IE 5.5 buggy

[c-hoppe]

After a year of pretty faultless use of IE 5.0 I installed 5.5. What a mistake. Now I get freeze ups, blue screens and IE sometimes refuses to shut down and won't let windows shut down. This is happening on both my pc's. Have tried using the repair function to no avail.
Anyone else have this problem or now a fix. Is there a way to go back to 5.0 without loosing my favorites and saved settings and passwords?

[reboot]

AFAIK, IE5.5 works just fine on newer machines, but I too have had troubles on older stuff.
Just use the add/remove in control panel, and it will remove IE5.5 and revert back to your previous version. No loss of data, favourites, anything.

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Cheers, Jim
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[c-hoppe]

Reboot,
Let me get this straight before I try this. I can use the remove in control panel and it will indeed only remove 5.5 and 5.0 will still be residing and working as normal? Have you done this?

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Originally posted by reboot:
AFAIK, IE5.5 works just fine on newer machines, but I too have had troubles on older stuff.
Just use the add/remove in control panel, and it will remove IE5.5 and revert back to your previous version. No loss of data, favourites, anything.

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[fordvan]

Trust Reboot - He's right.
I have done that numerous times and had no problems.

[LawyerRon]

I've yet to have a problem with IE 5.5. I dumped Netscape 4.7. I had to. I just could'nt take it anymore.

IE 5.5 has been working fine for about 6 weeks with no problems.

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[Kubie]

I d/l'd IE 5.5 a few weeks ago and have a couple small problems. One that was mentioned at Winmag was that your printer will feed extra sheets of paper. Mine does, but not every time. Getting BSOD's once in a great while.
Found out that if you have Office 2000, you can't uninstall 5.5 without reinstalling Office.
I did a repair recently and have not had above mentioned problems. Only time will tell.
Carl

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[c-hoppe]

Well,
I tried uninstalling 5.5. It went back to version 3.02!, even though 5.0 was my previous version. It did keep my favorites and some settings but it put my home page backe to MSN.
go figure.