I hate to give up in defeat Sindi, but I am tapped... :-( I do not know the
characteristics of free surer; admittedly, I've never even heard of it. BUT,
perhaps you could try un-installing it altogether just to see what results.
Perhaps it has even become slightly corrupted? Maybe a re-install might do
the trick?
Unless I have a flash of inspiration (epiphany) I'm at a loss for any other
ideas right now. Sorry.
OH, BTW are you the Sindi who posted here some months ago (June/July) about
an IE / OFFICE Update problem? If so. I tried posting back but MS Newsgroup
had a "brain burp" and wouldn't permit it.
I am including my repost to you (??) here. If it wasn't you, then please be
so kind as to disregard it, and excuse my ignorance.It follows below:
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Sindi said:
I went to the place where it had the updates or whatever
for internet explorer 6. I chose to download several of
these. Now on my desktop there are little icons
representing these. Does this mean that the download
worked? Can I delete these from my desktop without doing
any harm to anything?
updates,etc thread Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:22 PM
Sindi said:
This is what I have downloaded:
Some of these may be for OFfice 97 which is what I really
started out to do but decided to also update IE6.
I went to the site you referrered and the only IE6
upgrades were different languages which I do not need.
There was nothing here about Office 97 updates which I
need.
When I clicked to open the ones I did download it doesn't
work. A box appears that says "open with."
Will await for an answer and hopefully I will be able to
find this discussion again. This is a very difficult
forum to find your own posts again.
Thanks for your help.
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My re-posted reply to you (??)
My gosh! *All of that??!* This is of major proportions... where to begin????
One should only do so many updates at a time, so one will know what is being
installed. If there are problems which arise one can determine that which
was the most recent change to the machine. Doing all of these additions at
once will surely lead to problems. Confusion is one of them, and that has
already taken it's toll, as you don't know which were for IE and which were
for Office 97.
OK, first - I use Office XP (on a W98se machine). There is an update link
for Office right on my Outlook 2002 for instance. Doesn't your Office 97
offer this?
I would just stick all of those "updates" into some folder somewhere, and
start fresh by first accessing *Windows Updates* and let it do a scan of
your PC. Let *IT* select what you need. If nothing is presented, then
nothing is needed. It's as simple as that. That's the way it is.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
Updates for Office products are to be found only at MS Office Updates. WU
(Windows Updates) never displays any updates for it's line of Office
products at that site.
Updates for Office 97 (Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update
tool on this site to install updates.)
http://snipurl.com/7k6u
First, Right-Click and create a "shortcut to Desktop" for this page, so as
to have it handy.
These are sorted by release date. Try installing the *oldest* ones first,
and do one update at a time, and *re-boot* immediately after the update. If
something goes wrong, you'll know which item is responsible for it.
Office 97 updates
http://snipurl.com/7k6n
This is the current Office update site, but is unlikely to be of use for
Office 97
http://snipurl.com/41mr
About Office updates
http://snipurl.com/7k6f
Note: the Office Update site does not check for Office 97 updates.
Let's see what you get by the above means. Hope this helps. BTW, it is best
to post these sort of questions to the relevant newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.officeupdate
http://snipurl.com/7k7h
OR using Outlook Express this is the better link
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.officeupdate
Insofar as re-locating your posts in the newsgroups, use the *Search
button*, it now works as opposed to a while back it did nothing. Better
still, access these newsgroups by using Outlook Express as your newsreader.
I do, and it is miles above in every way, free, and will enable you to read,
post, reply, and search so much faster and easier. Here's how to do that.
WSC OE setup (quick method)
http://www.aumha.org/win5/support.php
http://aumha.org/nntp.php
These below are some bits of info on what one does if setup is to be
accomplished by a manual process. All are basically the same instructions,
but I've included them all for your benefit to see that regardless of which
set-up you have, the instructions are the same.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;182167
http://users.westelcom.com/rogersr/setupoe.htm
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
http://www.my-binaries.com/newsreaders-OutlookExpress-instructions.asp
Newsgroup Setup Instructions
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/smartdisplay/using/newsgroups/setup.mspx
About using OE as a newsreader
http://www.iup.edu/helpdesk/service/pc/software/outlookexp/usenet/newsfaq.shtm
http://www.microsoft.com/mom/community/setup.asp (forget that this says
Windows Server System; it's the same exact setup process for use on regular
PC setups)
Windows Me Newsgroups Setup Instructions
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsme/support/newsgroups/newssetup.asp
Windows XP setup for OE newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx
There you have it. I hope this will help in some way.
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