IE won't open

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After deleting several program via add/remove programs in the control panel,
Internet Explorer won't open. When I click on the icon I see the hourglass
briefly, but then it goes away and nothing happens. No errors, no nothing.

I CAN get to it if I go to the security center and click on "check for
Windows updates". That will open IE properly and I'm good to go from there.
Just a convoluted way to do it.

I've run Ad-aware and SpyBot, but haven't done a system restore to a time
before we did all those program deletions.

Any ideas? Is there a better newsgroup to post this in?

Thanks in advance.

Jerry

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

Try this link:

http://www.petri.co.il/reinstall_ie_6_on_xp.htm


"Jerry Crosby" wrote:

> After deleting several program via add/remove programs in the control panel,
> Internet Explorer won't open. When I click on the icon I see the hourglass
> briefly, but then it goes away and nothing happens. No errors, no nothing.
>
> I CAN get to it if I go to the security center and click on "check for
> Windows updates". That will open IE properly and I'm good to go from there.
> Just a convoluted way to do it.
>
> I've run Ad-aware and SpyBot, but haven't done a system restore to a time
> before we did all those program deletions.
>
> Any ideas? Is there a better newsgroup to post this in?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>