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re: Explorer Errors Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 6:43 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1098 messages posted) Have a look in Add/Remove Programs for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Then select the Add/Remove button you will have an option to retore original configuaration. This should put back your original version of IE. Do that and restart the comp and do a fresh install of IE6.0 SP1. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer Errors Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 7:26 am Posted by Donald K Allen (8 messages posted) Checked Add/Remove Programs and didnot find Internet Explorer. What Now? On Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 6:43 am, Keith Stanier wrote: >Have a look in Add/Remove Programs for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Then select >the Add/Remove button you will have an option to retore original configuaration. >This should put back your original version of IE. Do that and restart the comp and >do a fresh install of IE6.0 SP1. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer Errors Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 3:31 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1098 messages posted) So what was you IE before v5.0? Well I use Win98 I have IE6.0 on a CD no problem. When I wanted to upgrade to IE6.0 SP1 you download an small installation file from M$ and run that. This starts the installation process but you need web access to download all the necessary files. I use Dial-up so this process can take up to 1 hour. I normally format and rebuild every 6 months. One time I lost my web connection and so the process stopped. I got the connection back and it carried on downloading and installed no problem. It downloads all the files to a folder in Windows. So as I don't have this problem everytime I want to do a rebuild I burnt all the files from this Windows folder to a CD. The next time I did a rebuild I put the CD in and ran the setup. I got a message back you need to be connected to the internet for additional files. I connected for a couple of minutes and it installed no problem. Another way you can install IE6.0 SP1 is get some ones ISP installation CD. I use BTinternet and on their later installation CD is IE6.0 SP1 so I don't need to download anything now. Check a few ISP's of your friends. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer Errors Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 6:22 pm Posted by Donald K Allen (8 messages posted) I have Explorer 5.5 in now, the problem is that the current Explorer 5.5 is causing error messages so I can't download anything at the present. On Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 3:31 pm, Keith Stanier wrote: >So what was you IE before v5.0? > >Well I use Win98 I have IE6.0 on a CD no problem. When I wanted to upgrade to IE6.0 >SP1 you download an small installation file from M$ and run that. This starts the >installation process but you need web access to download all the necessary files. >I use Dial-up so this process can take up to 1 hour. > >I normally format and rebuild every 6 months. One time I lost my web connection and >so the process stopped. I got the connection back and it carried on downloading and >installed no problem. It downloads all the files to a folder in Windows. > >So as I don't have this problem everytime I want to do a rebuild I burnt all the >files from this Windows folder to a CD. The next time I did a rebuild I put the CD >in and ran the setup. I got a message back you need to be connected to the internet >for additional files. I connected for a couple of minutes and it installed no problem. > >Another way you can install IE6.0 SP1 is get some ones ISP installation CD. I use >BTinternet and on their later installation CD is IE6.0 SP1 so I don't need to download >anything now. > >Check a few ISP's of your friends. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer Errors Monday, October 30, 2006 at 4:34 am Posted by Peter (195 messages posted) First of all,why not install Firefox? This will at least solve the download problem.I prefer it to IE anyway. Looking at another reply - why on Earth would anyone want to format and reload every 6 months? ME can run indefinitely surely.I'm coming up to 5 years with my installation , I run CrapCleaner and Diskeeper on shut down which I would recommend to everyone. On Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 6:22 pm, Donald K Allen wrote: >I have Explorer 5.5 in now, the problem is that the current Explorer 5.5 is causing >error messages so I can't download anything at the present. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer Errors Monday, October 30, 2006 at 12:37 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1098 messages posted) You do get problems occuring in Windows, I don't care what OS you are using and the backup won't restore. Plus you get odd files appearing from the different apps you install and that don't uninstall, so its easy just to format and reinstall. I'm lucky at the moment its been 18 months since the last rebuild. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Explorer Errors Friday, November 3, 2006 at 12:17 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (32675 messages posted) I dont' know if you've resolved your problem or not, but there are plenty of other browsers to use besides IE. But IE should be functioning properly regardless, since it's part of Windows. Many users have more than one browser installed that they use. I do know that IE 5.5 is the original version installed with Windows ME. That's why you can't go back to previous configuration. Furthermore, if you've never updated it, you won't be able to run the repair tool. Download another browser to use and see if you can get IE 6 downloaded and installed. 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