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re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site
Friday, April 6, 2007 at 4:49 pm
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Posted by dhm (990 messages posted)


You will still need Internet Exploder for some sites. Avoid them when possible but there still are sites that use IE's mistakes as if they were features.

Since Microsoft is hassling you about downloading ie6setup.exe (which installs as IE 6.0 SP 1) here is a site with many download mirrors for it:

Or you may be able to skip any download. IE6 may still be on your drive. Use Start > Find and look for ie6setup.exe. Look for the file date Feb 5, 2004 5:17pm.



On Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 10:59 pm, Chris wrote:
>So I reinstalled win98 and got online with IE 4.0, now I know I need to update it
>so I go to Microsoft.com. I try and get to the download section to get a new ver.
>of IE, but everything is all screwed up. Some text is super small and some pages
>won't load at all.
>I search around on the net for another browser but the site either locks me up or
>when I do actually download a browser such as IE5 and try and install it I get the
>message that "the download location is damaged, please clear your browser cache".
>I delete
>temporary internet files and try again and it says the same thing. I think maybe
>another brower might let me access the microsoft site so I can update 98, I download
>and install netscape communicator which doesn't crash as much but still won't let
>me use
>the microsoft site. On other sites some of the text turns into a bunch of square
>when I first open the page and text is overlapping and looking weird.
>
>So, what should I be trying to do to fix these problems.
>
>Thanks


Written in response to:
Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 10:59 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Keith Stanier: Friday, April 6, 2007 at 5:45 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Wed, Apr 4, 2007, 10:59 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (gewg_: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 1:10 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 6:53 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (jack hall: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 8:51 am)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Steve: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 11:10 am)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Chris: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 1:37 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Steve: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 6:31 am)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (soporific: Thu, Apr 5, 2007, 9:53 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC (Myst: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:25 pm)
-Read ALL the post in a thread BEFORE posting to that thread (gewg_: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:37 pm)
*re: Read ALL the post in a thread BEFORE posting to that thread (Myst: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 1:06 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC (Steve: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:42 pm)
*re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 it says I got a MAC (Myst: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 1:00 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (dhm: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 4:49 pm)
-re: Reinstalled 98, Can't update 98 because of crashing on microsoft site (Keith Stanier: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 5:45 pm)
-Internet Exploder 6 is on your old AOL CDs (gewg_: Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 6:09 pm)
*IE6 SP1 on most ISP CD's (DNA: Sat, Apr 7, 2007, 3:43 pm)
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