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by caballlero69

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I am running ie 5.5 and i am experiencing some problems, so I want to uninstall ie and re install it. However i dont have the ie 5.5 tools under the AddRemove Programs to do so and if I go to the history of Windows Update, it show that i installed that tool. How can I remove ie 5.5 to previous version so I can re install ie5.5 again. Thanks for your help
Erick

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by cg it

Funny thing about Windows versions above 3.1 and (somewhat) 95, is that IE is required for the O/S to run. (biggest contention Netscape and the Govt had in their antitrust lawsuit)IE is not a stand alone "add in" program that can be removed and reinstalled.(doesn't mean you cant get rid of it, just one can't use add/remove programs or remove windows components). Your best bet is to either reinstall the O/S or use Windows update and get the service packs (& IE 6) which fixes a flurry of bugs andsecurity leaks.

by cg it

There are people here in this forum who have such vast experience with Windows (and technical expertise)that they may know of a way or workaround to solve you problem.

by cg it

Your O/S is W2K , yet you say you can't upgrade to IE 6, yet I'm running W2K and have IE6. Don't understand.

by dmiles

Open the Control Panel,double-click on Add/Remove programs icon,in the panel that opens select IE5 from the list,then click the Remove button,you will get a pop up menu,select to restore to previous version,answer yes,then follow the on screen instructions

You will have to restore to previous verssion of IE and then return to run setup for IE5

To remove IE from computer you will need the utility IERadicator a free download

by nikki96

How to uninstall IE
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q257234&
(watch for those pesky spaces in the pasted url)

However, I have had to reinstall IE a couple times to fix things (mostly corrupted or accidentally overwrittendlls). I never had to uninstall first. I just re-installed it and chose the "fix me" repair option that came up, IIRC. Another undocumented Microsoft feature? LOL

by @lberto

Well, welcome to Microsoft environment, where every single day a "patch" is posted or a "service Pack" is released ...

There is something that I've learned from Microsoft, never ever try to go back... if you install a service pack it is useless to try to revert it and go back to your old situation.
Specially IE, Microsoft said that IE is not part of the OS, however, we all know that it is not true.
The only thing I can think of is try to go further and install IE 6.0 and its new "Service Pack", probably you'll get some luck out of it...

@lberto
alberto@pancarib.com

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