This might not be the right forum, but it's the closest I could find. My comp crashed the other day--well, I was working around the back of it and accidently hit the power switch, doh--so ran chkdsk a couple of times and everything seems fine except that Explorer crashes to desktop (sound familiar) on some sites. I've deleted all internet files, and even downloaded Firefox, but stupidly imported my settings from Explorer so it crashes as well. What settings or files could be doing this if I've deleted all Internet files? There has to be something corrupt in there that is crashing it but I've no idea what it is, and there's no way to uninstall Explorer and reinstall. Any thoughts appreciated. Thx!billg

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You can reinstall IE. Follow these1. While you are logged on as an administrator, click Start, and then click Run. 2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK. 3. Locate the appropriate registry subkey, right-click the IsInstalled (REG_DWORD) value, and then click Modify. To reinstall only the Internet Explorer 6 browser component on Windows XP, use the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftActive SetupInstalled Components{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383}To reinstall only Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP, use the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftActive SetupInstalled Components{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C} 4. Change the value data from 1 to 0, and then click OK. 5. Quit Registry Editor, and then install Internet Explorer 6. Good LuckAllen

Thx for the reply Allen! I gave it a go but it dosn't seem to erase the existing installation. I think I have a corrupted file in there somewhere and have to get IE entirely off my system and reinstall completely from scratch.billg

use firefox instead, and try repair plus run some anti-virus and spyware software. some spyware cause crashes

Browsing in IE relies on mshtml.dll to decode html files and display them in the browser window. If you're experiencing crashes in both IE and FireFox then I would expect it's a common file hich is corrupt, and the first suspect would be mshtml.dll. A full re-install of IE should fix that.