Busted IE Re-installing on xp SP2
 

Hi does anyone know how to force a reinstal of IE when things go badly wrong, I have a mchine that will not launch IE and there is no mention of IE in the add/remove proggy list, so no repair option...

This also seems to be cuasing the machine to take 5-10 mins to boot up.. and well I knwo a reformat is in the offing, just wondered if anyone knew of a magical fix...

Andy

Re: Busted IE Re-installing on xp SP2
 

Internet Explorer is under "add/remove windows components" on winXP, not sure if you can repair it there though. If you can't, try:

sfc /scannow

from the run dialogue as that may help. Failing that... install firefox :p:

Re: Busted IE Re-installing on xp SP2
 

As far as I know you can't re-load IE without reloading SP2 as it was updated within SP2 itself.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...1/default.mspx
So you may need to get SP2 off, reboot and then load SP2 back on again to try and restore IE.
From the description in the box when you go into add remove programmes/ windows components it only removes access to Internet Explorer. It doesn't seem to remove the software itself.
Try here for some info on removing IE manually though
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378/EN-US/

Re: Busted IE Re-installing on xp SP2
 

Is this any good?

Re: Busted IE Re-installing on xp SP2
 

has it been disabled in the program access?

start/set program access and defaults