Solved Javascript not working in IE11

[TonyD390]

I'm not sure when this started exactly because it seemed to affect only certain sites, then it got progressively worse from there. I have Firefox installed and it is working fine. I first noticed the problem in IE when watching a video on liveleak.com. There's a button at the bottom of the video pages. Clicking on it loads comments. It uses javascript. That stopped working.

About a week later videos on break.com stopped working. They just show up as a black box. At this point I started noticing all the functionality I was missing on other sites, comparing how they worked in Firefox. In fact, registering here was impossible in IE because the reCaptcha didn't show up.

I've checked all settings in IE and everything is correct. I'm the only one that uses this computer. It WAS working and it just stopped. I didn't change anything. I disabled antivirus and firewall. That didn't help.

I tried regsvr32 jscript.dll and regsvr32 jscript9.dll, which returned correct responses. Didn't help.

I ran sfc /scannow, which did find and correct errors. Didn't help.

I reinstalled IE11, flash, Java, cleared cache, temp files, java cache, everything else I could find that people suggested. No luck

Lacking anything else to try I uninstalled IE11 and every windows update back to July. I know it was working back then. That brought be back to IE8. JavaScript worked fine. I then updated to IE9 with no other windows updates. Again, JavaScript worked fine.

Next, I installed IE10. JavaScript didn't work.

At this point I'm out of things to try. I have two options. I can start over and reinstall Windows. I really don't want to do that. I could use my free Windows 10 upgrade. I have 10 on a laptop and I could deal with it, but I'd prefer to stick with 7 if I could.

Any thoughts?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,

Temp files delete,
Save it to your desktop,
Then right click it and click on Run this asadministrator and Start the scanner,
Shut your machine down after it finishes if prompted toif not close button,
TFC - Temp File Cleaner by OldTimer Download - Geeks to Go Forum

 

[TonyD390]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem.

One more interesting observation - Another website, www.sweetwater.com. Their main page has a menu system, which I assume is all JavaScript. This is one of the sites I noticed I was having trouble. Across the top the menu lists Shop, DealZone, News & Research, Support. As I mouse over those menus appear with other choices. If I stay on Shop and hover down over the menu that is showing, over IOS/iPad>, Recording>, Computer Audio>, etc. other menus should pop up. They don't. They open if I click, but in Firefox (or IE on a working computer) they pop up just by hovering over them.

Odd that the top choices seem to work but the others don't. Not sure if I'm making something out of nothing or not. Kind of grasping at straws at this point.

 

[UsernameIssues]

I ran sfc /scannow, which did find and correct errors. Didn't help.

Please do that at least two more times - reboot between each scan.

I reinstalled IE11, flash, Java,...

Uninstall Java - unless you know for a fact that you need it for something. It is not related to javascript. Java is a security risk. It is a way to get infected. If you need it, then decide if the need is worth the risk. If you don't need it, then why have risk having it installed?


I'll leave you in ThrashZone's capable hands.


:::goes back to lurking:::

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yep Deal Zone... and the top entries in all of the other sections do not have drop downs in either ie10 or Pale moon for me either
But everything that shows ">" does have a drop down list that works so I believe that is normal or at least I'm seeing the same responses :/

 

[TonyD390]

I ran sfc /scannow, which did find and correct errors. Didn't help.

Please do that at least two more times - reboot between each scan.

I've probably run it about 10 times, rebooting after, not rebooting after, in safe mode, not in safe mode. Every time it says either it found errors and corrected them or it found errors and couldn't correct them.

I've never run it and had it come up clean.

 

[UsernameIssues]

Please follow option three in this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

Attach the sfcdetails.txt file to your next post per these steps:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

 

[torchwood]

Which Anti Virus/Firewall are you using, its possible that they might change/overide MS IE settings.

Roy

 

[TonyD390]

Thanks again for all the help.

Torchwood - I am using AVG antivirus and Comodo firewall. At one point in my troubleshooting I had AVG disabled and Comodo completely uninstalled. It did not help.

 

[torchwood]

AVG says it all, its not got a lot of friends around here.
Although you dissabled it, i suspect that only the AV was stopped, not the other components, safesearch, toolbar add-ons etc,

Uninstall it and use MSE, see if that makes a difference

Roy

 

[TonyD390]

No tool bar. AV, link scanner, identity protection (however that's supposed to work), and email scanner. Each can be enabled or disabled individually, assuming it is doing what it is telling you it is doing.

I've been using AVG for years and I can't say I've ever had any problems with it. That being said, it is simple enough to get rid of to see what happens.

Update: I uninstalled AVG. No Luck.

 

[TonyD390]

Update:

I went to this site -
https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/is-javascript-enabled
and it says, yes, JavaScript is enabled.

Next, I disabled JavaScript in IE and went to liveleak.com, the site I first had problems with. Not only did the comments not display, the videos wouldn't play, either. I turned JavaScript back on and the videos started working again.

This suggests to me that some JavaScript must be working and some is not.

Thursday night my upgrade to Windows 10 was available. I started that and went to bed. After work Friday I was playing around, configuring things. All is well. Edge is going to take a little getting used to so I was still using Internet Explorer, but it was working fine. I only checked liveleak and break, but I assume the rest of the sites that were giving me trouble were working as well.

Something changed between Saturday morning and Saturday evening, though. JavaScript quit working again. It's not 100% like before because videos on break.com still work, but that didn't happen right away before, either. Other than that, symptoms are exactly the same in Windows 10 as they were in Windows 7.

I do have the Edge browser now, which is working fine, but I'd really like to figure out what's going on here.

FWIW - Windows did install updates today.

Edit: Just noticed something else. Not sure if this is a clue or not. While searching for an answer to an unrelated question I was directed to a site called superuser.com. When I went there an alert came up at the top of the page that said "Super User requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load."

 

[ThrashZone]

ie11 does exist in win-10 it's just hidden a bit,
Winkey+R
Type in the run box and okay.
iexplore.exe

Pin ie11 to taskbar.

 

[TonyD390]

ie11 does exist in win-10 it's just hidden a bit,
Winkey+R
Type in the run box and okay.
iexplore.exe

Pin ie11 to taskbar.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I was using IE 11 in Windows 10. JavaScript worked perfectly in Windows 10 for a day then started doing the same thing it was doing in Windows 7. JavaScript works fine in Edge (and Firefox). No longer works in IE.

 

[TonyD390]

Solved!

Did a little poking around using F12 to see exactly what was happening. It ended up being tracking protection. When I disable tracking protection everything works fine. Apparently it blocks other functionality as well.

What's interesting is I built this computer about 18 months ago and everything was fine until a month or two ago. I've changed nothing as far as IE settings, tracking protection, etc., and really forgot all about it even being there.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions. I appreciate the effort. Now I have to decide if I'm going to stick with Windows 10 or revert back to 7

 

[NoelDP]

SFC apparently fixed the only problem it found.
However, I dislike using just the SFC output for diagnostics, since it misses a lot of valuable information.
Please follow the Windows Update Posting Instructions and post the requested data

If the file is too large (8MB compressed), remove the older CBSPersist cab files until the final file is below the limit - you can always post them separately after zipping them. (the forum doesn't allow the upload of bare CAB files, for a number of reasons)

Please also post the C:\Windows\windowsudpate.log file

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Kind of ironic
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