Re: I want to upgrade from IE 5.0 to IE 6.0...????
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 08/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:18:36 -0400
cmptr_iliterate wrote:
> Hello. I've been using IE V.5.0.0 for the last three
> years when I purchased my Dell Laptop with Windows 2k
> Professional platform. Absolutely no problems. Anyways,
> I would like to upgrade to atleast IE V5.5 but when I go
> to the Microsoft Website to do so, it reads that the the
> IE V5.5 is "under extensive support...it is no longer
> available for downloading."
> 1) Does anyone else know where I can download IE 5.5 for
> Win2K professional? 2) Also, if I were to upgrade from IE
> 5.0 to IE 6.0 w/Service Pack 1 would that be risky for my
> laptop to upgrade to such a big jump and thus causing
> major issues with my laptop.
I haven't seen any problems with IE6SP1...I put all my clients' workstations
on it a long time ago.
3) Lastly, I'm on a dial up
> connection and I've been told it would take me hours to
> upgrade my IE version. I have a friend who has a DSL
> connection but they are using Windows XP and I'm using
> Windows 2000 Professional. The question I have is if I
> were to download the "upgrade" files for IE 6.0 from their
> machine and save it to their desktop and then burn the
> files onto a CD (for my Windows version), could I do that
> and then just pop the CD into my laptop and upgrade that
> way. In otherwords, I would just use my friends machine
> as a avenue to download the files much faster.
Unfortunately, I don't believe you can download the entire installation
files - the link you see on the downloads page is a tiny (400k??) file that
launches setup & downloads the rest from the Internet. I don't know that it
would take hours on dialup, but an hour is entirely possible.
I have a
> Dell PIII 500mhz, 512 mb ram w/ Windows 2k. They have a
> PIV w/windows XP.
Thank you in advance. Rochelle.
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