I came into work this morning and my machine booted up without IE or Firefox working. I reinstalled Firefox and it worked, but I could not get IE to work. On top of that, Windows Explorer doesn’t work so I can’t open a view of my disks.
Luckily I can still run CMD and my DOS heritage has paid off. I’ve been doing things like DIR, COPY and DEL all day.
I don’t want to call the help desk, because that would be an admition of defeat. I have to get IE back before I do my timesheets, though, because the program doesn’t work in Firefox.
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Get IE running again yet?
If it’s IE8, uninstall it from control panel and reboot. Should give you IE6. Then download and reinstall IE8.
I cleanup the install packages regularly to save disk space. I uninstalled IE8, but it did not revert service pack 2. IE8 still crashed.
It turned out to be a bad install of the Adobe reader software. I had two installs and it crashed IE8 and when IE8 crashed explorer.exe couldn’t load.
I ran IE8 with plugins disabled (from control panel/ administrative tools). It worked so I disabled all the plugins and started restarting them until it stopped working. I uninstalled the Adobe viewer and then re-installed it. I have been OK ever since.
Keith