Upgrade Windows me to XP home edition & can't surf the web.

NTFS, XP Home Edition (upgrade over Windows me)

My internet explorer doesn't work (it did initially) and I can't surf the
web. When I click on a link, enter a website in run, or click on a page in
Favorites, I get multiple instances of Internet explorer which keep
transferring the focus back and forth and go nowhere. What's happening? How
can I fix it.

Clicking on Internet Explorer in the tray, takes me to my home site, and I
can go to its properties and change the homesite to where I want to go, then
close it and click on the icon in the tray and go there, but that's
ridiculous. Clicking on the IE icon on the desk top does nothing but create
a desktop IE shortcut that doesn't work.

What hasn't worked: removing and reinstalling (in windows features of
control panel) Internet Explorer.

Reinstalling over the original install.

?????????

 

Have you tried running a good antivirus, such as Kaspersky? What about
running a good antispyware program, such as Spybot Search and Destroy?
Have you tried another browser such as Firefox?

 

I'm running McAfee and it reports no virus, The ISP's Norton reports no
virus.

No I haven't tried a different browser. I will, if I can get to it <g>..

Thank you,

 

I suspect that this will end up with you running HijackThis. Don't go
willy-nilly with it, post the log to one of the online forums and wait
to get help. And when I said "good" antivirus, I was specifically not
thinking about the two you mentioned.

 

That might have been your first mistake.

Back up all your data to external media, and do a complete overwrite and
install from scratch.

Be sure you install a firewall before you ever, ever connect it to the
Internet, else you have under 12 minutes before it is toast.

 

Okay, thanks for the tip. I thought I had a good one, but it's nice to know
there are better.

However, I was able to change the browser to a later version and solve the
problem.

Thank you.

 

I thought that too.

It wouldn't let me do that.

It doesn't get connected to anything before the firewall goes up.


Thank you.

 

You have to boot from the CD.
Depending on your bios, you may have to hit a key during POST for the boot
menu, you may have to change the boot order in the bios, or it may boot from
cd by default. (Look for "press any key to boot from cd")

During the setup options, format your drive NTFS, if the drive is big enough,
delete the whole thing and make a 20GB partition for windows, and save the
rest for data/backup/storage.

 

In the future, NEVER upgrade a previous version of Windows over an
existing version. All, in every case, new versions of Windows are best
installed totally fresh, NOT as an upgrade, especially from windows ME.

 

You're RIGHT!!!!

 

Okay. It's resolved, but I'll remember that for the future. I didn't boot
from the CD, but manually went to it after booting.



Thanks,