Dapper
Tue Mar 20 18:26:21 CDT 2007
Thanks for responding Mike.
I agree something very strange is happening. Have run Avast, AdAware and
Spybot and nothing unusual.
Our IE version is 6.0 2800.1106. In the Add/Remove section of Control
Panel, it shows as IE 5 Custom and it also has Q 916281 listed. This is what
I have been trying to repair, however I have just noticed that a little
further down is listed Microsoft IE 6 SP 1 and Internet Tools. So I selected
REPAIR on this one and voila, it repaired itself.
Don't know if this will solve the original problem, exceptional slowness. It
just seems that the system is bloated; it's almost like the system is
thinking before it activates an instruction. I think we may have a problem
with some corruption in OE but I doubt that this would affect the rest of
the system (I won't be able to tackle that one until Friday because dearly
beloved won't let me touch it until then).The only other thing I can see is
that the swap file is up to 83 Mb which appears excessive but I'm not sure
what impact that would have (System is set to manage this feature).
Again, thanks for responding Mike; in double checking for responses to your
query, I at least noticed that I was trying to repair IE 5 instead of
Microsoft IE 6 SP1.
Regards
Dan
"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
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> Something very odd is happening as Repairing shouldn't trigger a system
> reinstall/repair which is what appears to be happening.
>
>> Question: Instead of REPAIR, can I UNINSTALL to an earlier version of
>> IE and once done reinstall the later version???
>
> What version IE do you have installed at the moment? If you have IE6
> installed this should be an option when you select IE6 SP1 and Internet
> Tools and click Add/Remove in Add/Remove programs. The third/bottom
> option being to restore the previous Windows configuration which will drop
> you back to the previous version of IE that was installed..
>
> If IE6 does not appear in Add/Remove programs repairing is a little more
> complicated so instead use Start | Run and in the box type (all as one
> line):
>
> rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE5Maintenance "C:\Program Files\Internet
> Explorer\Setup\SETUP.EXE" /g "C:\Windows\IE Uninstall Log.Txt"
>
> Keep the spaces (after ll32, ance, Program, rnet, EXE", /g, \IE and tall)
> and also the quote marks. Now click OK and follow the prompts.
>
> See MS KB 194177 - "Description of the Internet Explorer Repair tool"
> (
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=194177). This article also applies to
> IE6 although not mentioned in the article.
> --
> Mike Maltby
> mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
>
> Dapper Dan <dapperdan@home.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I guess it is but Norton has never been installed...it was part
>> of the stuff that was included with the Compaq purchase. I notice
>> that data2.cab is also located at C: CPQDRV\DVD. I tried that one and
>> I got a whole bunch of others missing stuff that doesn't appear to be
>> related, for example Disney, Liens\Service and Support,
>> Liens\Community, Liens\Entertainment at which point I stopped using
>> the IGNORE button.
>> To repeat, all I'm trying to do is use the REPAIR function in I.E.
>> Once clicked, I.E goes through an analysis and then a message box
>> appears with the heading
>> "Setup Needs the Next Disk" and inside that box the message reads
>> Please insert disk 1 that contains the file data2.cab. There is a path
>> C:\appl.zip\IE. If I click OK nothing happens but if I click on the
>> BROWSE button, I can then change the path and direct it to where
>> there is a data2.cab file (C:\CPQDRV\DVD or C: Program
>> Files\Compaq\NAVPL\Userinst.
>> Question: Instead of REPAIR, can I UNINSTALL to an earlier version of
>> IE and once done reinstall the later version???
>