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No internet after installing IE6

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Im' using Win2k on my dell L733. I was able to browse the internet with World net, Net Zero, and AOL before I installed IE6, then back down to 5.0 because on installing PICTURE IT, it require 5.0, then tried to put 6.0 back on. How can I dump all ofthe browsers and start again without re-installing windows?

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by ebob

Let me try to understand...

You no longer need to use PictureIT, or by some means, the requirement to use IE5 is no longer relevant. And you would like to be running IE6 (intentionally? ).

Well, all those other browsers are more or less stand-alone applications, so you can just "uninstall" them, if that's what you want. Are you having a problem uninstalling this? What error messages, if any? That should leave you with IE5. After a couple of reboots, just to clean things up, try again upgrading to IE6, and let us know what error messages, if any, you get.

There should be no need to re-install Windoze(tm).

However, if your question is taht you have lost your "internet after installing IE6", then you need to debug your TCP/IP.You need to make sure you are getting an IP configuration (either hard-coded or DHCP), including the proper default gateway. Also perform some PINGs and TRACERTs to a few Internet sites (web sites, FTP hosts, etc.).

by freetech

sorry, bad news.
you cannot "uninstall" your browsers effectively in win2k.
microsoft does not want you to have much control over the browser. so they certainly don't want you to uninstall it. who knows you might want to use something that works. opera, netscape, etc.
i had many problems with win2k running ie6.0. had to reload. hated the reload but very glad to rid myself of ie 6.0
hope this helps.

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