yor problem.