Hotmail blank page workaround
Several times I have had to deal with IE problems due to spyware or adware installed in a machine (thanks Kazaa MD and Imesh). Last week a friend told me he couldn't browse Hotmail web site since it returned a blank page and an status bar message stating the page had already finished downloading. This problem appeared mainly in applications featuring browser-based windows (for example I wanted to run System Restore but I got a blank page in that application as well). Googling for some workaround to this annoyance I found out that this error can be solved by installing an application (seemed more like a fix to me... anyway) called Windows Script 5.6 from Microsoft web site that solves the problem that some applications have with browser-based windows. In my case what seemed to cause the problem was McAfee VirusScan when being uninstalled.
In my Windows XP SP2 installation (also for 2K boxes) I run this one
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...3/scripten.exe
for Win9x, Me, NT boxes try this one
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...1c/scr56en.exe
Hope this helps