Thanks for all of the replies!

After trying all the suggestions (thank you very much!) I decided to download Firefox and it worked. Even though I could not access I/E I was able to transfer my "favorites" to Firefox so I/E was someplace on the computer. So then I used buf's suggestion of downloading I/E 10 and so far so good. I haven't figured out yet how to make Google my search engine and I can't get an icon on the desktop but all works!

Thanks