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by hodge_4u

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Recently on a Windows 95B computer with Internet Explorer 5.5 installed, I reinstalled Windows 95B and now when Internet Explorer is started and the IE dialog box pops up, the computer acts as if it's locked up and a section of the IE dialog box is missing, and you can see your desktop in the section missing. I'm unsure of what to do with this problem. Please Help!

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by mphoffar

The first two are right, you need to reinstall IE, but you'll discover that setup won't go because of the windows update being installed with IE5.5.

You'll need to extract shell32.dll and explorer.exe from your windows cabs into a folder somewhere, boot into a dos mode and rename these two files (they should be in the windows system diretory) and then copy the ones you extracted into those places.

The command I use to extract files is

extract /a win95_02.cab

what this does is starts in the 02 cab and searches any subequent cabs for these files, that way you're not stuck looking through each cab for the files.

If that doesn't work go to this support article

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q175/6/10.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

Although it deals specifically with IE4 (and I know you're at 5.5) the manual removeal this describes should work for any version above 4

Once you get that off of there, you should be able to reinstall IE without a problem.

Good luck to you

Mark

by mphoffar

The first two are right, you need to reinstall IE, but you'll discover that setup won't go because of the windows update being installed with IE5.5.

You'll need to extract shell32.dll and explorer.exe from your windows cabs into a folder somewhere, boot into a dos mode and rename these two files (they should be in the windows system diretory) and then copy the ones you extracted into those places.

The command I use to extract files is

extract /a win95_02.cab

what this does is starts in the 02 cab and searches any subequent cabs for these files, that way you're not stuck looking through each cab for the files.

If that doesn't work go to this support article

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q175/6/10.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

Although it deals specifically with IE4 (and I know you're at 5.5) the manual removeal this describes should work for any version above 4

Once you get that off of there, you should be able to reinstall IE without a problem.

Good luck to you

Mark

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