no scroll bars in internet windows?

[Nellisir]

I've had occasional difficulty with windows opening up without scroll bars, making it impossible to get to the bottom of the page. It had only been happening with DrivethruRPG, but tonight it's happened with a several websites I was trying to visit (National Association of Search and Rescue; Mountain Search and Rescue). Whether I opend them in a tab or a new window, they opened without scrollbars.
(Actually, they opened without the toolbar along the top, too - no home button, no back, just the IE "title" bar)

I'm running IE...something. Whatever's the most recent, I assume.

So, any ideas? It's incredibly infuriating.

Thanks

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Switch to Firefox In fact while you're at it switch to Linux, it will make all your Windows problems go away

Seriously I've noticed that happening in IE7 on some of the college comps, but never worried since I don't use IE.

 

[drothgery]

It's possible to use CSS to disable scrollbars, though people who do this for anything other than small, user-activated pop-up windows are evil.

 

[Tharian]

It's also possible to do this with javascript. However, I've not heard of it spontaneously happening with a particular browser.

 

[ssampier]

My guess is that you either downloaded some spyware/trojan that's messing with your Internet settings.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/06/12/628499.aspx

If that doesn't work, I have seen some malware where it uses Windows policies to restrict IE behavior. I can't remember where these settings are located; need to do more research.

 

[fba827]

Sounds like a couple things to look at

1) Try hitting f11 -- that may give you back lots of things you're missing (it's a toggle that puts IE in some special mode)

2) where the tabs would be (if you had more than one open) right click and make sure that "view menu bar" is checked; the menu bar being the File, Edit, etc line (you can also get to this by going View -> Toolbars but if you can't get the menu bar to begin with, you can't see the View option )

As to how or why it changed, the f11 thing is easy to accidentally hit some how. But if it is more than that, yeah, you could very easily have a trojan, javascripted site or something that has taken control of your IE