SillyDog701

[zipdrive]

Well, I suppose the real question is why anyone would bother with Safari on a Windows machine.

>>RSM

I think leonidasjones summed it best when he said:

Some one asked why have it installed on Windows. Well, any one who even dabbles in web development, or who helps troubleshoot web page rendering, needs to have as many browsers installed as possible. Its the only way to be sure that a pge is rendereing for as many users as possible.

That would be my excuse to a 'T'. That is the only reason why I am trying to install Safari on this desktop.

-Zip

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; FDM)

[zipdrive]

for what it's worth, I don't have a problem with the safari browser on my laptop that is XP Pro (same as desktop) and a Vista Desktop so its got to be a program conflict of some kind. My updates are the same as far as the OS is concerned on the laptop and desktop, its just a question of what is the problem setting or app that is causing this.


-Zip

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; FDM)

[PaulD]

John: You said that you ended up reinstalling XP. Did that eliminate the scrambled display? Did you make ANY hardware changes during the interim - that is, between bad screen and refreshed-XP/good screen?

Edit - Just read your [sdp=95640]other[/sdp] post, which answered the main question.
So, where does that leave us? Does anyone see any other possibility than that there is some Registry contamination?

There are so many Registry entries that could be implicated that I don't really know where to start. There have been multiple mentions of the Display Adapter - driver refresh, replacement, etc. Has anyone tried redefining the Monitor? This seems an unlikely candidate, but would be an easy check. Undefine the existing monitor and revert to a generic device. The scrambled display presentation strongly reminds me of a 'horizontal sync' mis-setting on old/early television sets. The XP reload that John did would have created a clean Registry.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

[leonidasjones]

Have you run the Ccleaner registry cleaner on the machine? Its worth a try.

Lee

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0

[zipdrive]

Have you run the Ccleaner registry cleaner on the machine? Its worth a try.
Lee

Nice little tool you posted Lee, I did try to remove safari, run the registry cleaner then reinstall (after rebooting) but to no avail. There is a program conflict somewhere and for me to go back and remember what has been installed after the first successful running of Safari would be futile. I know there is a utility out there that gives info on when something has been installed on your system, I just do not know what it is off the top of my head. if I find a freebie prog that performs this, I will post in the forum, that could be a help, the only problem is I'll to remember when I installed Safari the first time... lol

Thanks for posting.

-Zip

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; FDM)

[zipdrive]

Did a google and found a freeware version of WinAudit...
http://pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm

Tried about 2 of them before running across this one, gives an actual install date, worth looking into, I plan on going thru the outputted report and see what was installed after the time I first installed Safari.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; FDM)

[iJohnE]

John: You said that you ended up reinstalling XP. Did that eliminate the scrambled display? Did you make ANY hardware changes during the interim - that is, between bad screen and refreshed-XP/good screen?

Edit - Just read your [sdp=95640]other[/sdp] post, which answered the main question.
So, where does that leave us? Does anyone see any other possibility than that there is some Registry contamination?

There are so many Registry entries that could be implicated that I don't really know where to start. There have been multiple mentions of the Display Adapter - driver refresh, replacement, etc. Has anyone tried redefining the Monitor? This seems an unlikely candidate, but would be an easy check. Undefine the existing monitor and revert to a generic device. The scrambled display presentation strongly reminds me of a 'horizontal sync' mis-setting on old/early television sets. The XP reload that John did would have created a clean Registry.

Yes, I refreshed the driver. And tried to redefine the monitor to a number of settings.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

[leonidasjones]

Have you tried simply going back to the release version of Safari? Version 4 is a beta after all.

Lee

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0