What if IE is corrupted?

[Guest]

Tonight I will try a number of solutions I've gathered here, but what happens
if IE 6 is corrupted and I cannot get to a download point? I have cable
internet connection, and last night my IE became troublesome. I can access,
for instance, Yahoo or Google, but if I go anywhere else, anywhere, it takes
sometimes 5-6 minutes to load a page, sometimes it loads, sometimes it's
blank, if it loads I cannot go anywhere else on the page - it hangs. I've
done all the proper things - run spyware detection, virus scan, defrag, etc.,
and my MS antispyware is running and so is a firewall.

Downloading is impossible. Took me 20 minutes last night in an attempt to
download a 2 mg file before I cancelled.

If one needs to reinstall IE 6, how do we do this if we can't get to MS's
website and can't download?

Thanks.

 

[Vanguard]

Tonight I will try a number of solutions I've gathered here, but what
happens
if IE 6 is corrupted and I cannot get to a download point? I have
cable
internet connection, and last night my IE became troublesome. I can
access,
for instance, Yahoo or Google, but if I go anywhere else, anywhere, it
takes
sometimes 5-6 minutes to load a page, sometimes it loads, sometimes
it's
blank, if it loads I cannot go anywhere else on the page - it hangs.
I've
done all the proper things - run spyware detection, virus scan,
defrag, etc.,
and my MS antispyware is running and so is a firewall.

Downloading is impossible. Took me 20 minutes last night in an
attempt to
download a 2 mg file before I cancelled.

If one needs to reinstall IE 6, how do we do this if we can't get to
MS's
website and can't download?

Thanks.

Boot from the Windows installation CD and run its Repair (choose the
second Repair since the first one puts you in Recovery Console mode).
That is how you do it for Windows XP. Since you did not divulge WHICH
version of Windows that *you* use, you'll have to figure out how the
repair process works for you.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I forgot that. I'm running Windows XP Home, with SP2 and all current
MS updates.

Would the suggestion below still apply? My PC is 4 years old, so it's
likely an older version of IE that came installed on thePC.

 

[Vanguard]

Sorry, I forgot that. I'm running Windows XP Home, with SP2 and all
current
MS updates.

Would the suggestion below still apply? My PC is 4 years old, so it's
likely an older version of IE that came installed on thePC.

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315341

There is a caveat: you need to use an installation CD that contains the
service pack level that you currently have installed. That is, you
don't want to use a WinXP SP-1 CD to repair a WinXP SP-2 install. If
you have only a WinXP SP-1 CD but you applied SP-2 to your installed
copy of Windows XP, you need to create a slipstreamed version of your
install CD.

To slipstream SP-2 into your Windows XP installation CD (you'll have to
make a new CD for this), see:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp
http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2000_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks Van, I'm so sorry for the numerous questions but.... I do have the
physical disk for SP2 (original CD with the system is WinXP-SP1). I ordered
it as opposed to installing via download. Would I still need to slipstrem,
or can I use the Service Patch 2 disk?

Very kind of you to help, thank you.

 

[Vanguard]

Thanks Van, I'm so sorry for the numerous questions but.... I do have
the
physical disk for SP2 (original CD with the system is WinXP-SP1). I
ordered
it as opposed to installing via download. Would I still need to
slipstrem,
or can I use the Service Patch 2 disk?

If it is a separate CD which only contains the service pack then it
cannot be used alone for a repair. You need to use an installation CD
for a repair. That means you need to slipstream the service pack 2 into
the Windows XP SP-1 CD (you merge them using the hard drive copies to
update WinXP SP-1 to SP-2 and then put the updated version onto a CD and
make it bootable). To be honest, I have actually done a repair from a
WinXP SP-1 install CD against a WinXP SP-2 install but then immediately
followed with all Windows Updates to get back up to the same service
pack and patch level that I had before (because problems arise if you
mix service pack levels for files; i.e., they aren't matched to each
other).