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Dont worry it’s easily corrected Dave. If you have Spybot and a good AV client run these first then check these tutorials out. Follow these instructions step by step.

http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img/walkthroughs/windows_9x_nt/browsers/ie_6.0/8458.psc.html
If IE repair fails and your still getting the same symptoms you now have three choices your going to have to either have your installation disc handy or d/l a new copy of IE and save it on your computer, i recommend you download IE. You can get IE from the link below. Or when you uninstall your current IE installation your computer rolls back to the previous IE installlation you can update IE through the Windows update site.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&displaylang=en

Now that you downloaded and saved IE your going to have uninstall your current version. Heres a tutorial at the link below.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293907/EN-US/

Now reboot and install the IE that you downloaded and saved onto your computer. After installing IE reboot and remeber to visit the Microsoft update center and install all available updates.

Thanks for posting this extremely helpful article Super – I am sure that a lot of members with IE problems will find it most useful.

@dave2020 wrote:

Thanks super – I have Norton 2005 and its found adware minibug but its not deleting or putting it in quarantine just giving me the option to not be told about it again !! – great use that is.

But I still tried the uninstalling and installing of explorer 6 – but yet again im having the same problem.

This is seriously peeing me off now !!

Dave download this adware program http://www.lavasoft.com/support/download/ install it and make sure you get the adaware personal as its free and update the definition file for this program and reboot.

Now click start>run and in the run dialouge box type msconfig you should now have a system configuration utility appear. Under the GENERAL tab, select the radio button that says diagnostic start up – load basic devices and services only, now click the apply button and then close the system configuration utility. Your computer should now ask you to restart click restart.

Your computer should now start in diagnostic mode. Now run Lavasoft that i got you to download earlier. Lavasoft should now remove that minibug no problem. Im thinking this minibug has something to do with your problem. If Lavasoft removes the minibug go throught the IE repair procedure again.

WARNING: You can run Norton in diagnostic mode but i know Nortons got a habit of corrupting itself when ran in safe/diagnostic mode.

Once you finished running in diagnostic mode click start>run>and type msconfig in the dialouge box now select the normal startup radio button click apply exit and reboot to restart normally

Hi Dave, From what I have read so far it looks to me as if you haven’t FULLY removed the old version of IE from your PC.

As I understand it you need to go back over the full removal procedure and get rid of EVERY bit of the ”old” IE THEN run your anti spyware tool and THEN re instal IE 6.0. You should re boot after each step so as to complete the delete / reomoval process.

I do not understand the ”restore previous windows configuration” option. My understanding of Super’s solution was that you remove IE 6.0 (and any and ALL previous versions that you may have lurking around on your PC) and any and all component parts, add ons, upgrades etc etc. Restoring Windows to its previous configuration would surely simply undo the uninstall???

The solution is to totally remove it, disinfect your PC and then re-install it in a ”clean’ envirinment. The re-boot referred to is a part of completing the uninstal process. If you do not re-boot after every stage then there is a possibility that the uninstall will not be fully completed.