IE History Problems

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Michael Nosera

Greetings. My history usage on IE is truncated for everyday after
Thankgiving. At that time I was given the good advice (on this board)
to download both Adaware 6 and Spybot S&D, which I did and ran, and
have been using on a regular basis since, but it has done nothing to
repair the history. When I attempted to reinstall IE through the
program setup option in Control Panel's add/remove function, I get the
message: Setup was unable to open information file 'fp40ext.inf'.
Contact your system administrator. The specific error code is 0X2 at
line 2011777033. The application could not be initialized.

Could somebody explain what this means, and how to go about getting my
full history to function properly again? Thanks for any and all
assistance.
 
Greetings. My history usage on IE is truncated for everyday after
Thankgiving.
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What do you mean by truncated? If the History column is not wide enough to
display page titles, resize it or point to an item and wait a second or two
for the information tool tip to pop up.
 
Sorry. The history is incomlete; not all or even many of the sites I
go to are listed. Hope this clarifies it a bit.
 
Sorry. The history is incomlete; not all or even many of the sites I
go to are listed. Hope this clarifies it a bit.
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Try to keep an eye on this a bit to see if you can get some more clues
about what has changed and what exactly is going on: For the sites that
show an incomplete listing of pages visited - are there framed pages
involved? Is any of the page content pulled from another site than the one
visited? If you use any programs that clear history trails of any kind
(tweaking programs, privacy programs, registry cleaners, etc), suspend
using them for a little bit.
 
Thanks Sharon. Got any idea why I'm getting that message while trying
to add/delete windows components, or how to fix it?
 
Thanks Sharon. Got any idea why I'm getting that message while trying
to add/delete windows components, or how to fix it?
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Not sure why you're getting that message. Add/Remove for IE does not
really install/uninstall anything accept the icon to start the browser and
the default browser settings.

Take a look at this page. Sysoc.inf is a file some folks fool around with
to add/remove "hidden" components. fp40ext.inf is in this file. It also
gets updated by Service Pack1. You may be able to right click that INF file
and choose install to "put back" the files it controls.
 
Thanks again Sharon. When I did the right click on that file, my
computer flickered a bit, but did nothing else. So, that doesn't seem
to solve the problem. I'm thinking that this is such a PITA that I'll
just reinstall XP. The only questions I have in regards to that are
in which files or extensions do Outlook & Outlook Xpress save mail
messages and address books. Last time I did a restore, which was
before I let a friend check his email on TG-which was the beginning of
all my current hassles-I saved all the wrong files, losing my address
books & years of saved mail. Thanks again for your help. You've been
so kind.
 
Not sure why you're getting that message. Add/Remove for IE does not
really install/uninstall anything accept the icon to start the browser and
the default browser settings.

Take a look at this page. Sysoc.inf is a file some folks fool around with
to add/remove "hidden" components. fp40ext.inf is in this file. It also
gets updated by Service Pack1. You may be able to right click that INF file
and choose install to "put back" the files it controls.
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If your installation media allows it, may want to try a repair install
before doing a complete reinstall? Two good references for this (one with
screenshots):

Harry O¢s site:
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

Michael Steven¢s
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

(If you poke around a bit, you'll also find directions for performing a
clean install at both sites as well.)

For OE, my favorite is a free tool called OE Backup:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/index.htm
 
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