IE6 keeps crashing

[traumajohn]

Hi,
I am running a pc with ME fresh installed. I did all the updates and
everything looks okay but I was having issues first with IE5. It was crashing
and giving me the error that it encountered a problem and needs to close. I
haven't done any web surfing or anything just a new clean reinstall and the
updates. I have emptied the temp internet files and did a disk cleanup. When
I launch IE it loads the web page "aol" and then gives the error and keeps
doing so. I have turned off and restarted and I get the same. I have rebooted
and got the same.
Thanks,
John

 

[rob^_^]

Hi John,

Sounds like your fresh install also got the latest (and incompatible with
IE5) versions of the AOL toolbar.

Try starting IE with Toolbars and Browser Helpers disabled.

Control Panel>Internet Options - Advanced tab, uncheck "Enable third-party
browser helper objects" (or something like that... its been a long time for
ME)

Then try starting IE.

If that works you may consider leaving that setting or uninstalling all of
your IE Addons as IE5 is not the most secure platform for Addons and most
toolbars have now been converted to work with IE7 and later.

I would actually recommend that you install and use Firefox v2 instead if
you are using ME. (bite my tongue).

Regards.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

[Crossposted to WinME General]

Did you uninstall IE6 SP1 *before* you reinstalled WinME?

 

[traumajohn]

I did a reinstall/format of Windows ME. Then did windows updates which
installed ie6. My pc crashed again yesterday and came back up with ie5.5.
When I try to reinstall ie6 I get an error that it can't install all of most
of the items and then stops the installation. I looked for ie5.5 and ie6 in
the add remove programs and didn't see either one there.
John

[Crossposted to WinME General]

Did you uninstall IE6 SP1 *before* you reinstalled WinME?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

I am running a pc with ME fresh installed. I did all the updates and
everything looks okay but I was having issues first with IE5. It was
crashing and giving me the error that it encountered a problem and needs
to
close. I haven't done any web surfing or anything just a new clean
reinstall and the updates. I have emptied the temp internet files and did
a
disk cleanup. When I launch IE it loads the web page "aol" and then gives
the error and keeps doing so. I have turned off and restarted and I get
the
same. I have rebooted and got the same.
Thanks,
John

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

We already know what you've done. Please answer my question, John: Did you
or did you not uninstall IE6 SP1 *before* you reinstalled WinME?

I did a reinstall/format of Windows ME. Then did windows updates which
installed ie6. My pc crashed again yesterday and came back up with ie5.5.
When I try to reinstall ie6 I get an error that it can't install all of
most
of the items and then stops the installation. I looked for ie5.5 and ie6
in
the add remove programs and didn't see either one there.
John

[Crossposted to WinME General]

Did you uninstall IE6 SP1 *before* you reinstalled WinME?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

I am running a pc with ME fresh installed. I did all the updates and
everything looks okay but I was having issues first with IE5. It was
crashing and giving me the error that it encountered a problem and needs
to
close. I haven't done any web surfing or anything just a new clean
reinstall and the updates. I have emptied the temp internet files and
did
a
disk cleanup. When I launch IE it loads the web page "aol" and then
gives
the error and keeps doing so. I have turned off and restarted and I get
the
same. I have rebooted and got the same.
Thanks,
John

 

[traumajohn]

I appologize. I thought that it was understood that I formated and
reinstalled. So I guess the answer to the question is, no. I did not
uninstall ie6 prior to the reformat and reinstall of ME. I thought that a
format and repartition and reinstall would have cleaned out all the ie 6
files and folders.
John

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

1. Please reply to a post, not to your original post.

2. Please quote the post to which you're replying.

3. Please continue the crosspost to WinME General newsgroup (where someone's
sure to see & reply to this thread).

....or you can review these archived threads about "version hell" =>
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...oft.public.windowsme.general&q="version+hell"

 

[mariocolinga]

Please blow me

 

[traumajohn]

Sorry PA Bear. I did reply to a post and I didn't think it was th eoriginal
one. I have used the news groups for years and you are the only one that
mentioned that I have done something incorrect. I will continue the cross
post to general though. Thanks for posting back. Please let me kno w what I
actually did because my posts look like they are answering the posted
questions/answers to me.
Thanks,
John

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Review these archived conversations for a fix, John:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ral/search?q="version+hell"&start=0&scoring=d
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/