Comments on Christopher Miller's random thoughts: Why www.nbc.com wont load with IE7 on Vista (and h...

I send sent the user agent string to all three sit...

2009-02-08T16:55:00.000-05:00

I send sent the user agent string to all three sites and ask why you were being incorrectly redirected. The odds are they are all using some list of strings to look for in the user agent string. I would curious to know what actual mobile device would have the string values from your user agent string.

I most probably will. This happened on their site,...

2009-02-08T13:56:00.000-05:00

I most probably will. This happened on their site, starbucks and bink.nu (went there since someone posted s similar thread as this). I have no idea if there were others or not, as this is a relatively new build.

Sen,

You should report that as an error to ...

2009-02-08T09:15:00.000-05:00

Sen,

You should report that as an error to NBC. This link is probably as good as any other. You shouldn't have to tweak your user agent string just deal with a badly design web site.

Turns out it was the "Creative AutoUpdate v1.10.10...

2009-02-08T01:18:00.000-05:00

Turns out it was the "Creative AutoUpdate v1.10.10" entry... Removed that and all is well.

No I have not. I was hoping to find something like...

2009-02-07T19:36:00.000-05:00

No I have not. I was hoping to find something like that to help identify whats holding it up. I'm starting to think it may be the creative autoupdate entry.

Sen,
Have you tried using one of the User Agent...

2009-02-07T16:18:00.000-05:00

Sen,
Have you tried using one of the User Agent spoofing tools to identify which part of the user agent string has confused NBC? There are a few out there. I saw (but did not try) wannabrowser. That would let you manually set the user agent string.

I've been having this same issue, but this is not ...

2009-02-06T19:40:00.000-05:00

I've been having this same issue, but this is not a tablet PC, nor are there any tablets installed. I also do not have the "Tablet PC" entry in the registry key thats been discussed here. I've searched through my registry looking for anything of this nature, and no luck.

I thought I'd post my user agent string to see if anyone had any ideas...

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; GTB5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Creative AutoUpdate v1.10.10)

Thoughts?

ya by the way its not vista , i have xp and the s...

2008-12-11T19:41:00.000-05:00

ya by the way its not vista , i have xp and the same problem , i used to be able to log in fine a couple weeks ago till i tried now , so i dont know what changed from then .

wicked weird. i noticed the site wasn't working ...

2008-12-09T03:26:00.000-05:00

wicked weird. i noticed the site wasn't working for me, but i had no idea what the problem was. I saw people saying that it was due to tablet pcs, but I thought to myself, "I don't have one."
I forgot that I had installed WACOM drives and therefore had a tablet pc.
the problem was pinpointed and occurred at that moment.
internet tv-show sites are terrible. so is dell.

Oh sweet mystery of life at last I have found you!...

2008-12-07T06:50:00.000-05:00

Oh sweet mystery of life at last I have found you! Thanks so much. I have been plagued by this for months and had to install Firefox just for the nbc website alone. I purchased (and returned) a cheap knockoff of a Wacom tablet some time ago. I never installed the software, but the Vista Ultimate used it's own drivers. I had it in there for about 15 minutes then removed it, but now IE7 thinks its a tablet PC! So I removed the indication from the registry (run as administrator), closed all ie7 windows, opened a new one, cleared all cookies, temp files, etc. Now nbc works! Thanks so much! Any ideas why I cannot get the newest version of Flash to work? I have tried bunches of stuff, and it acts like it is installed, but certain websites insist it isn't the most recent version (such as Walgreen's and Circuit City ads, CNN for full screen and many, many others) which is driving me crazy. The IE8 beta works as well as the Firefox version.

I love writing all kinds of crazy Scheiße on peopl...

2008-11-22T00:47:00.000-05:00

I love writing all kinds of crazy Scheiße on peoples blogs

Thank you so much Chris! I'm back to watching Lip...

2008-11-21T23:21:00.000-05:00

Thank you so much Chris! I'm back to watching Lipstick Jungle -- all is right with the world. ::Sigh:: :P

CHRIS you are my HERO!! I have been having this pr...

2008-11-14T22:52:00.000-05:00

CHRIS you are my HERO!! I have been having this problem for months and have been searching the web for a solution!!! Thank you!!! I never in a million years would have figured it out....

Thanks Chris! Also, I went to www.nbci.com and wa...

2008-10-31T18:06:00.000-04:00

Thanks Chris! Also, I went to www.nbci.com and wanted to watch The Office, well when I clicked on it, I got the same message as before, I then went up to the address bar, put in an "i" to make it nbci.com/blahblahblah AND IT WORKED! booya my friend, booya.

The annoying part is that this is not a fix, it's ...

2008-10-21T21:26:00.000-04:00

The annoying part is that this is not a fix, it's a work around. If everone who reads this could leave a comment on NBC website (ok, NBCi.com) to complain about, maybe they will fix it.

AWESOME!!! I knew someone would eventually post a...

2008-10-21T21:14:00.000-04:00

AWESOME!!! I knew someone would eventually post a fix! :-)

I discovered this problem on my Vista Tablet a cou...

2008-10-16T11:50:00.000-04:00

I discovered this problem on my Vista Tablet a couple of days ago. I even downloaded Firefox 3.0.3 to check it out - it gives me an interesting error:

Redirect Loop

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.

* Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site?
* NOTE: If accepting the site's cookies does not resolve the problem, it is likely a server configuration issue and not your computer.

All of my non-tablet pc's load the page correctly. I guess us lowly tablet users are stuck using nbci.com for now...

Chris,

Your the man i have been rackin...

2008-10-11T15:35:00.000-04:00

Chris,

Your the man i have been racking my brain for the last 3 days trying to figure this out. Thanks laot for your help

I posted a comment on their web site, you should t...

2008-09-28T21:36:00.000-04:00

I posted a comment on their web site, you should too, It's the squeaky wheel that gets oiled.

Has anyone told NBC.com of the problem? I have ha...

2008-09-28T19:51:00.000-04:00

Has anyone told NBC.com of the problem? I have had the same problems...

Hey Chris, you're a genius. Who could have known t...

2008-09-24T02:58:00.000-04:00

Hey Chris, you're a genius. Who could have known that the problem is with nbc.com.

Chris, you rock. I've been having the same proble...

2008-09-13T17:42:00.000-04:00

Chris, you rock. I've been having the same problem for months on my Vista Universal machine. I too have a Wacom Bamboo tablet. Thanks for the solution.