IE does not start

[FunGuy]

I reinstalled NT on a workstation and applied SP 6a.  Now Internet Explorer does not start.  Everything else seems OK.  Any ideas?  I tried MS website, but the one reasonable looking solution did not work -- namely, enforcement of shell extensions.

 

[dxd]

Any error messages? What version I.E.?<br><br>You stated &quot;reinstalled&quot; NT....was that over the top of an existing installation?<br><br>Was IE reinstalled before the SP6 install? Due to the fact that these 3 installs (NT, IE, SP6) contain common files with different versions it may be very difficult to recover from version mismatch problems...depending on the order of installation/reinstallation.<br><br>Again, depending on the procedure you chose..you may want to uninstall SP6, uninstall IE (if possible)..reinstall IE and then SP6.<br><br>This is just conjecture on my part as I do not have the complete picture of your install.<br><br><br>let us know.<br>

 

[JDurbin]

You need Option Pack 4. <p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=699842>Brainbench

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[JDurbin]

Or install IE 5.&nbsp;&nbsp;I said Option Pack 4 since I inferred you are running IIS on your Server.&nbsp;&nbsp;Check this out<br><A HREF="

http://support.microsoft.com/support/IIS/Install/install_iis4.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0"

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http://support.microsoft.com/support/IIS/Install/install_iis4.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0</A><br>

<p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=699842>Brainbench

Certified Professional VFP Programmer</a><br>ICQ VFP ActiveList #73897253

 

[FunGuy]

OK, here's how I fixed it -- found out thru error messages as I was uninstalling IE5 the there were problems with comctl32.dll and grpconv.exe (could not find ordinal 414) in the system32 directory.&nbsp;&nbsp;It would not allow me to uninstall IE5.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I got other later copies of these two files from a workstation where I had applied SP 6a and substituted them for what was on the problem machine.&nbsp;&nbsp;Voila -- IE5 now works.&nbsp;&nbsp;I would have thought that SP 6a would have replaced these files with later versions, like it did on the other machine, but it did not.&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh well.&nbsp;&nbsp;Another tidbit -- this machine would not properly install a video driver until I applied SP 6a.&nbsp;&nbsp;Se la vie and keep your fingers crossed.