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Old January 2nd 06, 01:33 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.setup
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Default Error loading explorer.exe

Mike,
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I was able to reinstall Win ME and am about 90% back to normal.
I tried to upgrade to IE6 SP1, but I keep getting the error message:
"Unable to install all components, close all applications and run setup
again."
I have:
1. diabled the virus protection.
2. Did a ctrl alt del and killed all processes that I felt I was
reasonably able to do without stoping a necessary process. The processes
left running a Explorer, Ccapp, Winmgnt, and Systray.
3. Last year I downloaded IE6 SP1 and did not erase the "Installation
directory". So went to the update site for Microsoft and automatically
downloaded ie6setup.exe and it determined what else was needed. The first
time it just said to reboot.

When I rebooted, the error message was displayed of:
"...Internet Explorer and Internet Tools files on your computer are not the
correct files for your operating system..."

What else should I do?
Thanks in advance for your input.
Doug

"Mike M" wrote:

Doug,

Reinstalling Win Me, which shouldn't be necessary, shouldn't mean losing
any of your data or installed applications although there are various
things that must be done first if you aren't later going to have other
problems such as deleting wmploc.dll if WMP9 has been installed and
deleting various IE6 files if Internet Explorer had been upgraded to IE6
from the IE5 that comes as part of Win Me. For more details see
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm
--
Mike Maltby



Moose46 wrote:

I tried earlier dates to resore the system, but no help. Removing the
Linksys NIC did not help. I did not see any Linksys files in the
iosubsys subdirectory.
I am still hoping that some knows how to fix this problem or can tell
me how to reload the system software without destroying the data.
Thanks,