IE.8

[sil...@longjohn.com]

I Have a problem I have been trying to get Internet explorer to run on
my computer for over a year now it used to work ok but while doing a
an automatic Microsoft update to some programs and I have a power
outage which I believe scrambled or lost a file or two the ie program
has not worked for over a year now no matter what adjustments I have
made to the Internet explorer settings I sat here for months changing
one setting at a time going back and changing another I did the same
for my anti virus software also did the same to my zone control
firewall...

now here is where I require some information some one told me if I
have a missing Microsoft file I could put my XP disk in and do a
"repair" but I am not sure how to do this I am worried it might go
ahead and erase and format the hard drive and I have about three
hundred gigs of data I don't want to lose. So is it possible to do a
repair this guy seemed to think that in the repair mode it would just
replace any missing files and leave any files that are newer than the
ones on the disc is this true if so how do I do repair on my system I
would really appreciate some help here cos I don't even know if I'm in
the right news group I saw ie8 I haven't got a clue what an leak is
please help if you can I have read everything I can find but have not
found any one with this problem I have also removed all traces of IE
and tried reinstalling IE 6. IE7. IE8 none will work of course I
removed each one and rebooted before trying the next if I go to
program access and defaults/add remove windows components it just
loads up IE with a black screen there is some thing very wrong here
please help if you can I'm desperate

TIA

Silver
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