Have you tried the repair option for IE 5.5?  Go to Add/Remove in the
Control Panel, Select IE 5.5 then Add/Remove. This should bring up another
screen and one option will be repair.

HTH

Jerry

When I opened my mail I noticed that you wrote:
>Hello everyone.
>
>I have been entrusted by my elderly father to "fix" his PC. It is a
>Celeron 533, with
>64 meg RAM, a 10 gig or so HDD, running Win95.
>
>He had started off only wanting to run DOS on it, then relented to
>install Win3.11/DOS 6.22, then finally agreed to try Win95 as none of
>his old DOS stuff would work properly as the processor was just too
>fast.
>
>During all this, the sound and display disappeared, well, no sound, and
>only 16 colours on Display. I fixed all that, but somehow I managed to
>lose a few critical IE5.5 files, so IExplorer will not work.
>
>I assumed I could just reinstall it, BUT I keep getting a message that
>the install routine detects IE5 is already installed, and won't proceed.
>
>I then tried to install a previous version, and then hopefully upgrade,
>but it won't let me do this either..
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions? I dare not format and start again, as
>a backup of that size is beyond me.
>
>Thankyou
>
>Anne Smith
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