Internet Explorer Script Error when printing

Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.

In the forums, we got an interesting question. The person got the following error:

An error has occurred in the script on this page

Internet Explorer script error
Line: 1015
Char: 1
Unspecified error:
Code 0 URL: res://c:\windows\system\shdoclc.dll/preview.dlg

Here are some possible solutions:

Solution 1: Uninstall Surfairy

If you don't have Surfairy on your system, move on to the next solution.

• Click on the Start button
• Choose Run
• Type in:
  C:\Program Files\Surfairy\uninstall.exe
• Press Enter
• Go through the uninstallation screens to remove Surfairy.

Source: Microsoft Knowledge Base

Solution 2: For Windows ME users

If you have Windows ME, follow the instructions in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article.

Solution 3: Disable Script Debugging

• Open Internet Explorer
• Click on the Tools menu
• Choose Internet Options
• Click on the Advanced tab
• Under Browsing, check Disable script debugging

Source: Infopackets

Solution 4: For Windows 95/98/ME users

This solution involves replacing the IEPEERS.DLL file, which might be bad. Follow the instructions in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article. 

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