IE 6 fails to run

[Guest]

Hello,
Thanks in advance for any and all help and advice. You guys are great!
I'm working on a WinXP Home SP2 system with IE6 installed. Both are
fully updated as of today. SBC Yahoo DSL's herd of software is installed as
well.
IE initially worked; indeed, I used it to update. However, after
installing Norton Internet Security 2006, IE will not start. Watching Task
Manager, iexplore.exe loads for a split second, but is then immediately
terminated with no error message, visible window, no errors logged in Event
Viewer, etc. SBC Yahoo's browser still works.
I've uninstalled NIS and run Symantec's complete removal utility, both
with no effect. I've attempted IE6 reinstall using it's .inf file and also
by reinstalling SP2. No effect with either.
I might mention, NIS 2005 was originally on the computer. NIS 2006 was
installed over it and IE still worked. NIS 2006 was then uninstalled to
address problems with LiveUpdate. IE initially failed after installing NIS
2006 the second time.
Also, around this time OpenOffice.org 2.0 was installed, if anyone can
see this as causing a problem. I have since removed it in a vain hope that
it might help. It didn't.
Thanks again, all.

Michael

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Hello,
Thanks in advance for any and all help and advice. You guys are great!
I'm working on a WinXP Home SP2 system with IE6 installed. Both are
fully updated as of today. SBC Yahoo DSL's herd of software is installed
as
well.
IE initially worked; indeed, I used it to update. However, after
installing Norton Internet Security 2006, IE will not start. Watching
Task
Manager, iexplore.exe loads for a split second, but is then immediately
terminated with no error message, visible window, no errors logged in
Event
Viewer, etc. SBC Yahoo's browser still works.
I've uninstalled NIS and run Symantec's complete removal utility, both
with no effect. I've attempted IE6 reinstall using it's .inf file and
also
by reinstalling SP2. No effect with either.
I might mention, NIS 2005 was originally on the computer. NIS 2006 was
installed over it and IE still worked. NIS 2006 was then uninstalled to
address problems with LiveUpdate. IE initially failed after installing
NIS
2006 the second time.
Also, around this time OpenOffice.org 2.0 was installed, if anyone can
see this as causing a problem. I have since removed it in a vain hope
that
it might help. It didn't.
Thanks again, all.

Michael

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