From: "Rich Gauszka" 

was about to select that paragraph both in FF 2.0.0.1 and
IE6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519

FF
If you try to diagnosis this problem, you may see a window that says that
Windows Network Diagnostics "Cannot communicate with Primary DNS
Server"

IE6
If you try to diagnosis this problem, you may see a window that says that
Windows Network Diagnostics "Cannot communicate with Primary DNS
Server"



"John Beckett"  wrote in message
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> While following links from Slashdot re the Vista network issue I just
> posted about, I found a page where it was hard to select text in order to
> copy a wanted sentence.
>
> BTW the following link is quite interesting for those using Vista -
> apparently there is a diagnostics tool that allows you to disable window
> scaling without the command prompt netsh stuff.
>
> It's also interesting that the way to run the tool is to click a
"res://"
> link in the web page!
>
> http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1744/vista_tcp_cannot_communicate_primary_dns_
server
>
> Para 3 of the article starts "If you try to diagnosis this
problem...".
>
> What is that prevents me from selecting text in para 3, prior to a copy?
> Is it simply a bug in my IE6, or has the web site done some tricky
> formatting to exploit an issue in IE6 that prevents it from doing a copy?
>
> My IE6 browser has scripting off. This site is in my Internet zone. I've
> noticed this on a few sites. It's not a problem - I know I can View Source
> to get the text. I'm just curious.
>
> I see that Firefox does not have the issue in the two IE6 browsers I've
> tried.
>
> John
>

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