WARNING! Danger Reinstalling Win95 with IE4&5

This problem comes up repeatedly. So I thought I would create a post just for this problem.

If you have Internet Explorer4 or IE5 installed YOU CAN NOT REINSTALL WIN95 until you uninstall IE4&5.

Trust me! You will deeply regret it if you fail to follow this advice.

When IE4&5 are installed they replace and modify part of the operating system. If you try to reinstall Win95 you will corrupt those modifications and then you will have one BIG HEADACHE.

Here are some references from the Microsoft Knowledgebase-

Reinstalling Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4 or above
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q174/5/49.asp

Uninstalling Internet Explorer is Missing
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q172/9/19.asp

Removing Internet Explorer from Win95 using IEremove.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q166/3/13.asp

How to Manually Uninstall Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q175/6/10.asp

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q174/2/65.asp

Also, remember the program 98Lite.exe for Win98 which can separate Internet Explorer from the Desktop and speed up Win98. It's freeware.

Oh NO!!! I just reinstalled WIN. 95..then my internet program along with IE 4...after that I upgraded to my old IE 5. Are you saying that I did this all in reverse???

I just rebuilt my HD which reinstalled WIN 95! I've been working out little glitches since...nothing big, so far...but I don't need trouble on my computer...I rely on it!

Would you suggest dumping the Win 95 again and loading it all over again then??? I've downloaded the freeware that's supposed tohave taken care of the glitches with WIN95!

Thanks for your wisdom! Appreciate the post!
L

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"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds!"
Albert Einstein

fernhill,

I'm not 100% sure what your are saying, but I think this might help clear up my statement.

I referring to when you reinstall Win95 back on top of itself. When the reinstall overwrites the existing working operating system.

If you are 'reinstalling' it on a blank hard drive, NO PROBLEM.

Does that make things clearer?

Very often FORMATTING hard drive is the fastest, least expensive, and most efficient way of solving the WIN95 queries.
I am trying to point you towards a GLOBAL OVERRIDING direction, for I am under impression that, regardless of how good some of expert advice is/are,
most of time, FORMAT IS THE BETTER WAY of
repairing your PC software. It is capable of eradicating many bugs all at once, while
local repair most of time is fixing only one bug and leaves many other still active on your PC.
You need to learn to DIAGNOSE your
PC roughly well before undertaking FORMAT.
Your diagnose has to confirm that
your PC system is:
1/hardware is OK
(a/ with proper manual or default CMOS/BIOS settings
b/ with standard compatible elements)
2/ original software that will be used in Win95 reinstallation is OK
3/ you will follow screen prompts right

If YES to those points,
the FORMAT-post-FORMAT procedure that you can obtain from my site http://hammer.prohosting.com/~syslog/IE5help.htm
will be capable to bring your system to
absolute ROCKET TYPE PERFORMANCE!!!
100% guaranteed.
You may fail of course if:
your hardware is corrupt/incompatible/CMOS/BIOS bugged, your software is corrupt... etc

Generally speaking FORMATTING harddrive is a great global remedy re: corrupt softwares.After
it usually system works brilliant

Dabrowski-

That's the redeeming grace of having done it wrong. You get to reformat your hard drive and get rid of all that useless crap a person has been saving, and all those half install/uninstalled programs, and dozens of drivers for hardware you don't even have anymore.

Any machine runs better after a clean 'total' install. Assuming you did it right.