IE6 Security Controls/URLMon;msimtf (nhl 2004)

[Abdul-Haseeb Ahmad]

sorry, heres the error output that i get when urlmon is registered:
=>0 0x7800d14b (MSVCRT.DLL._set_sbh_threshold+0x25f in MSVCRT.DLL) 
(ebp=4084c100)
  1 0x7800cc1c (MSVCRT.DLL.?what at exception@@UBEPBDXZ+0x121 in 
MSVCRT.DLL) (ebp=4084c144)
  2 0x7800578c (MSVCRT.DLL.??3 at YAXPAX@Z+0x9 in MSVCRT.DLL) (ebp=4084c18c)
  3 0x69b5b18f (MSXML3.DLL.10+0x8d73 in MSXML3.DLL) (ebp=4084c1d8)
  4 0x69ba6dd8 (MSXML3.DLL.10+0x549bc in MSXML3.DLL) (ebp=4084c208)
  5 0x69ba85d5 (MSXML3.DLL.10+0x561b9 in MSXML3.DLL) (ebp=4084c230)
  6 0x69ba7b46 (MSXML3.DLL.10+0x5572a in MSXML3.DLL) (ebp=4084c2b0)
  7 0x6534642f (OLEAUT32.DLL.DispCallFunc+0xb6 in OLEAUT32.DLL) 
(ebp=4084c300)
  8 0x653645d0 (OLEAUT32.DLL.VarBstrFromDec+0x72b5 in OLEAUT32.DLL) 
(ebp=4084c390)
  9 0x69b5309f (MSXML3.DLL.10+0xc83 in MSXML3.DLL) (ebp=4084c3c0)
  10 0x69b531a5 (MSXML3.DLL.10+0xd89 in MSXML3.DLL) (ebp=4084c3f0)
  11 0x69ba83f2 (MSXML3.DLL.10+0x55fd6 in MSXML3.DLL) (ebp=4084c420)
  12 0x6b722435 (JSCRIPT.DLL.DllCanUnloadNow+0xba95 in JSCRIPT.DLL) 
(ebp=00000001)
 
0x7800d14b (MSVCRT.DLL._set_sbh_threshold+0x25f in MSVCRT.DLL): movl    
%ecx,0x4(%esi)

all of those DLL's are native.. i have the following software installed:

IE6SP1
DCOM98
Windows Script 5.6
InstallShield
JRE 1.4.2_02
MDAC 2.8
Jet 4.0 SP8
Flash 6
Comcat/Dxtrans/Dxtmsft dll's registered

Abdul-Haseeb Ahmad wrote:

> Okay when i use IE6 (installed by mike's script) any webpage that uses 
> an activex control says my security settings are too high, even if i 
> lower them (both custom settings and the slider have no effect), or 
> even if i make the site a trusted website... now i believe this might 
> be what be causing problems with NHL2004 because i get a script error 
> 80040154 (which doesnt let me go in game) when i go to the game setup 
> screen(rest of the game is flawless other than DXImageTransform 
> filters not functioning), which is caused by a missing CLSID entry.. 
> so i checked out the errors I was getting and urlmon.dll wasn't 
> registered and neither was msimtf... now the thing that nhl was trying 
> to call was the security manager which is part of urlmon.dll.. when i 
> registered urlmon, it would crash the game, and i can't get msimtf to 
> register because of problems it has with advapi32/user32 
> implementations...
>
> Im not sure what msimtf does, but i have a hunch that clearing the 
> urlmon issue might solve my problems.. anyone have an idea of what i 
> can do to solve this issue?
>
> Theres also an error: fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoA Unknown 
> action: 8198
> I have a feeling this is harmless though...
>