Inanis.net

My blog is boring. It’s boring for security purposes.

The reason I don’t have anything interesting to post here is because I don’t want random people on the Internets to know who I am in real life. It’s the Anti-MySpace, the Contra-FaceBook. Stuff interesting to me only because you would have to be me to understand.

Now, for some geek bits.

Internet Explorer 7’s Shdocvw.dll/ieframe.dll/JavaScript Element Not Found/RunOnce Problem

If you ever use the tool known as Dial-A-Fix on a computer with Internet Explorer 7, it replaces a registry key pertaining to IE7 that makes it break. This also happens if you use the regsvr32 command manually to re-register the shdocvw.dll file using regsvr32. IE7 uses ieframe.dll now in the same way previous versions used to use shdocvw.dll. So, if you register the shdocvw.dll, it replaces ieframe.dll with shdocvw.dll in the registry. Symptoms include general wackiness and JavaScript failure (specifically, the error “Element Not Found” and “Done, but with errors” in the Status Bar). You just have to go into the registry and change the key from shdocvw to ieframe. This is commonly known as the runonce error, because it first pops up when the new IE7 RunOnce site is displayed to pick your search provider and such jazz.

Just open regedit and go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ TypeLib \{EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B} \ 1.1 \ 0 \ win32

Find on the right where it says shdocvw.dll and modify it to say ieframe.dll. Problem solved. Don’t want to use regedit? Just download, unzip and doubleclick the .REG file. Grab it.

Ever been stuck with a website with horribly annoying flash ads and/or 1×1pixel flash trackers or popup generators. Well, here’s two cool ways to block flash in both IE and Firefox:

Firefox/Mozilla/etc.: get the Flashblock extension.
Internet Explorer: try this page or the registry code below.

DisableFlash
EnableFlash

Found out that if you have weird issues with Internet Explorer creating shortcuts to itself on the desktop over and over again when you try to click on it’s icon, it’s because of a half installed or botched Internet Explorer 7 install. Running IE manually, downloading version 7 and installing it ususally fixes this.

Weird.