Re: IE corrupted by Adone Acrobat - how can I fix it?

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When you get the error message:
"Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.
We are sorry for the inconvenience."
Click on the Details link-
What is the AppName?
What is the AppVer?
What is the ModName?
What is the ModVer?
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"Brad" <Brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EEE3F289-8287-4585-BD8E-F4D92A6B9B9E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jan/Robert,

Still no luck. I did what Jan suggested before I read Robert's comments.
My system works but IE now doesn't open at all:

"Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are
sorry for the inconvenience."

Robert - ieuinit.inf file does not have the lines you specified in it.

So - where do I go from here?

Thanks,

Brad

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

"Brad" <Brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6D9F7E49-2B58-4106-903A-6C70BD89FCFF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I installed Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 and now I no longer want it.
However, when I uninstall it IE no longer works. IE launches but is
corrupted - most likely because Adobe Acrobat fools around with its toolbar.
I have tried various registry cleaners but to no avail. Am currently stuck
using Firefox - can anyone help me restore by IE installation?


It would probably have helped to have described your symptoms
more clearly. E.g. what *exactly* are you seeing to cause you to claim
"IE launches but is corrupted"?

IMO I don't think an XP Repair is something which should be considered
lightly, especially if you don't have a slipstreamed CD to run the repair from.
The first and only time that I tried it I ended up with a totally trashed system
which I had to rebuild from scratch. There are several hidden "gotcha's"
buried in the KB which I only discovered after trying it.

BTW if you want to use iexplore.exe /rereg
be aware that there are errors in the provided ieuinit.inf file
which cause that repair to be less effective than it might be.
FWIW here are some comments about that.

<excerpt>
If you would like to try it there are four lines which need to be modified.
Specifically I found the following errors on mine (mostly to do with whether
there is a DllRegisterServer entry point or just a DllInstall entry point
in each of the following modules:

%11%\comctl32.dll,NI
%11%\digest.dll,NI
%11%\inetcpl.cpl,NI (I deleted the first and left this.)
;%11%\msapsspc.dll (I actually deleted this line.)

To be clear the above lines are my corrections. In order to make them
in your copy simply open %windir%\System32\ieuinit.inf in Notepad,
find each module name and make the appropriate change.

To summarize I appended ,NI to the lines which contain comctl32 and digest;
I deleted the line which contained inetcpl.cpl without the switches
and I deleted the line which contained msapsspc. If you prefer you could convert
both deletions to comments by inserting a semicolon (;) in column 1 of those two lines
(as I was forced to do for my last example.)

Making those four changes allowed the whole section to execute cleanly.

</excerpt>


Finally, be aware that IE6 is only a stand-alone application in XP
in the combination IE6sp1 under XP base. If you have XPsp2
in order to download and install IE6sp1 you would have to first
uninstall both XPsp2 and XPsp1. (I am not recommending that
you do that but simply explaining why you can't install IE6 under
your OS.)


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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