I have had many a problem with IE--a lot of it my own doing. I would like to wipe IE of the machine and then re-install it. I have OEM disks that will not allow me to selectively retrieve IE. p.s. my IE (ver 6.0)is presently so messed up that I cannot repair it, nothing! Could I install Opera or Netscape, then get rid of IE, then download IE using Opera or Netscape and then do a re-install of IE....is this possible, feasible, workable, stupid? Let it fly!!!! any way to save my IE favorites if I can do this so I may use them once I have new IE installed? If this is wrong let me know....I can take it! Eric

Eric, I believe you would just need to copy or move what is in: C:\WINDOWS\Favorites As for the IE6. Have you tried to go back to 5.50? I'll Try

Yup...I sure have tried. If I could recount what is so frigged up with this I would probably figure it out. Microsux was no help nor was my OEM which want me to clean install just for the silly IE. Suffice it to say that i have so many incomplete installs, etc that my only option is to go back all the way back to the stone age's "gopher"....y'know before the web was known as the web. Thaks for the suggestion, Try

if you're talking about removing all versions if IE from windows it cant be done unless you use 98lite and i'm not sure it would work with ME.

Thanks guru... I guess that answers that! Why does ME give you the option to remove IE explorer in the repair offering? Or does it just revert back to an earlier version? (which of course on mine has incomplete install)

Eric - saving your favorites to a floppy - In IE goto File >> Import / Export and follow the wizard. Post # 22903, Response 25 - newgrl - There are three things to try: 1. Roll Internet Explorer back to IE 5.5. Boot into safe mode to do this, just to make sure nothing is going to interfere with the rollback. You can do this from add/remove programs in the control panel. When you click on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and click the add/remove button, you will be offered some choices. Choose the uninstall to previous version choice. Reboot when prompted. Cross fingers. 3. Reinstall IE 6 if possible. This will have to be done in normal mode as you will have to be connected to the internet. This also may be kind of a pain in the *ss without Explorer working correctly, but there should be an ie6setup.exe file in your c:\windows update setup files folder or c:\windows\windows update setup files. One of the two. Does search work for you? Or do you get the same error message when you open it? I'm guessing you will get the same message, but if not do a search for: ie6setup.exe It should find one in c:\windows update setup files. Connect to the net, then double click on the ie6setup.exe you found. Follow the onscreen instructions to do a typical setup and reinstall IE 6. If you cannot search... Connect to the net and try this: Go to start>>run>>command. Type each of these commands pressing enter after each one: cd.. cd.. cd window~1 ie6setup.exe It may or may not work. Not sure. It's a 32bit program, so starting it in a 16bit environment may not work. 2. An over the top installation to repair whatever is broken here. Before starting the over the top install, you will need to rename some files and remove some registry keys. The instructions for this can be found in this Microsoft Knowledgebase article: How to Remove Internet Explorer 6.0 or Outlook Express 6.0 Before You Reinstall Windows (Q312474) After following the instructions from the article above you can then start setup from c:\winodws\options\install if you installed ME or c:\windows\options\cabs if your OEM company (Dell, HP, etc...) installed ME. You should not lose any settings. It should just repair ME. _____________________________________________ I use opera as my backup browser and like it.

Thanks Vike! and to the rest of ya as well. I have seen so many IE post as of late that I really did not want to add to it, but I am getting so sick of these IE's (and me) screwing up. I am going to give everything here a try. I will let you know how it goes :)