Help! I think my IE is corrupt!

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I am running IE 6.0. Everything was fine until I updated to Windows SP2 and
now I can't download any pictures, animated graphics etc. I used to be able
to do this.

I have participated in a Hijackthis.com forum and have found out I do not
have any malicious trojans. I have run Spy Bot, Spy Sweeper, CleanUP,
Adware-SE and everything is OK.

I have a subscription to animationfactory.com. When I try to download a
graphic, somehow the "gif" file changes to a "png" file. The animation
doesn't work either. I called the company and they said that this shouldn't
take place. When I try to download the file onto my desktop or hard drive
the "save as screen locks up" and then I get an error message stating, "the
program is not responding". Then I go to the Task Manager to get the stupid
thing to unlock.

I then attempted to download IE 6 from the Microsoft web site and when I go
to install it, it says that my current version is newer than the one I
downloaded and it quits!

SO, I then downloaded the Firefox browser, installed it and I EVERYTHING
works perfectly! I can download anything and the animations all work from the
thumbnails to the download process and everything downloads as a gif, just
the way it's supposed to.

So my problem has to be a corrupted IE, right? What should I do now???

I was just going to just use Firefox but was told in another forum
(Fatwallet.com) by several of the computer guys that I needed to get this
problem resolved in the event this problem creates or triggers a new problem.

That's my tale of woe. Please help if you can.

I have a Dell 4600C, Windows XP Professional with SP2 installed.

Thanks in advance!
 
I am running IE 6.0. Everything was fine until I updated to Windows
SP2 and now I can't download any pictures, animated graphics etc. I
used to be able to do this.
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at first this sounds like it might only be a ZOne setting on security tab of internet optoins


I have participated in a Hijackthis.com forum and have found out I do
not have any malicious trojans. I have run Spy Bot, Spy Sweeper,
CleanUP, Adware-SE and everything is OK.

I have a subscription to animationfactory.com. When I try to download
a graphic, somehow the "gif" file changes to a "png" file.
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i recall someting like this happening to me a couple months aog. but IIRC, Firefox dl-ed pngs as pngs, but ie dled pngs as gifs

The
animation doesn't work either. I called the company and they said
that this shouldn't take place. When I try to download the file onto
my desktop or hard drive the "save as screen locks up" and then I get
an error message stating, "the program is not responding". Then I go
to the Task Manager to get the stupid thing to unlock.
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uhh oh
I then attempted to download IE 6 from the Microsoft web site and when
I go to install it, it says that my current version is newer than the
one I downloaded and it quits!
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you could check the declared ver of the ms dl of iesetup (ie6setup? whatever it's called)
then compare to your ver (run IE, help menu>>about, read ver number)


re: failed setups.
i thikn ther'es been plenty of posts (you can google newsgroups to find) about elaborate cleaning out of IE and failed iesetups.

SO, I then downloaded the Firefox browser, installed it and I
EVERYTHING works perfectly! I can download anything and the animations
all work from the thumbnails to the download process and everything
downloads as a gif, just the way it's supposed to.
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too bad installing ff didn't "fix" the ie trouble, just by luck :)
 
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