Internet Explorer Is Corrupted… How Do I Fix It?

Very rarely do we ever get our systems beat up so badly that we have to perform surgery on them... sometimes, you feel like you need to reinstall the whole system, or sometimes you wish you didn’t have to – and could just repair it, as is, where it sits. Well, before you do anything rash, try this handy step by step article and script to re-register your Internet Explorer and hopefully ‘clean’ it of problems. Let’s see what two quick tips can do to spare you from possible disaster.

Introduction
This article we will cover how to quickly repair your Internet explorer if you are having serious problems such as, explorer.exe (the system shell) won’t load, or if your Internet Explorer Web browser is completely corrupted. Both of these systems on your Windows Server or Desktop system will surely create headaches. Using the regsvr32 and sfc /scannow commands we will see how we can quickly repair our systems when disaster strikes.

This is a real life actual experience I encountered this past month while working on a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory repair. On one of the servers after we (working with Microsoft) applied tested hotfixes, explorer.exe wouldn’t load when rebooted. A script was deployed and within two fixes, the whole system came back to life when it looked as if an in place upgrade or fresh install would have been the next options of the evening.

Always remember to reapply hotfixes and service packs after repairing system files against any source disk.

First, we tried the quicker easier way. We attempted quick surgery – we attempted to repair the actual files that the shell and Internet Explorer uses.

(Remember – using scripts for the first time should always be done on a test system to ensure success)

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MS Repair install IE6 and OE6

There is also a quick and dirty method

Neuromancer wrote:

MS Repair install IE6 and OE6 There is also a quick and dirty method

I've tried this before and it didn't work.

I had to reinstall Windows.


But philey's way I have never seen before, it looks involved.

I am considering a reinstall of the XP OS; client had system bogged down with trojans/virus/other malware and spyware. Got the junk removed, but IE6 is acting up; when you click on a link in a web page, sometimes nothing happens, or it opens a new window, where nothing happens. I quickfixed it so they can use the internet by using either Firefox or Slimbrowser. This system has SP2 but this did not fix the problem, as it was there prior to the SP2 install. I think it was a byproduct of all the malware.....

There is actually a dirt-easy method of reinstalling IE. Have Your XP Disk in the Drive.

Go to:

C:\Windows\INF\

And right-click and 'install' ie.inf. This is essentially performing a reinstall of IE.

Hope this quick trick helps

synaptic wrote:

There is actually a dirt-easy method of reinstalling IE. Have Your XP Disk in the Drive. Go to: C:\Windows\INF\ And right-click and 'install' ie.inf. This is essentially performing a reinstall of IE. Hope this quick trick helps

This way works better than the other way.

I could never get the other way to work.