I’m getting this message when I open a page in Internet Explorer:
Runtime error 226 at OFD1655F
I click OK and then I get this message:
Runtime error 226 at OFED629F
I click OK and then the page works normally.
What’s up with that?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best wishes,
Jerry
This is what I found on the net:
http://www.help2go.com/postlite8100-runtime.html+error+226
To use the Internet Explorer Repair tool:
Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Add/Remove Programs.
On the Install/Uninstall tab, click Microsoft Internet Explorer click Add/Remove, click Repair the current installation of Internet Explorer, and then click OKIf it is Windows XP then go here
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378
I’ve got Windows 98, which doesn’t seem to have the “Repair the current installation of Internet Explorer” option in the add/remove programs function.
Any other thoughts?
As always, I appreciate your help.
FWIW, I’ve run three different spyware removal programs. One of them, Spyware Doctor, finds “About Blank” spyware and says it can’t remove it from Windows 98. Could this be part of the problem?
Best wishes,
Jerry
Download & install the latest version of Internet Explorer over what you currently have. Or you could say “To hell with IE” and start using Mozilla Firefox 
Cheers,
David
The link you posted goes to this:
“Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1”
I downloaded and installed that, day before yesterday, and it seemed to speed things up a bit, but it didn’t change the problem. IE is still acting very strangely, in other ways as well as this runtime error thing.
It locks up frequently, and sometimes things don’t display properly if I have more than one thing going on at a time. The “minimize,” “restore” and “maximize” functions don’t work reliably, and they sometimes freeze. I’ve never had that problem before.
Again, I appreciate your help.
Best wishes,
Jerry
A helpful Chiffer sent me an email with the following info …
I also run Windows 98 and you do have a repair function for Internet Explorer , at least you should have. Try this path : Click Start - Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Information . Then , at the top of the window click on Tools and Internet Explorer Repair Tool should be in the drop down box.
It worked!
Thanks, all for your kind assistance.
Best wishes,
Jerry
that’s pretty much what I did 
Now it’s doing it again. Using the “Repair Internet Explorer” function seems to correct it for awhile, but then it starts again. I’m suspicious of the Spyware Doctor software I downloaded.
sigh
Best wishes,
Jerry
I use only Adaware and Spybot for spyware removal. There is another program that might help it is called HiJackThis. It requires some knowledge to use effectively. There is site that will help you solve this kind of problem but I am not at home so I don’t have my references. If it started right after you loaded Spyware Doctor I would get rid of it. I foolishly downloaded a spyware removal program that itself was a huge spyware program. I don’t know anything about Spyware Doctor. If the IE repair works and than goes bad again after you reboot, it is probably an entry in your registry that is causing the problem.
Not much help but,
Ron
When all else fails, try cleaning house–dump any old programs and then defrag.
If you can find a registry cleaning tool, you might also give that a whirl. The registry holds on to information about uninstalled software so it can get pretty clogged up.
(Caution! Registry hacking can bring down the whole machine, but I’ve avoided that fate thus far.)
I’ve got Windows 98 at home and it chokes on IE screens with Java content, or sometimes Flash or Shockwave and I have to reboot. I’m running Netscape right now (at home) but may switch over to Firefox too.
To compound my problems, I’ve bought a new box with Windows XP Pro on it so I’ll have a new set of problems to learn to work around
Jerry,
There are three pieces of software I would recommend. First, Spybot Search and Destroy http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html. The next is Ad-Aware Personal Edition http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ . Both of these are entirely freeware (and don’t contain any internal spyware of their own). They are both very highly rated tools by Download.com. I have used them both for some time and find them very good. I recommend running both because one may find malware the other doesn’t. Also important to down load current updates to spyfiles frequently.
The third bit of software I can recommend is Secretmaker at http://secretmaker.com/ . This is a bit different in that it has a number of tools that you can use to configure Internet Explorer that may help . Entirely free and easy to use. I also use this and am amazed by the amount of junk that gets blocked before it even gets into my computer.
You can look all three up on the CNet Download site http://www.download.com/
and read reviews if interested.
Best
Thanks for the continuing coaching, folks.
Here’s where we are now:
On the suggestion of the chiffer who emailed the tip about how to repair IE on a Win98 machine, I’ve gone into the system information “tools” menu and turned off several programs that were launching on startup.
Two or three of those, I had wanted to turn off but didn’t know how; they were nuisance programs I had no use for. And I turned off the launch on startup function for Spyware Doctor. I’m happy to have that as a program I can launch and then scan for malware, but I was suspicious of having it running in the background all the time attempting to monitor all Internet activity. Let’s see if that stops the problem. And I re-repaired Internet Explorer. As of this minute, it’s behaving. (Fingers crossed.)
Pete, I already have Spybot and AdAware on board, probably on your advice from a previous discussion. When I first ran Spyware Doctor, it found and deleted 475 adware and spyware items that hadn’t been revealed by Spybot and AdAware. IE has been running faster since then, but the runtime error thing started happening. I’ll check out the other application you’ve mentioned.
Oh, and I defragged the hard drive last night. Everything’s running much faster and smoother all around, thanks to all this housekeeping. Now if the runtime error messages will just stop, I’ll be in good shape.
Thanks again, all.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I have seen the yahoo anti-spy function of their toolbar
detect and remove spyware that wer never detected by spybot, adaware, and online spyware tools. It cleaned out an extremely troublesome piece of spyware once and for all for me.
it is the only tool I have used for a few months and I have not had any problems
I’m definitely getting the impression that no single spyware tool will do the whole job every time.
Again, thanks for all your help. Everything seems back to normal (knock on wood), but faster and cleaner than before thanks to defragging, removing unnecessary programs from the start-on-launch list and very thoroughly scrubbing for spyware.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Aaaargh!
It’s doing that runtime error thing again!
I’m going to bed and hide under the covers.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Jerry, old pal,
My 2 cents…
Do you have any pop-up blockers, ie, Google toolbar? Have you tried clearing your cache?
Smoot
Hey, Smoot.
I checked “Add/Remove software,” found and removed “PopThis!” I don’t think it’s been turned on in a long time, though. Nothing else in there looks suspicious.
How does one clear one’s cache?
Best wishes,
Jerry
In IE, go to “Tools” and select “Internet Options…” the General tab’s middle set of tools has buttons for clearing temporary files, cookies, and other settings.
M
Also, hold down the CTRL key and click on the REFRESH icon will clear the cache for a specific page. I had a problem with my corp intranet home page that once gave a similar problem because the VB used in it was corrupted.
Finally, you may have a Browser Helper Object that is either corrupted or malware. Google BHODemon to download the BHODemon app to locate BHO malware. If you have a corrupted BHO that is not malware, you may need to delete it. (stuff like Macromedia Flash, Java machines, etc)
Tools ->Internet Options->Settings->View Objects
Deleting it will mean it will need to reinstall itself when you hit a page that uses it.
There are 13 objects, all ActiveX controls.
Should I delete them?
Best wishes,
Jerry
