Need Ideas to Help A Friend with IE6 Problem - Win 98

[Steve]

Hi!

I have a friend in another state that is having problems with her Win
98 computer accessing the interent to browse. I had her run Trend's
House Call and it found 12 occurences of malware / viruses. I am not
sure what they were, but she got a message that IE6 was corrupted. I
talked her through trying to repair IE6 and she learned that it needs
to be reinstalled.

She can not find her Win 98 CD and I am trying to find a way for her to
replace the existing IE6 installation. SHe can access the net through
PalTalk and such but can not browse. I tried sending her the entire
IE6 package that I downloaded from an online archive, but the file (76+
mb) was too large to transfer. I could send her a CD, but that would
take time, as she is out of state. She really uses the net as her
lifeline, since she is to a great degree house bound.

I suggested that she try to find a copy of the AOL distribution CD
(those "free offers" that hang everywhere till you need them. LOL) But
she can not find that CD either.

I think she has Lime Wire already loaded on her system. Is there a way
to transfer an 80 mb file over Lime Wire to her computer?? Or can
anyone suggest another approach.

I would appreciate any ideas - this lady has been disabled and depends
on the computer for entertainment and outside contact.

Thanks!

Steve

 

[Roger]

Hi!

I have a friend in another state that is having problems with her Win
98 computer accessing the interent to browse. I had her run Trend's
House Call and it found 12 occurences of malware / viruses. I am not
sure what they were, but she got a message that IE6 was corrupted. I
talked her through trying to repair IE6 and she learned that it needs
to be reinstalled.

She can not find her Win 98 CD and I am trying to find a way for her to
replace the existing IE6 installation. SHe can access the net through
PalTalk and such but can not browse. I tried sending her the entire
IE6 package that I downloaded from an online archive, but the file (76+
mb) was too large to transfer. I could send her a CD, but that would
take time, as she is out of state. She really uses the net as her
lifeline, since she is to a great degree house bound.

I suggested that she try to find a copy of the AOL distribution CD
(those "free offers" that hang everywhere till you need them. LOL) But
she can not find that CD either.

I think she has Lime Wire already loaded on her system. Is there a way
to transfer an 80 mb file over Lime Wire to her computer?? Or can
anyone suggest another approach.

I would appreciate any ideas - this lady has been disabled and depends
on the computer for entertainment and outside contact.

Thanks!

Steve

IE 6 on W/98 is not the same as IE 6 on W/XP. For an old and
unsupported operating system like W/98, you best bet is to try an
alternative browser such as Opera or Firefox. Opera is the smallest
download (4mb?) and runs faster than IE 6 or Firefox. It has a default
view that shows multiple browser windows as tabs. This can be changed
with configuration options. Once over a small learning hump, your
friend will have much less trouble because Opera has a small percent of
the market and is not much of a target for malware and viruses.

Opera and Firefox do not support the MS Active X component (a major
source of problems) so they can not be used with the Window Update
feature. But with W/98, your friend is not going to get any updates
anyway so this is not a big loss.

Roger