Re: Wrong Modver in IE6?

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:53:41 -0500

Crossposted to WinME General newsgroup.

1. Was the anti-virus application running when you installed IE6?

2. How did you "uninstall" IE6?

3. Had user ever tried installing IE6 before with similar results and then
tried to fix it by reinstalling Windows ME? 

-- 
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
Peter Pepper wrote:
> I recently "upgraded" one WinMe user from IE5.50 to IE6sp1 using Windows
> Update.  Ugh.
>
> Install would not overwrite several files, and they remain as version 5.50
> files, virtually preventing IE6 from running.  I have tried several 
> methods
> of replacing, renaming, deleting these files, to no avail.
>
> When I tried to repair from Add/Remove, this is what I got:
>
> "Internet Explorer cannot be repaired due to the following errors:
> Version 5.504134.100 of file ACTPRXY.DLL exists, but the version needs to 
> be
> greater than 6.0.2800.1100"
> ditto this for
> BROWSEUI.DLL,
> MLANG.DLL,
> MSHTML.DLL,
> SHDOCLC.DLL,
> SHDOVVW.DLL,
> SHLWAPI.DLL,
> URLMOON.DLL,
> WININET.DLL,
> WEBCHECK.DLL, and
>
> MSIDLE.DLL (needs to be greater than 5.50.4522.1800)"
>
> Ran full virus scan, spybot, and adaware.
> Tried renaming uninstall file and reinstall - nothing.
> Tried to REGSVR these files-nothing.
> Tried copying these files from another machine with same setup-windows
> hangs-nothing.
> Tried renaming the files so new files would be created and tried the 
> install
> again - could not rename because e they are "in use by windows" - nothing.
> Tried to uninstall IE6 and reinstall with a clean download (in safe mode
> with no AV running) - on restart, Windows Cannot upgrade %1 from %2.  I 
> read
> the knowledgebase article on this issue, but the solutions - seven steps
> give me a break - why I spent half a day doing this is beyond me - Did not
> work ( boy am I surprised!!).
>
> What else can I do?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you might have.
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