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Tanya - 29 Jul 2005 04:41 GMT

hello,
hopefully this is the right group for the following...
i need to upGrade to i.e. 5.5 on 3 pcs (2 have win95b, other is win98se)

2 of the pc's have i.e. 5.0; the other (win95b) has i.e. 4.72.
i have (on a zip disk from 2001) 'windows update setup files' which is
29.9 mbs (and contains 50 files) and a file by the name of:
ie5setup.exe (which is only 498 kbs) but the product version is
5.50.4522.1800...
can these be used to upGrade to i.e. 5.5 on the i.e. 5.0 pc's?

if i cannot use these (on the zip disk), is there any way to download
i.e. 5.5 once for the 3 pc's?
(i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
thank you in advance!

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Alan Edwards - 29 Jul 2005 08:52 GMT

Tanya,

I have no idea what your 'windows update setup files' is.
If you supply details of what is in it, someone may help, although
this old IE5 group is not used much (the IE5.5 group doesn't have much
more traffic either)
Your IE5setup.exe stub has a version number of IE5.5 SP1 and may try
and connect to the Internet to find nothing at Microsoft available.

The 80MB download is so big because it contains IE5.5 for more than
one version of Windows +IEAK and I have really forgotten what else.

The Win98 SE computer can be upgraded to IE6 via Windows Update.
I would not use an old version like IE5.5 when you don't have to.

Old IE versions.
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/microsoft/ie/
http://www.greenapple.com/support/software/browsers/default.htm

For IE5.5 SP2, you can get a CD here for $2.99
http://on-disk.com/ie55sp2.html

...Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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>hello,
>hopefully this is the right group for the following...
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>(i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
>thank you in advance!

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Tanya - 30 Jul 2005 02:41 GMT

thank you very much for replying and for the information!
i'll just download ie 6 through windows update... i guess ie6 is stable?
sincerely
Tanya

> Tanya,
>
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> >(i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
> >thank you in advance!

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE - 30 Jul 2005 10:45 GMT

You can't put IE6 in Win95.
That being said, IE6 is more stable than any previous version.

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> thank you very much for replying and for the information!
> i'll just download ie 6 through windows update... i guess ie6 is stable?
[quoted text clipped - 43 lines]
>> >(i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
>> >thank you in advance!

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Tanya - 31 Jul 2005 04:59 GMT

thank you for replying also for the info re: needing to use the same pc that i
downloaded the files for internet explorer 5.5 on.
i have decided to use ie 6 on the windows 98se pc only...
sincerely
Tanya

> You can't put IE6 in Win95.
> That being said, IE6 is more stable than any previous version.
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> >> >(i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
> >> >thank you in advance!

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Alan Edwards - 30 Jul 2005 12:10 GMT

Hi Tanya

It has been stable for me with Win98 SE for nearly 5 years and I don't
understand how you have survived the Internet without it.
I assume you disregard Windows Update? (or don't bother with it?)
You really don't have much choice if you want the security of IE6

...Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

>thank you very much for replying and for the information!
>i'll just download ie 6 through windows update... i guess ie6 is stable?
[quoted text clipped - 43 lines]
>> >(i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
>> >thank you in advance!

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Tanya - 31 Jul 2005 04:58 GMT

thanks again for replying!

> Hi Tanya
>
> It has been stable for me with Win98 SE for nearly 5 years and I don't
> understand how you have survived the Internet without it.

not very efficiently :)

> I assume you disregard Windows Update? (or don't bother with it?)
> You really don't have much choice if you want the security of IE6

i'm looking forward to internet explorer 6.
thanks!
sincerely
Tanya

> ...Alan
> --
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> >> >(i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
> >> >thank you in advance!

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE - 29 Jul 2005 21:22 GMT

> hello,
> hopefully this is the right group for the following...
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> (i am on dialUp and the file is over 80 mb)
> thank you in advance!

No. C:\Windows\Windows Update Setup Files contains the files for the
machine it is on. The setup should fail on anything but the version that
downloaded it.

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