nathan.....

[ridefree]

nathan

Sorry, I know this space isn't specifically for contacting you like this, but I didn't see an e-mail address and your guest book site kept sending a timeout.

Many thanks for relieving all of us of the need to search some of Microsoft's
Knowledge Base. A notoriously difficult task at times.

I thought you may be interested to know of a problem with an IE5 installation that I had that you don't mention. I had a seriously botched attempt when I linked to the IE5 download page and didn't have enough free disk space for the hog.
I didn't see any estimate of how much it would need in advance. (too much beer or too little sleep?) Anyway, it proceeded to check out my system and then said that I didn't have enough disk space. At that point it did say how much I would need. It said I should go "back" and do some housekeeping. I clicked on the appropriate "back" buttons. Then I dumped a bunch of files and moved others around until I had the required space.

It had left a setup window on the desktop to resume with the download and it said that I didn't have the required setup files available and that it would load them if I would restart Windows. I went ahead and rebooted to a blue screen of death. My VFAT files were corrupted. I could boot to Safe Mode, but Windows Explorer was not working. Neither was the "Run" function, nor the Add/Remove Software function in Control Panel.

Then I found myself in IE4 on top of Win95 HELL! Thankfully I was able to uninstall IE4 from Safe Mode and reinstall Win95, then reinstall IE4.

However I now had lost dial-up networking and my Lantastic setup. No amount of properties manipulation would get them back and only importing a saved copy of the registry got me up and going again.

I don't know what the motto of all this is other than make sure you have a generous amount of free disk space BEFORE you even attempt to "upgrade"
to IE5.

Hope this is usefull info.

ridefree

[Nathan]

Your welcome ridefree! Glad to help out.

Look carefully under the Misc. category. It has links to the search engines an MS Knowledge Base. You can find alot through the Basic and Advanced views.

Thanks for the update on IE 5.X. I personally won't consider downloading it for quite a while. It's too new. And I choose not to be a beta tester like that. There are just too many people with problems with it too. I love my IE 4.7X version.

Backing up is one of THE most important things when it comes to computers. Sometimes it's just best to reformat and start over. Which then brings up the thought of partitioning your drive. By having your documents and downloaded drivers, patches, etc. on that partition, you can easily recover and reinstall your patches, etc.

Oh...thanks for letting me know what you thought about it. I really started the because I was lazy. I didn't want to load the site for the answer to the questions I see on the different forums. So I just wanted to send them to a site and let them read and do.