PA Bear
January 26th 06, 06:12 AM
X-post to WinME General.
If he'd (1) installed IE6 and then (2) reinstalled WinME without first
having (3) uninstalled IE6, he's now gotten himself into what the WinME pros
call "version soup".
Here's MVP Noel Paton's fix: http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/ReInIE.htm
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
Margo Guda wrote:
> My partner's computer runs under Windows ME, and last week we
> reinstalled it after trouble with the modem (the modem had to be
> replaced, but before we found that out, we had reinstalled windows from
> the install cd). When we did this, we got ie5.5 back. Wanting to go back
> to ie6, the install fails; Help just says the files are correct but the
> installation fails. We've tried windows update, and also downloaded the
> complete setup (ie service pack 1) from Microsoft. It downloads OK, then
> starts the installation, and exits at over 90%. We had installed this
> before, and then it went fine. What can be the matter, and how can I fix
> it? Thanks in advance.
>
> Margo Guda.
If he'd (1) installed IE6 and then (2) reinstalled WinME without first
having (3) uninstalled IE6, he's now gotten himself into what the WinME pros
call "version soup".
Here's MVP Noel Paton's fix: http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/ReInIE.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
Margo Guda wrote:
> My partner's computer runs under Windows ME, and last week we
> reinstalled it after trouble with the modem (the modem had to be
> replaced, but before we found that out, we had reinstalled windows from
> the install cd). When we did this, we got ie5.5 back. Wanting to go back
> to ie6, the install fails; Help just says the files are correct but the
> installation fails. We've tried windows update, and also downloaded the
> complete setup (ie service pack 1) from Microsoft. It downloads OK, then
> starts the installation, and exits at over 90%. We had installed this
> before, and then it went fine. What can be the matter, and how can I fix
> it? Thanks in advance.
>
> Margo Guda.