Hi!
I am trying to help a friend so this is not my computer and this is all the info I have.
She has Win 2000 with a dial up connection. The home page comes up OK, and she can type in a url and go there and she can click on a url from the favorites and go there. BUT when a web page is up, if she clicks on a link or picture on the page, it acts like it is working but doesn't go anywhere. Also, when she is in her email and clicks on a message to open it, it does the same thing.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thank you.It sounds like you have a popup blocker installed.  Do you see any messages at the top of the browser?I asked and she said the only message is something about a parse. She will check at home (we're at work now) for exact WORDING and I will let you know. Or MAYBE that is all you need.Try HOLDING the CTRL key before clicking any links.  Or you can right-click and open new window.OK, these didn't work.
She says she gets several messages while trying to link, was not sure of exact wording but things like
FAILED TO PARSE TOOLBAR
or
YOU HAVE PREFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION...
or
HARD DISK IS FULL

She's got a spyware bug.  If you have a good spyware remover, use that, otherwise download something like Ad-aware 6.0, Spybot S&D, or another free program from Download.com.

http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/Toolbar-Definition-File-ftopict435631.html jennymae......  Ask you friend if by any chance they have Ad-Aware installed with the Ad guard active ....... it will cause what you have described to occur as well.

dl65