Comments on: Cannot View HTML source

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:05:29 +0000

Renamed the ‘notepad’ to ‘note pad’ on desktop is workable. Tks all of u.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:25:25 +0000

I had this same problem and the Host Headers pointed me to the correct direction except I found that the cache-control didn’t do anything. I found that on our servers, sites that were being served with a “compress content on demand” feature, that is, serving gzip content-encoding formatted html, IE on a PC couldn’t view source. All other browsers could. Turning this feature off allowed IE to view the source again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:34:05 +0000

Yup. Having the notepad icon on my desktop stopped it from showing the source. Thanks for this blog/thread

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 May 2005 11:22:12 +0000

Mind boggling but true…

Thanks a lot!

By: Sonia

Sonia — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:07:00 +0000

Thank you for the tip! You rawk!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:39:00 +0000

Hi ppl out here. Erm… my internet temporary files seems to be missing too. Haix… and so I can’t clear any thing in it. And so I still can’t view html source. Anyone can help me to figure out where has my temp internet files gone to? Thnx!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:07:00 +0000

What I meant to say is clearing out the temporary files in the following path: C>Documents and Settings>Username Folder>Local Settings>Temporary Internet Files. NOT C>WINDOWS>Temp>Temporary Internet Files. Just a help to those who do get it the first time around. This website for diagnosis is EXCELLENT – THANKS TO WHOMEVER MADE IT.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:02:00 +0000

thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:51:00 +0000

Hi, in my case I could not view source even though I’ve tried all the posted remedies on the web. In my case, in the c:\windows\system32\ folder, the original “notepad.exe” had been renamed “notpad.exe” and an impostor executable had taken it’s place. i’m not all to sure what it did (spyware?) but i ended up just deleting it and renaming the original.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:25:00 +0000

(Windows XP MSIE 6 SP2)

In my case (unable to view source code), all of the above remedies failed me. My problem turned out to be that msie had forgotten where my browser's cache was (or it somehow got moved) and nothing was going into the cache! Resetting the cache location in msie fixed it. tools->internet options->settings->move folder

-thanks to all who posted here and got me on the right track (temporary internet files).