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

From: Joe (joew46167_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/09/04


Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 07:56:20 -0700

LOL Yeah, I know, sigh

Well, actually, isn't wasn't me that screwed it up - was
someone else. And so I don't know exactly what he did.
So, I figure I could be in a heap of trouble. But thought
if anyone could help me, should be the folks here :) And
if they can't, I haven't really lost anything by asking.

>-----Original Message-----
><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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