Hope I am in the correct place for this message! Ever since I changed to broadband and AOL I seem to have lost Internet Explorer. IE is not listed as being on my computer at all. I am OK with using computers but as soon as anything goes wrong, I am stuck.

Can anyone help me, prefably in layman's language.

Smiley-eiley

Click Start>Run. In the run box, type "iexplore.exe" If IE launches, then only the shortcuts have been deleted. You can re create the shortcuts manually by creating new shortcuts with the path as %ProgramFilesDir%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe.

%ProgramFilesDir% is the folder named "Program Files" in the drive in which windows is installed (Typically C

If typing iexplore.exe gives you an error, you have to re install Internet Explorer. Head to www.microsoft.com/ie to download IE6

Get Fire Fox lol

By lost the IE, i'm guessing that you mean the icon on the desk top is missing, if that is the case there is an easier way to replace it.

Click on start
Go to search
Type in Internet Explorer
Click on search

In the search results you will find a few IE icons, right click on the one which reads "Iaunch Lnternet Explorer Browser". A minu will appear, left click on create shortcut., and this should restore the IE icon to you desktop.

Thanks everyone for your replies, they are much appreciated.

It is not just the shortcut that is missing, when I click on that the page will not open and says there is an error. Guess I need to visit Micrsoft and download the programme again.

I'll give that a try.

Thanks again all.

Hi again - another quick question has cropped up. Can I download IE6 with SP1 even though I have SP2 installed on my computer? I don't see a download for just IE6. I can see this is going to get complicated

Hi!
Simply go to a Download site shuch as www.download.com and search Internet Explorer 6 and download it from there. OR if there isnt a download 4 6 there download an older version and wen u use theolder version you should get reminders to download the new version!

Hope this helps!
Dave.

Did you restore the shortcut?
What are you clicking on when you get the error message?
And what does the error message say?

Hi DCC

IE won't load from the shortcut , have also tried it from my favourites, still no go. When I type the web address in the address bar at the top it tells me it is waiting for the page to open up - but nothing happens. I get the heading for the page and the sub headings, like my favourites, search, etc. but the page itself won't open up and neither do any of the sub headings when I click on them. This is also happening on my partners PC, Incidently there are other web pages that won't open, could this be to do with the same problem?
smiley-eiley

Hi again...If you don't have IE, what are you entering the address in? And please tell me what you were clicking on when you got the error message, and what did it say?