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Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / February 2006IE6 won't ask to be default anymore - Still Need Help
Sofa Slug wrote: > I had to do some severe virus cleaning that required me to do two Repair Installs. Firefox 1.07 and IE 6 are both running on XP sp2. Everything else is OK now, but Firefox insists on being the default browser. When I go to IE, it doesn't ask if it should be the default anymore. > I've tried setting Firefox to not ask as the default, and have also tried every combination in Add/Remove Programs > Set Program Access, Defaults. Have also tried changing URL file associations in File Types but Firefox keeps changing them back. > Do I have to re-install IE6 to fix this ??! > OK... Nevermind - I think I got it nailed... > > Clicked on Add or Remove programs in Control Panel, then clicked on > Add/Remove Windows Components, then selected Internet Explorer and clicked > Next. This must have rebuilt the files because everything works now. :) Uh oh...my success was short lived. As soon as I rebooted, the problems returned. I installed IE6 over the top of itself, but no joy :( Any suggestions would be welcomed... Do what you did before with add remove programs and when the IE window comes up select Repair. Once this is finished and you restart it will ask you, when you go into IE, if you want IE to be the default, select yes. Alan > Sofa Slug wrote: > > I had to do some severe virus cleaning that required me to do two [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Any suggestions would be welcomed... Sorry - I don't see any option anywhere in Add/Remove Windows Components or in the Windows Components Wizard for "Repair" (I am using XP sp2). Can you be more specific please? -Thanks OK, no problem. There are a number of other options. I am running 98 SE and you can also run the repair from system tools (Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Information). From the tools menu select Internet Explorer Repair. If that is not there, then access KB 293907 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293907/en-us and scroll down to a section headed :- How to Repair or Return to Previous Internet Explorer Installation. Paste or type that highlighted command into the RUN command and that will do it for you. Alan > Sorry - I don't see any option anywhere in Add/Remove Windows > Components or in the Windows Components Wizard for "Repair" (I am using > XP sp2). Can you be more specific please? > > -Thanks I have just found this newer KB article which covers IE and OE for XP and apparently SE. It is http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378. > OK, no problem. There are a number of other options. I am running 98 SE and > you can also run the repair from system tools [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > -Thanks |
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