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Windows ME Right Click Problem and Iexplorer6 Problem
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Howdy all I have 2 problems which should not be related. 1. Right click on any Icon and my computer freezes. I can right click on the desktop no problem, just not over an icon. Right click within any program is just fine. Its just right clicking over the 'Start menu' and right clicking over any icons in any explorer window and the computer freezes. Any ideas 2. Cant seem to ever be able to install internet Explorer 6. I have tried for about 9 months now. Tried from cd rom and online. Just keeps wanting to shut the computer down to finish installation then when I reboot and wants to go over it all again(the continue installation process and then shut down). Sometimes it says things like ' Previous installation did not complete must start again to complete installation',.try that and then it just goes one the 'shut down...complete...shut down' cycle all over again. I have tried about 10 times now over the last year...each time having to shut down etc about 10 times then I just give up. Any ideas? Windows ME ..all updates are done. Except IE6(of course). 2.8Ghz cpu 80 Gig HDD 7200rpm defraged. Help me |
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Your IE6 problem......
Are you by any chance running Norton? - try running SCANREG /FIX from a command prompt , then rebooting to Safe Mode, and installing IE from there. See if that helps. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) 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 "CJunk" wrote in message ... Windows ME Howdy all I have 2 problems which should not be related. 1. Right click on any Icon and my computer freezes. I can right click on the desktop no problem, just not over an icon. Right click within any program is just fine. Its just right clicking over the 'Start menu' and right clicking over any icons in any explorer window and the computer freezes. Any ideas 2. Cant seem to ever be able to install internet Explorer 6. I have tried for about 9 months now. Tried from cd rom and online. Just keeps wanting to shut the computer down to finish installation then when I reboot and wants to go over it all again(the continue installation process and then shut down). Sometimes it says things like ' Previous installation did not complete must start again to complete installation',.try that and then it just goes one the 'shut down...complete...shut down' cycle all over again. I have tried about 10 times now over the last year...each time having to shut down etc about 10 times then I just give up. Any ideas? Windows ME ..all updates are done. Except IE6(of course). 2.8Ghz cpu 80 Gig HDD 7200rpm defraged. Help me |
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"CJunk" wrote in message ... Windows ME Howdy all I have 2 problems which should not be related. 1. Right click on any Icon and my computer freezes. I can right click on the desktop no problem, just not over an icon. Right click within any program is just fine. Its just right clicking over the 'Start menu' and right clicking over any icons in any explorer window and the computer freezes. Any ideas 2. Cant seem to ever be able to install internet Explorer 6. I have tried for about 9 months now. Tried from cd rom and online. Just keeps wanting to shut the computer down to finish installation then when I reboot and wants to go over it all again(the continue installation process and then shut down). Sometimes it says things like ' Previous installation did not complete must start again to complete installation',.try that and then it just goes one the 'shut down...complete...shut down' cycle all over again. I have tried about 10 times now over the last year...each time having to shut down etc about 10 times then I just give up. Any ideas? Windows ME ..all updates are done. Except IE6(of course). 2.8Ghz cpu 80 Gig HDD 7200rpm defraged. Help me On problem #1, do you use the "eraser" utility? This can cause the right click problem following some of the security upgrades. |
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"jimc" wrote in message ... "CJunk" wrote in message ... Windows ME Howdy all I have 2 problems which should not be related. 1. Right click on any Icon and my computer freezes. I can right click on the desktop no problem, just not over an icon. Right click within any program is just fine. Its just right clicking over the 'Start menu' and right clicking over any icons in any explorer window and the computer freezes. Any ideas 2. Cant seem to ever be able to install internet Explorer 6. I have tried for about 9 months now. Tried from cd rom and online. Just keeps wanting to shut the computer down to finish installation then when I reboot and wants to go over it all again(the continue installation process and then shut down). Sometimes it says things like ' Previous installation did not complete must start again to complete installation',.try that and then it just goes one the 'shut down...complete...shut down' cycle all over again. I have tried about 10 times now over the last year...each time having to shut down etc about 10 times then I just give up. Any ideas? Windows ME ..all updates are done. Except IE6(of course). 2.8Ghz cpu 80 Gig HDD 7200rpm defraged. Help me On problem #1, do you use the "eraser" utility? This can cause the right click problem following some of the security upgrades. Yes I do..but I have had Eraser on my computers for like 4 years. On this computer for about 8 months problem #1 has only been for about 3 weeks now . Actually now that I think about it.......for the first time ever I decided to use Erasers Schedule features about the same time this problem started. hmmmm.....ok will uninstall....and check it out. thx |
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"jimc" wrote in message ... "CJunk" wrote in message ... Windows ME Howdy all I have 2 problems which should not be related. 1. Right click on any Icon and my computer freezes. I can right click on the desktop no problem, just not over an icon. Right click within any program is just fine. Its just right clicking over the 'Start menu' and right clicking over any icons in any explorer window and the computer freezes. Any ideas 2. Cant seem to ever be able to install internet Explorer 6. I have tried for about 9 months now. Tried from cd rom and online. Just keeps wanting to shut the computer down to finish installation then when I reboot and wants to go over it all again(the continue installation process and then shut down). Sometimes it says things like ' Previous installation did not complete must start again to complete installation',.try that and then it just goes one the 'shut down...complete...shut down' cycle all over again. I have tried about 10 times now over the last year...each time having to shut down etc about 10 times then I just give up. Any ideas? Windows ME ..all updates are done. Except IE6(of course). 2.8Ghz cpu 80 Gig HDD 7200rpm defraged. Help me On problem #1, do you use the "eraser" utility? This can cause the right click problem following some of the security upgrades. That worked......might as well go and install IE6 and see if Eraser had been screwing with that all this time. |
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