Vista Problem related to Gecko browsers

[Guest]

In Firefox 2.0.0.2 and SeaMonkey Browser 1.1.1, I tried installations of
things that were not acceptible in Vista: an old version of Flash in FF, and
an old theme in Seamonkey. The errant file is xpicleanup.exe in both cases.
It is a clean up utility to get rid of stray junk, but apparently it does not
work.

Now, neither will start normally, giving me an error message that an install
was not completed, to re-start. Both will run fine if I launch them "Run as
Adminstrator".

The Mozillazine people are not at all sympathetic. They have remedies which
I and, apparently from a search of xpicleanup , many others, have tried and
they just do not work.

Any help will be appreciated.

::RSM

 

[kirk jim]

hello... you could try the portable version of firefox and the ziped version
of seamonkey

get the portable ver of FF here
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

and the zip seamonkey here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.1/seamonkey-1.1.1.en-US.win32.zip

These versions work normally like the install versions.. they just reside on
a folder on your HDD


Please tell me if this helps...