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Originally Posted by Andiline
I'll check that immediately... - they are enabled, all three of them... Maybe I should play around with these settings a little bit this evening. In this list there are more possibilities than those three and in my list some of them are disabled. I will check that out this evening.
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The fact that you can click on the emoticon but the underlying script doesn't run tells me that it's most likely a security issue. Are you running any products like ZoneAlarm, Norton Internet Security, Script Sentry, SpySweeper, etc., etc.?
If not, go to the Windows Control Panel, (choose classic view) and double click Windows Firewall. Turn it off!! Then try Internet Explorer again. If you're still batting zero, look through your list of installed programs to see if you might have some unknown pre-installed security software messing things up. It's possible that one of those utilities is blocking active script.
I believe James is running a steroiditized version of PHPBB for the forum engine here. If you enjoy searching for an answer, their forum (phpbb.com) has a wealth of information. Just search for the topic emoticon or smiley. The fact that the smileys work on other forums doesn't mean much because the operational process may be done differently.
Worse case scenario, it could be a WindowsXP-SP2 issue or a motherboard chipset issue. I don't see any motherboards from my usual vendors that have built-in firewall software imbedded in the ROM but that doesn't mean yours doesn't. I would at least take a look at your BIOS (enter at boot-up) and view, so you can check that possibility off the list. By the way, at this very moment I'm on a Dell laptop (Intel) with WindowsXP and all of the latest SP2 patches with Microsoft Firewall enabled but no virus protection.
Jimmy