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by **Edward** » Sat 29 Mar, 2003 7:13 pm

I was asked the other day, how come an XP Home system could not find Internet Explorer after a power outage.

I don't know how old or new the system in question is, but it's running XP Home. After a power failure, the system was turned on, and when IE was launched afterwards, there was an error message that the system could not find it.

She is now using Netscape 7 as a substitute, but was curious (as I am) as to what might have caused the above to occur, if there is an explanation...

I suggested that she go into the Windows Control Panel (or whatever it is called in XP) go to Add/Remove Programs, select IE, and see if there is a Repair option for it, and to try that if there is one.

Any thoughts as to what might have happened???

UserAgent: Opera/7.03 (Windows 98; U) [en]

by **DJGM** » Sat 29 Mar, 2003 9:12 pm

It's a blessing in disguise, if you ask me, and one more Netscape user!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02

by **Edward** » Sun 30 Mar, 2003 7:19 am

I'll find out on Monday if they managed to get IE working again, if not, I'll give her the Netscape download link for 7.02.

UserAgent: Opera/7.03 (Windows 98; U) [en]

by **Josh** » Sun 30 Mar, 2003 5:11 pm

Edward,

Tell your friend to do these things:

1. Go to Run and type in iexplore.exe, the name of the MSIE binary. If present, MSIE should run.

2. Go to C:\\Program Files\Internet Explorer\ and see if iexplore.exe is there.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

by **Edward** » Mon 31 Mar, 2003 5:59 pm

Received an update today.

The computer was on, and being used, when the power outage occurred. Would that change anything?

My first thought was that perhaps the hard drive may have written something to the drive at the exact second the power went out, which may have inadvertently deleted IE from that system.

UserAgent: Opera/7.03 (Windows 98; U) [en]

by **Edward** » Tue 01 Apr, 2003 5:39 pm

DJGM wrote:It's a blessing in disguise, if you ask me, and one more Netscape user!

Looks like you won! They are very happy with Netscape.

UserAgent: Opera/7.03 (Windows 98; U) [en]

by **Wellander** » Tue 01 Apr, 2003 10:42 pm

Hi,
Yah
Who needs Ineternet Explorer.
The answer is the people who do not want to be sucure or people Who do not care abuot it.
I am very that they are very happy with netscape.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.75 [en]C-CCK-MCD BDP81800 (Windows NT 5.0; U)

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XP Home system can't find IE after power outage

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