I'll tell you how we would get a fairly current copy of IE6 to update
systems we would rebuild for learning centers.
You know those Earthlink and AOL Discs you get in the mail? If you want IE6,
look for AOL 8 Or I use the newest Earthlink that has the sentence "45 Days
free" writen on the front. These discs always have a version of IE on it.
This is what I do with the Earthlink:
Put the disc in and let it auto start, then cancel the installation. Open
Windows Explorer, adn look for the CD-ROM drive. Click the plus signs and
migrate to the \windows\msie folder. Now lood for ie6setup.exe and
doubleclick to begin installation, If the disk you use has the file
ie5setup.exe, the more than likely it is version 5.5.
Since using the Earthlink CD's, I haven't used the AOL's much for finding IE
on them, but the procedure is the same.
Fran
> Will soon be installing new hard drive on HP 8380. I had planned on just
> loading everything up from my HP recovery disk, but got to thinking. (A
very
> dangerous thing.) As I recall, the computer originally came with IE 5, or
> 5.5 (maybe even an earlier version?) But the current version is 6.0. So,
> would it not be a good thing to go straight to 6.0, instead of installing
an
> earlier version from the original disk? Seems to me that it would be.
>
> If so, how do I do that?
>
> On other programs (Quicken, for example) I figure I will opt not to
install
> from original disk . . . will just install from later, Quicken 2002 disk
for
> instance. But, can I reject the IE version on the HP recovery disk? If
so,
> how do I get IE 6.0 loaded?
>
> Any other similar issues I have to concern myself with along these lines?
>
> Life was so simple before when I was ignorant . . .
>
> William Closure
>
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