After you install and uninstall some toolbar items in Internet Explorer 6, toolbar names may become blank, or unrelated toolbar items may appear

IE6 has a problem wherein if you uninstall some toolbar items the following may occur:

• On the View menu of Internet Explorer 6, when you point to Toolbars to show the toolbar items, the toolbar names may become blank.

• In some cases, when you click to select one toolbar item, a different toolbar item may appear.

Microsoft advises that an update is available to resolve this problem and is available from the Windows Update Web site.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/942202

 

Published Wed, Dec 12 2007 9:02 by sandi
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# re: After you install and uninstall some toolbar items in Internet Explorer 6, toolbar names may become blank, or unrelated toolbar items may appear

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:43 PM by Angus S-F

Sandi,

The MS KB you reference says only to visit http://update.microsoft.com/ -- any idea which patch fixes this problem?  A google for 942202 didn't turn up anything useful. ... (later -- applied some Google-fu and found it's covered under MS07-069, but what exactly is fixed is not detailed)

www.google.com/search

# re: After you install and uninstall some toolbar items in Internet Explorer 6, toolbar names may become blank, or unrelated toolbar items may appear

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:38 AM by sandi

Hi Angus,

Yes, the KB is rather unhelpful.

I suspect that the update is not available as a stand-alone, but rather only as part of the IE cumulative update.  A quick check of download.microsoft.com is unfruitful.

Sandi