Javascript not working in IE

I recently came across a situation where javascript was not working on my machine.

I made sure that scripting was enabled in IE:

But still Javascript would not work on the machine.

BTW, this page is a great place to test for Javascript support in your browser:
http://www.virtualjournals.org/jhtml/testbrow.jsp

If javaScript is enabled you should see the following page when you hit the above website:

After much googling, I found the following fix: and it was to re-register the jscript.dll file using the following command (Start->Run):

regsvr32 jscript.dll