Re: I screwed up my IE6 SP1 for XP Home Edition

From: Sandi - Microsoft MVP (sandi_hardmeier_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/09/04


Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:55:48 +0800


<sigh> Define 'messing around'. What did you change? Did you keep records?

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joe wrote:
> I screwed up IE6 SP1 on Windows XP Home edition.  I screwed
> it up very well at that, too.
>
> I was messing around with my computer registry.  I know,
> never a good idea.  So I backed it up, first.  Well, I
> thought I backed it up, first, turns out that I had only
> backed up a very small portion of it.
>
> So, after I thought I had backed up the registry, I
> proceeded to mess with the settings.  In doing so, I must
> have made some bad choices concerning internet Explorer.
> Ever since I did that, I am unable to surf at all using IE.
> I can surf all I want using netscape.  And I can even open
> Windows explorer, and when I enter web addresses into the
> addres bar, I am able to surf using Windows explorer.  Just
> not IE.
>
> I have tried to uninstall and re-install IE, but that
> hasn't helped, either.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciate.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe< 


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