Thought I'd toss this out here to some higher minds:

A friend has a machine running Windoze XP (SP3 I believe) with multiple
identities set up. On one of the 'identities', which has admin rights, IE7
will not display stylesheets or background images. IE7 behaves properly
with all other a'identities' on that machine.

I've reset to mfg defaults, tried numerous combinations of stuff short of
tin-knocking the windoze registry, all to no avail. Next step is to delete
that user account and make another for her. I'd rather not do that, for
all the obvious reasons.

Anyone have any idea what may be going on?

cheers

- M

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Matt-the-Hoople wrote:

> Thought I'd toss this out here to some higher minds:
>
> A friend has a machine running Windoze XP (SP3 I believe) with
> multiple
> identities set up. On one of the 'identities', which has admin
> rights, IE7
> will not display stylesheets or background images. IE7 behaves
> properly with all other a'identities' on that machine.
>
> I've reset to mfg defaults, tried numerous combinations of stuff short
> of
> tin-knocking the windoze registry, all to no avail. Next step is to
> delete
> that user account and make another for her. I'd rather not do that,
> for all the obvious reasons.
>
> Anyone have any idea what may be going on?
>
> cheers
>
> - M
>

Odd, does this identity have higher privileges than the others, or the
same? If it's higher privs, it might be a means to protect them from
IE security holes. Otherwise, provided the settings are the same, I
can't imagine why it wouldn't work for that one user. I'd assume
something, somewhere, must be different, even if it's not immediately
noticeable (Sorry, I guess that's obvious).
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On 29 Sep 2008, Tim Greer barged into alt.www.webmaster and uttered:

> Odd, does this identity have higher privileges than the others, or the
> same?

yes, the user has admin privs.

> If it's higher privs, it might be a means to protect them from
> IE security holes.

I thought of that. I set up another admin user (me), and IE worked
fine. That's when I figured I'd ask higher minds. ;-)

> Otherwise, provided the settings are the same, I
> can't imagine why it wouldn't work for that one user.

It's got me puzzled, too.

> I'd assume something, somewhere, must be different, even if it's not
> immediately noticeable (Sorry, I guess that's obvious).

That's why I'm thinking it's something in the Windows registry that can
be toggled - I just don't know what.

thanks for trying

- Matt


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