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IE6, it is there, but DOA
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IE6, it is there, but DOA
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Posted by MIKE44665
(1 messages posted)
The short problem is IE6 does nothing when I enter a URL and press enter or click
GO. Outlook works, Old Netscape browser and mail work, IE6 will not. By going to
System Tools I see the following, System Information, Components, Software Enviroment.
Interent Explorer is not listed. On my clone it is and it works. I'm on DSL.
If I try to make a LAN connection from IE or the Wizard it will not finish, clicking
'OK' does nothing, 'OK' stays there, the box must be closed with the 'X'. I have
redone my network TCP/IP 's. All of this from loading a CD that said it would work
with WIN98. I have uninstalled the CD with no luck. It was for a car scanner and
would of let me hook the scanner to the computer with a USB cable. Thanks in advance
for any help, Mike.
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re: IE6, it is there, but DOA
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
MIKE44665 wrote:
|The short problem is IE6 does nothing when I enter a URL[...]
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You shouldn't be using that piece of junk online anyway.
In April 2004, the US Government's computer security
experts
said STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER.
They **repeated** it in June 2004
(when there was a IE-specific infection big enough to make the evening news):
cache
of http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878
NONE of those security holes has been patched since the advisory was issued.
You should gave IE blocked in your software firewall.
It should NEVER be allowed online.
(In addition, because of its INFAMOUS lack of compliance with HTML standards,
many sites have stopped supporting IE6.)
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1235187499
Get yourself a copy of Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera, etc.
(*anything* EXCEPT Internet Exploder) and use **that** instead.
You *will* need Internet Exploder for *some* POORLY-CONSTRUCTED apps
whose developers weren't bright enough to allow the _default_ browser to be used
(e.g. the Windoze Help System).
The IE repair procedure is outlined here:
cache
of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1047224148
|[...]the CD[...]was for a car scanner and would of let me[...]
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{pedantic}"would of" is NOT the same as "would've" ("would have").{/pedantic}
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re: IE6, it is there, but DOA
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Posted by Lee
(172 messages posted)
Repairing IE when it's as bad as yours is often not possible. But it is always possible
to reinstall IE at any time. Unless the iewizard is blocked by a well written trojan
- a fine diagnostic symptom is an IE that won't reinstall in fact or repair for that
matter.
Get the IE installation files onto your hard drive and double click ie6setup.exe
inside the folder of IE install cabs. Be sure to choose Custom and manually select
each item to be reinstalled because there are misleading indicators that will bypass
the correct process and allow you to run the install wizard without really doing
anything. When the items are manually checked, the files for them are then extracted
and used - otherwise it's a waste of time to be here.
In a few minutes you'll be done and you'll need to visit the WinUP site to run some
updates again.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
Get the IE6 installation files from Norton, Office, AOL and any other number of CDs
you probably already have laying around. Or start all over here
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