Broken address toolbar and broken run dialog.

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Daniel

I should have stated that I'm using Windows XP Pro with
all the latest service packs and security fixes. I'm also
using IE version 6 with the latest SP and all patches.

After reading "Reinstall IE6" posted by Michael earlier
today, I looked into reinstalling Internet Explorer
Service Pack 1, as was suggested by a responder. I only
get the message: "Setup has detected a newer version of
Internet Explorer already installed on this system. Setup
cannot continue."
 
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Robert Aldwinckle

get the message: "Setup has detected a newer version of
Internet Explorer already installed on this system.

Daniel,

Are you referring to Method 2 in MSKB 318378?

XPsp1 includes IE6sp1 so I would expect you would get that error
message if you tried installing IE6sp1 over it, especially since you have
some of its modules from pre-SP2 patches.

Notice that the article doesn't exactly refer to your combination of software.
I'm not sure exactly what they are referring to when they say
<quote>
The information in this article applies to:
....
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows XP SP1
</quote>
since that combination of product versions is impossible.

The article doesn't mention the pre-SP2 patch factor at all.


Also you aren't being clear if you are trying to install IE6sp1 as a result of
visiting WU as suggested by the article or attempting to install IE6sp1
from some other source. (E.g. for all we know WU might be resolving
some version conflicts for you under the covers while ostensibly only
installing IE6sp1.) In any case I suspect that something is being said
tacitly by not saying just "reinstall IE6sp1".

Previously I have speculated that since the procedure was originally
written only for the combination XP and IE6 that it might be necessary
to get back to that combination before attempting it. E.g. by uninstalling
any pre-SP2 patches in the reverse order that they were applied and
uninstalling XPsp1. One nice thing about that idea is that it would give
you the chance to test whether each uninstall procedure might effect a sort
of mini-repair when a back-level .dll was reinstalled. If you were lucky
it might even change your symptom before you got all the way back to
the point where you would have to commit yourself to reinstalling IE6sp1.

On a different tack, if you happened to have installed IE6sp1 as a
separate product before updating to XPsp1 you may find that you
have setupwbv.dll and be able to do a manual IE6 repair.
For example, if you have that module you could try to Run...

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance

The only alternative to IE Repair that we are left with is manually
re-registering select .dll. So presumably we could approximate
an IE Repair by re-registering whatever FixIE.inf would cause
to be re-registered. (The only difference that I can see is that it
would not be done at boot time.) In your case as a guess for a starting
point I would choose shdocvw.dll, browseui.dll and urlmon.dll.

When doing any update which involves module replacement
in System32 you should make sure that nothing is going to interfere
with it. So as a precaution disable any security programs you may
have before doing any uninstall or install.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
 

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