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unable to upgrade to explorer 5.5

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by danno

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My win 98 keeps telling me that there is a previous installation that needs to be completed before i do the explorer 5.5 setup and that i should restart to finsh the previous setup. I restarted like 10 times to no avail.can anyone help ????

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by dmiles

Open Windows Explorer and locate IE5 setup in the directory,double click the seup icon and see if this will complete the setup.
If this does not work,open the Control Panel and double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon,select IE and click the Remove button,when the window comes up choose to restore a previous version,and click OK.
Now go back to update to see if it will run successfully.

by zlitocook

If the first answer dont work let me know. I can tell you the files and dlls left after trying to remove IE. This will allow a clean install.

by shuja52

I too have a problem like this, whenever I try to install 6 it says like that ..
So let me know the dll files location

by spydermike

I too had the same problem with IE 5.5. I had to uninstall IE 5.5 and boot the PC up in safe mode and then load the upgrade. The safe mode prevented any other programs (i.e. virus protection software) from interfering with the install. You could also try disabling your virus protection software. And installing that way. MS products sometimes do not co-exist with virus software very well.

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