Internet Explorer Hidding From Me, Help!
 

Not my day.

I formated my harddrive and reinstalled XP.

Now Internet Explorer is missing (some of you would say this is a good sign lol)

I can now only access my internet explorer thru xp update and then change the url to something else and then make a direct shortcut to the page i am browsing. (google for now)

If I look in program files > explorer i cannot find a file to help me resurrect explorer...

I went to microsoft.com and downlaoded explorer 6 but it still says that the explorer i have is newer so the other cannot be installed.

So in short:

I have explorer installed but cannot find it / make a shortcut for the desktop...

Advice needed.

Thanks
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Did you try Start> Search ?

Yes...

i can find the folder and there is a few files in it but the main file is nowhere to be found... like i said a very strange day here at my office! :helpme

what folder are you looking in?

I have the link in
> start to outlook express and explorer.... but the explorer shortcut goes to internet settings...

explorer is what got you in trouble in the first place.
download firefox and be done with it.
link
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Not showing in Program Files > Internet Explorer > IEXPLORE?

If no, do a file search for IEXPLORE and if that fails then uninstall the other files in Internet Explorer and then reinstall.

> program files

>> internet explorer (only have subfolders connection wizard, plugins & signup)

Been looking in > windows also but still no luck..

I have it but i need to run all my sites and stuff thru explorer also to verify everything is okay.

My best solution is to open a beer and turn up for some music LOL!

in the internet explorer folder should be explorer.exe

not found and IEXPLORE not found only help files....

strange thing is i can kickstart explorer thru windows updateshort cut and then change url and make a direct link to the page in question... but it will be buggin' me each time i start the computer LOL!

create a desktop shortcut to a Internet Explorer window that opens up about:blank

GOT it...

Found my xp corp and did a repair.. doh why did i not think of that.

Thanks for all the help... time for beer!

Ok, so when you have explorer running (even if you needed to kickstart), click ALT+CTRL+DEL and see the name of the program that's running.

After that do a search for that exact program and you should find it.

why dont yuou just get firefox?

I have firefox but to verify all my new projects i need to know all sites kick ass in all browsers!

Firefox would be quite better than the usual internet explorer set up dude!

start menu > run > iexplore.exe