On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:52:12 -0400 Jack R Payton <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Anne:
>
> The obvious sounds like first doing an "add/remove programs" of the
> MSIE in Control Panel. If you've done that or that didn't cure the
> problem ie, you still couldn't reinstall IE, do you have Cleansweep
> or Uninstall, or one of the utilities suites like McAfee, Norton, First

> Aid (which as I rember works well with Win95), or FixIt? If so, run
> their registry cleanup type utility, which should find most of the IE
> loose ends in the Registy.
>
> jack payton

Symantec cautions not to use Cleansweep to uninstall IE. This is true for
Norton 98 and 2000. I do not know about 2001.

Question to the list: will SFC check IE?

Demetri Kolokotronis

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:24:26 +0930 Anne Smith
> <[log in to unmask]>
> writes:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > [during Win95 install, "lost a few critical IE5.5 files...can't
> reinstall because, '...keep getting a message that the install routine
> detects IE5 is already installed, and won't proceed...I dare not format

> and start again, as a backup of that size is beyond me.
> > Anne Smith

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