diff --git a/error.php b/error.php
index 5e915483d..1fd59ed70 100644
--- a/error.php
+++ b/error.php
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 	require_once "config.php";
 	require_once "db-prefs.php";
 
-	$link = db_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_NAME);	
-
 	$ERRORS[0] = "Unknown error";
 
 	$ERRORS[1] = "This program requires XmlHttpRequest " .
@@ -35,7 +33,6 @@
 </head>
 
 <table width="100%" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="main">
-<? if (get_pref($link, 'DISPLAY_HEADER')) { ?>
 <tr>
 	<td colspan="2">
 		<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr>
@@ -48,7 +45,6 @@
 		</tr></table>
 	</td>
 </tr>
-<? } ?>
 <tr>
 	<td id="prefContent" class="prefContent" valign="top" colspan="2">
 		
@@ -58,7 +54,6 @@
 
 	</td>
 </tr>
-<? if (get_pref($link, 'DISPLAY_FOOTER')) { ?>
 <tr>
 	<td class="footer" colspan="2">
 		<a href="http://bah.spb.su/~fox/tt-rss/">Tiny-Tiny RSS</a> v<?= VERSION ?> &copy; 2005 Andrew Dolgov
@@ -67,7 +62,6 @@
 		<? } ?>
 	</td>
 </td>
-<? } ?>
 </table>