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Bob Stock
I have Windows Me.
I just upgraded from IE 5.50 to IE 6 because I thought it would cure a
lot of script errors I was getting. Unfortunately, although those
errors have disappeared, the problems with IE 6 are worse. I surf a
few pages, and then it stalls, won't open anything. I close it, and
then it works, and then it stalls. This continues like this. It's
horribly frustrating. I read somewhere on the web that IE 6 works
much better with XP because it was designed for it and has problems
with Me and earlier OSes.
I also have problems with some websites all the time, e.g.,
www.worldsavings.com, it won't download all the items on the page.
Just stops downloading.
Here are two overall questions:
1. Anything I can do to fix it and stick with IE 6?
2. If I want to go back to IE 5.50, what's the best way to do
that? Install 5.5 over 6? Uninstall 6 first? If I uninstall 6, how
do I do that? MS gives all these options, none of which seem to be
good -- like restoring the previous configuration (sounds best). (I
did try "repairing"; that didn't help. I also tried repairing in Safe
mode. Didn't help. Someone in another group said run Ad-Aware. It
runs relatively clean -- found one Alexa thing, which I removed.)
Someone said that using the "restore the previous Windows
configuration" will put me back to some previous version of Windows
Me, the OS, rather than IE -- and will be awful. That makes no sense.
None of these problems occurred in IE 5.50.
Any ideas are welcome. I'm very frustrated by all this.
Thanks.
Bob
I just upgraded from IE 5.50 to IE 6 because I thought it would cure a
lot of script errors I was getting. Unfortunately, although those
errors have disappeared, the problems with IE 6 are worse. I surf a
few pages, and then it stalls, won't open anything. I close it, and
then it works, and then it stalls. This continues like this. It's
horribly frustrating. I read somewhere on the web that IE 6 works
much better with XP because it was designed for it and has problems
with Me and earlier OSes.
I also have problems with some websites all the time, e.g.,
www.worldsavings.com, it won't download all the items on the page.
Just stops downloading.
Here are two overall questions:
1. Anything I can do to fix it and stick with IE 6?
2. If I want to go back to IE 5.50, what's the best way to do
that? Install 5.5 over 6? Uninstall 6 first? If I uninstall 6, how
do I do that? MS gives all these options, none of which seem to be
good -- like restoring the previous configuration (sounds best). (I
did try "repairing"; that didn't help. I also tried repairing in Safe
mode. Didn't help. Someone in another group said run Ad-Aware. It
runs relatively clean -- found one Alexa thing, which I removed.)
Someone said that using the "restore the previous Windows
configuration" will put me back to some previous version of Windows
Me, the OS, rather than IE -- and will be awful. That makes no sense.
None of these problems occurred in IE 5.50.
Any ideas are welcome. I'm very frustrated by all this.
Thanks.
Bob