Re: iexplore - kernel32.dll crash

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"wyocowboy" <wyocowboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> After running this, I realized that it was just going to download the
> complete IE6 SP1 pkg, which I already have on CD. BTW, the other trick to
> downloading the complete pkg for Win2k/XP is to run ie6setup from a win98
> machine. You can then specify the entire pkg, and which OS (the old custom
> install...)
>
> Anyways, all this is a complete waste of time because it still comes back
> with the lame "a newer version of IE is already installed" even if you first
> go in and set the IE activesetup isinstalled key to 0. Doesn't matter if you
> are trying to install from the complete pkg or not, once you have SP2
> installed, the only way to reinstall IE6 is to reinstall SP2, this from much
> googling. If the MVPs don't know this, they should, and should be bugging the
> developers to fix this...


Think about what you are trying to do and it will make more sense.

XP contains IE6 as a built-in base.
IE6sp1 can be installed separately in XP.
XPsp1 contains IE6sp1 (which supersedes even IE6sp1)
XPsp2 contains "IE6sp2" (which is not available separately and is just
a convenient way of referring to the browser functionality built in to XPsp2)

Therefore, if you wanted to install IE6sp1 "normally" you would need to
uninstall both XPsp2 and XPsp1 in order to get the installed version of IE below
the version you were trying to install.

This is very likely a waste of time because by uninstalling XPsp2
in a sense you "reinstall" IE6sp1 (i.e. by reverting to XPsp1).


The only thing that I would like to bug the developers to fix is the lack of
a usable repair tool for most users. E.g. only if you installed IE6sp1
separately would you have setupwbv.dll Its Repair function still works
from the Run... dialog, if you have it:
rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance
and would be far superior to all the hit or miss regsvr32 commands
we have to offer as weak alternatives.


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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