A Mess with Zero Downloading Capabilities..Help?

Hello to you all, I'm new to the boards and have appropriately introduced myself in the "New" Column. I do have a slight problem. This morning I decided to Uninstall IE7 on Hubby's computer, thinking it would return to IE6 automatically as mine own did. Not! IE6 is not present and I did a restore but at that the IE 7 comes back without the ability to right click menu or open or download anything. Some of the apps will not open..for instance when I try and open Internet Options to review settings it will not open at all. When IE7 does come up the home page is stuck on Yahoo.com and will not open another browser window to any address. This is OEM installed Dell so I have no option but to restore. His System is WIN XP SP2 2.6G. I am definately going to another browser after this mess with IE7, This dog will just have to learn new tricks. I am confident enough to edit the registry if need be. IE7 just doesn't seem to work well with some programs or sites so that is the reason I was returning it to 6. Any fresh input would be most appreciated. I can use my computer to download to CD if necessary. Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.:wave

 

Hi zbd21 and thank you for your help. I have done 2 restores with the second being to Feb 21st...I still have no downloading capabilities or right click opening capability. If I could download the new browser or do a reinstall of 6 or 7 IE I would. When trying to go to Internet Options and open it, nothing happens. I think I am going to try either: a) Overinstalling from a Windows CD--someone else's as this machine is OEM or b) downloading to a saved document then add to CD. The only problem with this is that when I try and download from My computer of course it tells me I already have it installed and will go no further? I'm checking other posts right now....on the boards to see if there has been a similar problem someone might have posted.
Thanks again, Susan

 

Could you uninstall IE completely and then windows update find that you don't have internet explorer and installing IE over again?

 

Thank you for the suggestions, guys, I found the answer...apparently IE7 makes some changes to IE6 registry entries so I went into the registry and simply modified the value data to 0. It works fine now...Thanks again:wave