August 18, 200521 yr My daughter has an older laptop that she use for small applications. She wanted to get on the internet. I bought a wireless card to use on laptop. Her laptop runs windows SE. I saw that windows SE has Explorer 5.0. I have DSL at home running Windows Xp Pro. My problem is that when I try to install her wireless card it's asking for IE 5.5 or higher. I don't have dial up any more so I can't connect her modem to upgrade. Tried to download Explorer and it keeps telling me that I have newer version allready installed. Can I download explorer to Zp drive or something to install on laptop?
August 19, 200521 yr Author yes I understand that. My problem is that I can't download on her laptop. When I try to download IE on my desktop it tells me that I have a newer version of IE and it will not let me download.
August 19, 200521 yr yes I understand that. My problem is that I can't download on her laptop. When I try to download IE on my desktop it tells me that I have a newer version of IE and it will not let me download.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Download from elsewhere than MS update.Here for example : http://browsers.evolt.org/download.php?/ie...SP2/ie55sp2.exe.
August 22, 200521 yr The proper way to Upgrade an I.E. 5.0 install to I.E. 6/SP1 is with the CD from Microsoft. I got mine for free.....I think I paid the shipping and handling charge of $5 or so.Almost any (decent) tech in your area should have one. Have you asked?I personally did not want a copy, so I got mine directly from Microsoft.I use it often on service calls where I'm faced with an old PC running ver 5 or 5.5.The download from MS is problematical at best.Cheers,Andromeda43
August 23, 200521 yr On your desktop machine, you need to download not in the "normal" way, but along the lines of these instructions:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;257249&sd=techPLEASE, DOUBLE check the parameters, and verify that the quotes are matching, it is the single most reported problem, as the quotes must be EXACTLY as stated.also you will need the /d:1 switch to download for all OS.jaclaz
August 23, 200521 yr this is about to sound stupid but you could have just installed one of the many aol discs floating around out there, that would have updated it......also some of the old msn dics had so u could just copy the IE folder straight off the cd and install it, if u have one of those avaiable........ Edited August 23, 200521 yr by diesel_98a
August 24, 200521 yr Maybe I'm in a strange mood today, but if canoncopy asks how he can download a full IE update, WHY everyone else is trying to convince him to get a CD? On a side note, some good uses for AOL's CDs:http://www.koolpages.com/hokuspokus/make/aolcds.htmlExperiments with 'em:http://homepages.newnet.co.uk/martynarnold/aol.htmhttp://homepages.newnet.co.uk/martynarnold/armour.htmOr contribute to this great campaign:http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/ jaclaz
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