Repair or reinstall Internet Explorer?
to repair:
Go to the control panel and into "Add/Remove Programs" and highlight
the entry for "Microsoft Internet explorer..." and press the
"Add/Remove" button.
Then select the opeion to "Repair Internet Explorer" and press the
"OK" button then the "Yes" button on the next window to let IE try to
repair itself.
If that doesn't work or you have an older version that doesn't have
the option to repair.
1. if you have a version lower than IE5.5sp2 update to IE5.5sp2 (it's
more stable)
2. If you Have 6.0 or 6.0sp1 and are still having problems you can try
to revert then install 5.5sp2 (Use the steps above but just choose the
option to "restore the previous windows configuration" instead of
choosing to repair it). You can then either install 5.5sp2 or
reinstall 6.0sp1.
Good Luck,
J.
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Scenario:
Dual boot main computer: WinME/PCLinuxOS - 700 Pentium III, 40Gig Hard
Drive
Second computer: Win95 - Celeron 366, 10Gig Hard Drive
Interesting facts:
1. My windows 95 setup runs as fast as the Windows ME system.
2. Windows ME was having problems with Internet Explorer 6.0sp1 so I
downgraded to 5.5SP2 and it's very stable again.
3. Open Office runs equally well on PCLinuxOS, Windows ME, and Windows
95, even though it didn't find Java when installing on 95. It appears
to make no difference in functionality.
4. According to my computer illiterate wife PCLinuxOS is easier to use
than Windows ME. She has actually been able to install programs and
change her own password in PCLinuxOS.
I want to say a special "thank you" for whoever the Microsoft guru was
that gave me the link to on-disk.com.
Yes, Internet Explorer 5.5 was hard to find. I tried the evolt.org
download and it just gave me a bunch of DOS errors that quickly
disappeared and wouldn't install IE5.5. Against my better judgment I
checked with on-disk.com as a Microsoft guru in this news group
recommended and got the full install version of Internet Explorer 5.5
SP (service pack 2). To my surprise it installed perfectly and is
running great on both Windows ME and Windows 95.
Yes, Linux can be easier to install and use than Microsoft Windows.
PCLinuxOS is easier to use. You can even run it just from the CD
without changing anything on the computer to test it out. I ended up
installing it and an rarely go into Windows ME anymore.
When I was at on-disk getting IE5.5 I saw the CD for Open Office and
got it along with PCLinuxOS (a great review there by the way). I was
already using Open Office on my Windows ME computer but sometimes that
system is occupied by my wife and wanted it on the Windows 95 system
also. The cool thing about on-disk is that you can get about anything
downloaded and sent to you on a CD, a great thing if you use dialup
like we do and want to download huge things like operating systems.
Here are the direct links to the 3 items I got at on-disk in case you
are looking for them like I was:
Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 -
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php?products_id=32
Open Office 1.1 -
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php?products_id=29
PCLinuxOS -
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php?products_id=37
"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<092f01c3faf9$5df4f080$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I can ping out by name or ip address, but my internet
> explorer will not open. any suggestions?
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