Reinstall corrupted IE?

[Mobius]

A silly girl I know dropped her completely toasted PC in to me the other day. I simply copied out her personal files, and formatted the disc, then installed Win2K Pro...

After around 5 hours of work, and updates, the thing is almost ready to go...

However, a manic session of Windows Updates has left IE completely non-operational. It just says "The page can not be displayed". Can't get it to load anything. Its properly connected to the Internet, and the LAN, and firefox works just fine on it, as do all other Internet applications - just not IE!

I really want to fix this without reformatting, and it's only so stupid Windows Update can work. I'll be hiding every other method of opening IE!

I tried reinstalling IE6 (I have a standalone install for IE6 for all machines) but it says "you have a newer version of IE already installed. Setup will now exit.

Any ideas?

Oh, and yeah - LAN settings are correct in Internet Options.

[De Rigueur]

Would this help?
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

[Mobius]

EVEN BETTER!!

This is fantastic. Thank You.

Now, do you know of a way to cripple IE intentionally, so it can't be fixed?

[De Rigueur]

I think you might like this . . .

http://www.stopie.com/

[AceCombat]

However, a manic session of Windows Updates has left IE completely non-operational. It just says "The page can not be displayed". Can't get it to load anything. Its properly connected to the Internet, and the LAN, and firefox works just fine on it, as do all other Internet applications - just not IE!

Mobius, i just encountered the exact same thing:

tell me this: does the window title bar say:

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Invalid Syntax Error - Microsoft Internet Explorer

[MD-2389]

I don't suppose you tried searching MS Support....

Have a look at result #1.

Oh, before you go through all of that, make damn sure you're not blocking it via a firewall.

[AceCombat]

now, i just need to modify the search for Win9x

[BUBBALOU]

now, i just need to modify the search for Win9x

Tweak UI is your friend add "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" without quotes to the search section

or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search

Keys

CustomizeSearch REG_SZ http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
SearchAssistant REG_SZ http://www.google.com/ie

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl

Keys

Default REG_SZ http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

[AceCombat]

i just went the easy route..... i d/l'ed IE6 with all the updates and copied that to a CD.

i had to hose the Win9x installation on this particular machine. im waiting for a return call from the owner for permission to upgrade to Win2k. its a Celeron 900 MHz with 128MB PC-100 SDRAM