Tim said:
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I removed SP2 then started the OEM disk,
Removed, as in uninstalled, I think is what happened?
That would revert you to whatever maintenance level
you happened to be at before you installed XPsp2.
If so, you would not be able to download and install IE6.
If you had backed out all XP maintenance, e.g. putting you back
to XP base level, your IE level would be IE6 base level also.
In that case you *would* be able to download and install IE6sp1
(which is what is available at the download site).
I'm not sure how well a base IE6sp1 would integrate with an
IE6 which had a higher level of maintenance that it implied.
It's possible that it might be necessary to uninstall some
of that maintenance separately to get everything down to
a compatible level.
The install procedure is known to give rather odd error messages
in order to signal to the user that the version which failed to install
would regress the current version. I'm wondering if that might be
what your message means.
selected add or remove programs and unchecked the box for IE 6.
If you check the help in the description box for this item
I think you'll see that this does nothing but remove the IE icons
from the Desktop and the Start menu.
The only way to remove IE6 from XP and start over
is given by the procedure at the bottom of KB318378.
Again, it is unclear what you are supposed to do about
maintenance. Logically, uninstalling the base product
would uninstall all the maintenance for it too but the article
doesn't say that or make any reference to it so it's possible
that it may be necessary there too to uninstall individual
patches to achieve the state that the article is referring to.
Wininet.dll (6.0.2737.800; 585,216 kb; 11-18-2004 created date)
This looks as if you have 834707 applied to IE6 base.
BTW instead of created date I think the Date Modified
is what will be significant. E.g. is it 08-Jan-2004?
What does your Help, About show for Update versions: ?
You can capture that string by executing the following script fragment
in your Address bar:
javascript:navigator.appMinorVersion
Note: the property name is case sensitive.
Task manager show the last process as winzip32.exe.
"Last process" may not be what I was thinking of.
Just to be clear, Go to Process, is a right-click option
on items in the Applications tab. So, select the item which represents
the error message window, press the Menu key and use Go to Process.
That should switch you to the Processes tab with the relevant PID
highlighted and the Image Name would be the program
which issued the error message. Was that really winzip32.exe?
Or ie6setup.exe instead?
HTH
Robert
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