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There is another way too. Go to www.portableapps.com You can download firefox and many other utilities that you run on a thumb drive. It is a good idea to have all this stuff with you anyway. The thumbdrive acts like a portable hard drive and you can load up let's say like an 8 gig thumbdrive with all the goodies you might need. You can run Firefox right from that drive as long as the PC your have at your access has a USB port and internet access. I have an 8 gig that I carry around with me all the time, but I am a geek that way I guess.

Oh, and if you need IE as mentioned above, you should be aware that system restore works best in Safe Mode.

Originally Posted by crackertech

Firefox is the best.

At least I can say that Firefox has gotten much better.

I takes a little getting used to, and it uses "plugins" to give you the various functional aspects for more advanced features, but it is not as vulnerable as IE and is a good, free browser.

Try it.

See if you can download Firefox to CD on another machine, and install it on the troubled machine. You may not want to install IE8 when you use Firefox.

IE problems

which OS are you using Xp or Vista? system restore wont work if you did windows update to IE 8. you can try putting sp3 for Xp or sp 2 for vista.

If that fails a reinstall is the only option.....

avoid IE8 ...

Some web sites, especially government and on line billing requires internet exploder.

If his only browser was IE then he can't download Firefox.

I'd try loading your Windows system recovery CD and click on "Repair". That will save all your data and reload IE as well.

Firefox is the best.

Yep, Firefox doesn't have those problems !

Dump IE and get one of the other freebies out there, Chrome, Firefox Safari,etc....

Go to the Dos prompt and type "format C" That should do it!

Not really....kidding.

Try computerhope.com.. It's a great computer help forum. My guess is they'll have you back up and running today.

were running ie7 here, ordered the ie8 cd from microsoft this am they seem to think that it is the only fix they were as baffled as i am about the problem, we restored and didnt fix gonna take a week or so to get the disc hopefully it will fix it

Originally Posted by hvacman14

ive got a problem with my internet explorer on the office computer, it will not open, and when u go to internet options under the control panel it wont open either, has any one else experianced this and how did u fix it, right now im at a standstill on warranty billing unless i bring it home and work at night Please help

Thanks
Gary
2008 nate top tech

Did you system restore yet? I recently updated a relative's computer from IE7 to IE 8, and then it wouldn't boot up Windows at all. I had to "use a previous configuration that worked" option that was presented to me by the computer. Not sure of the windows version. Sorry that I don't know how to help you access that option...yet.

WHat version do you use on the work computer?

internet explorer help

ive got a problem with my internet explorer on the office computer, it will not open, and when u go to internet options under the control panel it wont open either, has any one else experianced this and how did u fix it, right now im at a standstill on warranty billing unless i bring it home and work at night Please help

Thanks
Gary
2008 nate top tech