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by skrypto

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After downloading IE 5.5 and rebooting, the explorer crashes once you pass the Windows login screen. Running Windows 98 SE. Computer hangs before desktop is fully brought up - can't get into O/S to uninstall IE or make any other changes.

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by jason freeman

Can you boot in safe mode? if so have you run "msconfig" to view your startup files and determine the possible problem...let me know...I have seen lots of problems with IE 5.5!

Jason

by jlopes

Try hitting F8 when you see the windows screen come up the first time. Then when the menu comes up select the option to boot to dos command prompt and run "scanreg /f" this will scan the registry for problem and fix them. If that does not work, you can then boot to safe mode and uninstall the program that is giving you the problems. Good Luck

by espedair

Remove it in safe mode should do it... .you may have problems when you try to reinstall an earlier version though. There are loads of problems with 5.5. Including the mysterious hotmail reply problem ie type more than 4 lines and it quits out of IE?! Theres a bunch of others. Its very buggy.

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