Launch REGEDIT from the Start menu's Run dialog and navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383}. In the right-hand pane, double-click on the DWORD value IsInstalled and change it from 1 to 0 (no matter whether you choose Decimal or Hexadecimal).
Close REGEDIT and go to the Windows update site again. Now it should let you "update" IE and, with luck, fix the problems.
By the way, you can do the same thing if you need to repair Outlook Express, but at the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}.
Consider adding the /Q switch to IE-installer path in the Run box, this will prevent the installer from checking upon the installed IE version.
| Hi Geminate - There is no direct Repair function for IE6 in XP. Here are
| some alternatives:
|
|
| 1. If you're on XP SP2, try the suggestions in KB 870700, here: How to
| troubleshoot problems accessing secure Web pages with Internet Explorer 6
| Service Pack 2,
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870700#9 first.
|
| With XP you need to go (as an Administrator) to Start|Run and type "sfc
| /scannow" (without the quotes and notice the space between the c and the /.)
| Have your XP CD handy and be prepared to go get a cup of coffee - it takes a
| while. This will do the same thing as Repair IE6 for XP but a lot more,
| that is find any corrupt system files and replace them. It does NOT,
| however, re-register the various software components, and you will need to
| do this manually using regsvr32.exe if any are shown as replaced in
| Event Viewer|System.
|
| Be aware that under certain circumstances (Win2k before SP4 - see mskb
| 814510,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q814510) sfc
| can erroneously overwrite (restore over) previously installed files from
| certain "hotfixes" which will then need to be re-installed. This may also
| apply to XP. To check for this, after running sfc, open a Cmd window and
| enter "qfecheck /v /l:c:\" (without the quotes). If you don't have qfecheck
| installed, it can be obtained for XP here:
|
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35468 and for Win2k
| here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=35470 A
| version stated to be common to both is available here:
|
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=155C7C58-102E-47B0-A12A-BFAB8CFCCC03
| Further information about qfecheck is available here:
|
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282784/EN/
|
|
|
| 2. Another alternative for just IE6 repair if you don't have IE6 listed in
| Add-Remove Programs, then in Start|Run then enter
|
| "rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance"
|
| without the quotes, exactly as shown (it's case sensitive), and select the
| appropriate entry. More detailed info is available here: Description of
| the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
|
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q194177
|
|
|
| 3. If you find that you need to do a re-install of IE6 then you can
| consider the following:
|
| 1) Insert the Windows installation CD in your CD-ROM drive.
| 2) Click Start, and click Run.
| 3) Copy the command prompt below in the Open box (exactly as shown - it's
| case sensitive), and click OK. (Assumes %System% is installed in Windows on
| your C:\ partition. Change as appropriate for your particular situation.)
|
| Rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132
| c:\windows\inf\ie.inf
|
| 4) It will display a "File Needed" screen, click "Browse.." and browse to
| <CD-ROM drive>\i386, (where <CD-ROM drive> is the drive letter of the
| CD-ROM, For example, D
.
|
| 5) Click Open, click Ok, it should begin reinstalling Internet Explorer.
|
| (NOTE: It has been reported, courtesy of Steve Wechsler, that if you're on
| Windows XP Pro SP2, it may prompt you for some files that it cannot find in
| the WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder, which you'll then need to browse
| to. It's thought that this may apply to XP Home also. The specific files
| are iexplore.exe which actually IS in the i386 folder, mswrd632.wpc
| , which is located in the Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
| Shared\TextConv folder, AND, INSTALL.IN_ , which will be located on
| a slipstreamed XP Pro CD in the i386 folder and also located in the i386
| folder on an XP Pro SP1 disk. So, copying the 2 files above to the
| WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder should allow you to be able to
| repair/reinstall IE on an SP2 system by right clicking ie.inf in the
| WINDOWS\inf folder and selecting Install or using the rundll32.exe line
| given above.)
|
| 4. You can try this also:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm
|
| 5. Lastly, here is a link to a MSKB article about re-installing IE6/OE6:
|
| How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows
| XP (Q318378)
|
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q318378
|
| --
| Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
| My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
|
http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/
|
|
|
| | > When I had Win98 and WinME you used to be able to go to the Add or Remove
| > Programs and click on IE and select Repair to repair IE. In WinXP there
| > isn't even a listing in Add or Remove Programs, so how else can you repair
| IE?
|
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