I want to Unistall/ Reinstall My version of I/E Should be easy eh ? Not so If I Contol Panel/Add/Remove programme I receive a dialogue box with three radio buttons 1) Add a component 2) Repair I/E 3) Restore previous version Option 3 is 'grayed out' How do I unistall from here ? my version is 6.0.2800.1106 (Update version SP1) Help please Keith

You can't uninstall IE. It's deeply integrated into Windows. You can do a Repair, but that's about it. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

Thanks (I think) :-)) Jennifer I did believe Me was the last Windows O/S to allow a simple 'uninstall' of I/E. Wrong again eh ? Why do you think option 3 (return to original version) is grayed out ? Keith

I apologise for labouring this point. After Jennifer gave me the bad news I have been trawling around Microsoft help. This page seems to suggest it is possible to uninstall (or return to previous version) of I/E http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293907/?sd=RMVP#XSLTH3148121123120121120120 My system will not co-operate 1) I am not allowed an uninstall 2) Of the three options - Add a component/Repair/Restore previous. The one I really need (restore previous) is grayed out Anyone know a fix ? I hope so Keith

Did you try the command near the bottom of the url you posted? rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Setup\SETUP.EXE" /g "C:\WINDOWS\IE Uninstall Log.Txt" There is a file available on this page that claims to remove IE6: "IE6REMOV.ZIP" I've never used it myself, but the rest of the information on the page seems to be valid.

Hi Leroi Greetings from England and thanks for your posting. Yes I did try the command but that just bought up the identical dialogue box with the wretched radio button 3 grayed out as before. I have downloaded the remove tool (thanks for the link to let me do that). I now have to psyche myself up to use it. At my level I am terrified using tools that I am not familiar with. The fear being I might dig a great big hole for myself that I can not climb out of. I am going to take a walk then have a stiff drink and see if I am feeling brave enough to hit the key :-)) Thanks again for your help. Keith

You're welcome. It's a very good idea to have a good imaging program like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, that way if you mess something up badly, you can just reload the image (from CD/DVD or external hard drive) and be back where you started so you can try again. I think it's one of the better software investments you can make. Ghost (2003) has saved me a couple of times when I made some serious mistakes.