Re: PC help?


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"Bob Dorgan" <dor...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I haven't been able to log onto the internet for 3 days, but my
email and usenet works.
After spending 2 hours on the phone with a tech from my ISP, he's
convinced that I have to uninstall internet explorer and reload
it.

How the hell do I do that?
if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'll give you one
of Norm's guitars.

dorgan

If IE is causing you problems, have you recently installed Service
Pack III? I heard that it causes a LOT of problems. (You might
have inadvertantly installed it if you have your computer set for
automatic updates.) If so, try unintalling the entire service pack
(from your control panel). You cannot uninstall just your IE
browser... because it is part of Windows.

You might want to just try reinstalling your Windows (if you have
the original boot disk), to see if that fixes the problem. Or, if
you ca
n
get to a computer and download the Service Pack II onto a jump
drive, try installing that. I believe that any time you are
installing Windows updates (service packs, etc.) it automatically
installs/updates your browser. Of course, once you can use your
browser and get online, you can then go ahead and download
Firefox.

I use Firefox for almost everything, but I have a "View in IE"
option for those websites which will not work in IE.

Best,

Arlene

I've been using IE7 with XP Service Pack 3 since it came out with no
problems. I tried Firefox, but there are still too many websites
that don't work well with it. One browser is enough. :-)

Steve Hawkins

OK, but I've got 200 computers to take care of and pretty much the
only ones that have trouble with malware, etc. are folks who insist
on
using IE.

YMMV

It does. :-)

Steve Hawkins


The .5% of folks that never had trouble with their Vega thought it was
a
great car :-)


cheers

Paul

Your logic and stat are highly questionable. I've never bought into the
debate that MS products are the issue. What is the real issue, is the
number of systems available for malware writers to attack with one piece
of code.

NO system is bulletproof.

Steve Hawkins

Steve ... though I've had problems with IE it was just a joke.

cheers

Paul


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