On Monday, March 31, 2008 at 10:06 am, Christel Johnson wrote:

>I have IE6SP1 saved and it's also still available at MS, so if all

>else fails I will remove and reinstall it. Guess I got my work cut

>out for a while.


Christel, that is a totally backwards and unneccessary way to view the problem.  
IE never needs to be uninstalled prior to a reinstallation so why attempt it?  Or 
wait for it?  A IE reinstall is 10 times better than any IE repair since you get 
new files and then they get re-registered as per just an IE repair job.

It takes all of five minutes and can be done at any time provided you follow ONE 
cardinal rule - you must manually check the checkboxes for all items previously installed 
after you select Custom and after you have double clicked on the ie6setup.exe file. 
 Copy the IE installation folder to your hard drive and run the setup file from the 
hard drive just for insurance that your re-installation of IE goes off without a 
hitch.  Then delete the folder since you have it on CD.


You do have the wrong version of MDAC files installed, so I would first delete these 
before reinstalling IE.

MSXML.DLL
MSXML3.DLL
MSXML3A.DLL
MSXML3R.DLL
MSXMLA.DLL
MSXMLR.DLL





On my machine they all have the same date of 08/29/02 which indicates that they came 
from the MDAC 2.8 SP1 installation package which I sugest you download first 
and have on hand to install when you've re-installed IE sucessfully.

It would be best to figure out how you got those too higher versioned MDAC files 
on your computer.  And to remove all of them since the 6 files above are not likely 
to be all there is to a MDAC installation.

Since you are also missing the System Information applet which is not an option - 
it is genuinely missing which suggests that your Windows installation itself is borderline 
messed up and perhaps you did not install Windows from the hard drive for example 
but instead used the CD like some kinda noob.  Another way to look at is the System 
Information applet is missing - what else didn't get installed properly that you 
have no clue about?  I don't know how you sleep, but that one would keep me up nights 
untill I could get Windows clean installed from the hard drive. 

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