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Repair IE
This is really tricky in WinME. Best confine this to the WinME newsgroup to
which I'm crossposting this reply. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) rexmann wrote: Hi all I am running Windows Millenium. I want to uninstall IE and reinstall with a fresh downloaded copy from Microsoft. Is there any problems with doing this. I want to get rid of some adware (have tried all the remove software) Also, I was told there is a repair facility in the control panel for IE. How would I run this? Any help appreciated Kind regards Rexmann |
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Two-part question, so two-part answer....... 1) Repairing IE - Reboot to Safe Mode Go to Add/Remove Programs and repair Internet Explorer from there. Go to the entry for 'Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and Internet Tools' in Add/Remove Programs Click on Remove - and click on Repair on the window that pops up Reboot on request to Normal Mode If the above entry isn't there, you first need to uninstall all the patches applied, then do the repair, then reapply the patches The patches are listed in Add/Remove under the names 'Internet Explorer Qxxxxxx' highlight, click Remove - reboot if requested. Repeat until the MSIE6SP1 entry appears - then repair as above. 2) if you find that you really can't do anything in IE6 (or even uninstall it properly), then I suspect that you may have reinstalled ME over itself without uninstalling IE6 first - in which case your only recourse will be to (as you already suggested) uninstall IE completely, and reinstall it. Unfortunately, this process break a number of other things in Win ME, because of the way that IE is bound into the OS, and it can only be done with proper preparation. - look here for instructions on the procedure (and either email the site's feedback link, or post back here with any questions - BEFORE you start!) http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/ReInIE.htm HTH -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "PA Bear" wrote in message ... This is really tricky in WinME. Best confine this to the WinME newsgroup to which I'm crossposting this reply. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) rexmann wrote: Hi all I am running Windows Millenium. I want to uninstall IE and reinstall with a fresh downloaded copy from Microsoft. Is there any problems with doing this. I want to get rid of some adware (have tried all the remove software) Also, I was told there is a repair facility in the control panel for IE. How would I run this? Any help appreciated Kind regards Rexmann |
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Noel Paton wrote: Hi. Two-part question, so two-part answer....... 1) Repairing IE - Reboot to Safe Mode Go to Add/Remove Programs and repair Internet Explorer from there. Go to the entry for 'Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and Internet Tools' in Add/Remove Programs Click on Remove - and click on Repair on the window that pops up Reboot on request to Normal Mode If the above entry isn't there, you first need to uninstall all the patches applied, then do the repair, then reapply the patches The patches are listed in Add/Remove under the names 'Internet Explorer Qxxxxxx' highlight, click Remove - reboot if requested. Repeat until the MSIE6SP1 entry appears - then repair as above. 2) if you find that you really can't do anything in IE6 (or even uninstall it properly), then I suspect that you may have reinstalled ME over itself without uninstalling IE6 first - in which case your only recourse will be to (as you already suggested) uninstall IE completely, and reinstall it. Unfortunately, this process break a number of other things in Win ME, because of the way that IE is bound into the OS, and it can only be done with proper preparation. - look here for instructions on the procedure (and either email the site's feedback link, or post back here with any questions - BEFORE you start!) http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/ReInIE.htm HTH "PA Bear" wrote in message ... This is really tricky in WinME. Best confine this to the WinME newsgroup to which I'm crossposting this reply. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) rexmann wrote: Hi all I am running Windows Millenium. I want to uninstall IE and reinstall with a fresh downloaded copy from Microsoft. Is there any problems with doing this. I want to get rid of some adware (have tried all the remove software) Also, I was told there is a repair facility in the control panel for IE. How would I run this? Any help appreciated Kind regards Rexmann |
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