Trying to go back to IE5.5 from IE6

I am trying to get rid of IE altogether, but I have tried a few things i have seen posted on the net and none of them have worked, I mainly use Netscape but it seemd inevitable that IE still tries to open windows, can anyone help me, by the way i am using WinXP Pro, and I would at least like to be able to uninstall IE6 and go back to using 5.5

 

IE 6 is integrated into WinXP and you can't unistall it, and you can't roll it back to IE 5.5. I use Firefox and there are still a couple of things that open IE by default, Yahoo Mail is one, if I open it from the shortcut. I don't know if there is a way to truly make Netscape or any other browser the default browser.

 

What issues do you have? Perhaps I can help!

 

If you use the "Automatic Updates" feature, then you "shouldn't have any problems installing the latest updates".

Posted earlier.....

you could always try (at your own risk) using firefox to download updates via:

http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

 

Firefox is my default browser, everything opens with Firefox except a couple of things, Windows/Microsoft Update, of course, and Yahoo mail, if I use the shortcut.

Microsoft Update - Target = C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\muweb.dll,LaunchMUSite
Wndows Update - Target = %SystemRoot%\system32\wupdmgr.exe
Yahoo Mail - Target = C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\Common\ymmapi.dll,OpenURL http://mail.yahoo.com/?.redir=ymmapi9

Having checked the file associations everything is as it should be for Firefox being the default browser. So, what is it about the OpenURL command that it defaults to IE. Can it be changed, to open Firefox? I am convinced this is what causes some things to open in IE instead of the default browser.

If we can solve this, then we can make any browser we want truly the default browser

 

ok, well i have pretty much stopped it from opening, thanks for the help

 

What was opening IE and how did you stop it?