How to get IE5 working again ?
MET
Until the last few days this computer was never connected to the Internet, it
therefore has also never been updated. When she decided to connect it now to
the Internet, I proposed her to install a Firewall/Antivirus program. The one
I have chosen states to run also on Windows 98. When trying to install it the
program requested an Internet Explorer version of at least 5.01 and aborted.
On the Web page from Microsoft I found IE6 for down load. I tried to install
this version, but this resulted in a system crash. Somehow we got the
computer working again, but without being able to use Internet Explorer.
Probably we could get the correct version from the computer's recovery CDs.
But here we have an other problem. We are for about one more year living
abroad. This recovery CD is together with the rest of our household in a
storehouse some thousands of kilometres away.
What can we do in this situation to get a working Internet Explorer (until
this computer gets replaced in about a year) ?
Kai Schaetzl
> About 5 years ago my wife bought her new computer running under Windows 98.
Was that really a *new* computer? It should have never been sold with Win98
at that time. Shudder.
> What can we do in this situation to get a working Internet Explorer (until
> this computer gets replaced in about a year) ?
Reinstall. Frankly, when you decided to put that machine on the Internet to
get IE6 it probably got infected by a worm within ten minutes. *That* may
have actually been what crashed your PC or your IE. Of course, it's also
possible that you are lucky and your PC is not infected yet. There's no way
to detect that from here. Your best bet really is to reinstall the system.
The standard option for getting rid of a hosed IE setup is to revert back to
the earlier IE installation in control panel/software.
Sorry, I can't help you better.
BTW: as the "german" in this newsgroup suggests, this is a German spoken
newsgroup ;-) You may want to try in an English *Win98* group. Maybe someone
can help you there with Win98-specifics.
Kai
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Antwort bitte nur in die Newsgroup! Danke!
Kleindeutsch? Les ich nicht, sorry.
Hilfen zu Windows und OE: http://www.mvps.org & http://oe-faq.de
Hilfen zu IE: http://iefaq.info & http://misitio.ch & http://patch-info.de
MET
Das mit dem deutschsprachigen Forum habe ich erst später bemerkt, meinte im
englischsprachigen Teil zu sein. Danke aber für Deinen Hinweis. Gestern habe
ich es nach einem langen Tag geschafft den IE neu zu installieren. Jemand hat
mir zwei Links zu einem Download einer IE 5.01 Vollinstallation zukommen
lassen (66MB). Damit hat es funktioniert. Da der Computer das Internet noch
nie gesehen hat, konnte dann auch das Update von Microsoft und bei dieser
Geegenheit auch IE6 (?!)runtergeladen werden.
Gruss MET