Reinstalling IE 7 in Vista

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OK, a tiny bit of venting first: "IE 7 is an integral part of the Vista OS
and therefore etc. etc. etc." Even if it's integral, it's made up of files
that can be re-copied from a CD, isn't it? And if it's "integral" to Vista,
how come it can be retrofitted to XP, etc. etc. etc. ? Wasn't there a big
court battle about "integral" apps a while back etc. etc. etc.

Now, on to the question (and no, I don't feel better now). My IE7 suddenly
started acting badly (120sec startup); the system is new, and I just copied
over my long-standing Favorites and Links from my old XP system (using the
Migration Wizard, which deserves a long rant of its own). It's hard to
suspect this of wrecking IE7.

I installed -- and am happily using -- Firefox with no issues, but something
tells me that one day I'll need this "integral part of Vista" for some
obscure purpose, so I want it working.

I went through all the usual steps of clear cache, doing the ultimate reset
to defaults step, etc. No joy. I then ran SFC /SCANNOW as directed in the
knowledge base. It informed me that I had some corrupted files, but it
couldn't fix them (Why, for heaven's sake? They're just files!). It told me
the details were in a log file, which turned out to be a 32Mb text file full
of incomprehensible gibberish... no where in it did it say something like
"<filename> is corrupted".

So am I really stuck with reinstalling the whole OS (which, by the way, came
pre-installed on the computer, and hopefully has all the necessary restore
files)? What will this process trash? Apps? Data files? Passwords?
Preferences of some kind?

I'm pissed off, I'm tired, and I'm worried that the hours of migration will
have to be repeated. Can anyone offer some soothing and helpful advice?

Many thanks,
Brian
 
Hi Brian,

You can't reinstall it, regardless of whether or not you want to. IE7 for XP
is an entirely different install package. The number one cause of problems
with IE starting up is with plug-ins/add-ons loading with it. Try disabling
these from tools/manage add-ons.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Rick Rogers said:
... Try disabling > these from tools/manage add-ons.
Click to expand...

Good advice, and thanks. Unfortunately, I did that as one of the four steps
leading to the ultimate return-to-default reset. No joy.

Still not sure why MS won't make it repairable and/or reinstallable. Time
pressures, other focus, no money in it? I buy those as legitimate business
reasons, however unpalletable. But "can't"... nah!

Thanks anyway,
Brian, about to reinstall Vista ($&^^*#@^*@$#%&!!!)
 
How did your install Vista? Since it is a new install, why not just
reinstall it? What else did you install that may have corrupted the files?
If Vista did not ask for the install disk to repair the files, maybe you
have a bad sector on your HD.
 
John Barnes said:
How did your install Vista? Since it is a new install, why not just
reinstall it? What else did you install that may have corrupted the files?
If Vista did not ask for the install disk to repair the files, maybe you
have a bad sector on your HD.
Click to expand...

John, Vista came pre-installed on my brand-new HP laptop. I've installed a
number of presumably safe apps, but IE ran find after each install. Not sure
what might have done the damage (nargles?). The repair I tried to do was
through SFC /SCANNOW; there may be a better way to do this. However, I'm
reconciled to having to reinstall the OS (sigh...); what I worry about is
losing apps or data. In the old days, we could reinstall the OS over the
old/bad one, and it wouldn't trash installed apps, etc. Not so sure about
Vista.

I'll back up first, of course!

Best,
Brian
 
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