IE5 Upgrade to IE5.5SP2 (W95)

[andyhalsall]

I am trying to upgrade IE 5 to IE 5.5SP2 but it gives error saying please restart the machine a previous installation has not completed. This is a standard error I have had lots of time but normally deleteing winint.ini does the trick. But this time has no effect, I cant remove curent IE 5 as it gives same error anyone got any idea's?

Thanks in advance

[report_2]

Try running IE repair from Add/Remove, Microsoft Internet Explorer within the Control Panel to see if it will complete the incomplete install.

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[TonyKlein]

It's a common error, and this is the way to solve it:

Shut down Internet Explorer and Outlook Express.

Now go to Start/Find, and type wininit.ini
When found, highlight the file and hit 'delete'

Warning: don't touch Wininit.exe

Go to C:\Windows\Temp, and empty the folder completely.
Now install IE again.

Good luck, Tony

[reghakr]

andy,

check the contents of these keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServicesOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunOnce

Then delete all files and folders from the c:\windows\temp directory.

reghakr

[andyhalsall]

I already have deleted winint.ini and tried to remove and repair internet explorer as I said before with no successful, so next idea please????

[TonyKlein]

Here's a list posted by Internet Explorer MVP Jim Byrd in a newsgroup thread.

Maybe there's something in it for you:

This is my standard "spiel" about install problems such as yours. There are
three things you might want to check. In any of these install fixes, to
quote Steve Cochran, "It is essential that no "interfering" software be
running during the install and subsequent reboot. This is particularly true
of antivirus software. Most or many of the corrupt installs involve
installations while AV or other software is loaded and these prevent the
ability of the setup process to upgrade dlls, and consequently installations
fail or are incomplete." In addition, I would suggest disabling ALL Norton
software, particularly System Doctor, if present.

Fix # 1: Try running ie6setup in Safe Mode. This was suggested by
Microsoft Support to one correspondent and worked for him after he had tried
the fixes described below. If it doesn't for you then try the following.

Fix # 2: First, make sure in Win Explorer/Tools/FolderOptions/View that you
show hidden and system files and show extensions. If your OS is NT, then
you MUST be logged on as Administrator both to install and for the first
reboot. Based on my own experience, I believe this is also a good practice
for Win2k, but MS does not say it's required in that case.

Look in your c:\windows\inf folder and see if you find any files named
oemxx.inf which have a length of 0 (zero), where the xx can be any number.
There could be potentially many thousands. If you do, you need to erase
these. To do this, first select the c:\windows\inf folder, then hit Search.
In the Search pane on the left, enter oem*.inf and down at the bottom click
Size and At Most and 1 (one). Then do Search. When it finishes, you should
have all of the zero length oemxx.inf files listed in the right pane along
with possibly some of size 1K. Do CNTL A to select all of them. Now hold
down CNTL while you click on (de-select) all of those at the top that are
1K, so the only the 0K size files are left selected. Now hold down SHIFT
and click DELETE to delete the zero length oemxx.inf files without sending
them to the Recycle Bin. It will take some time if you've a lot of these
files, so be patient. You'll know when it's done.

Now re-start your computer into DOS using a boot floppy if necessary and run
Scandisk C:, fixing any errors. If you're not NT or Win2k, also run Scanreg
/fix. Re-boot to Windows Safe mode and defrag your computer (which will
also probably take a little time), and try your install again from Safe
mode.. If it works, fine.

Fix # 3: If not, or if you didn't have such zero length oemxx.inf type
files to start with, try the following. Find the c:\program files\internet
explorer\uninstall information folder (It may be named something slightly
different depending on your operating system, for example, just Uninstall in
WinME.) It probably will be hidden, and you will have to un-hid it. Right
click on the folder, select properties, then un-tick the Hidden attribute.
(If you don't have this folder, then create an empty one named: c:\program
files\internet explorer\uninstall information - now try your install again
in Safe mode, re-selecting all components, even those already bolded. See
below.)

Now create a new empty folder and call it something like "IE Delete Backup".
Move the contents of the \uninstall information folder to the new folder you
created. (Just the contents - leave the old folder there.) Now try the
install again from the start in Safe mode, re-selecting all components, even
those already bolded, that you want using the Advanced option, and see if
this works. It has in many, many cases, but not all. If it doesn't, you
can just restore the files you saved in "IE Delete Backup". Let us know how
you make out, so that if this doesn't help, perhaps someone else can suggest
something else for you.

[reghakr]

Check the contents of the IE Setup Log.txt in the c:\windows directory.

reghakr