Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Managed to bring my PC back to life yesterday and everything seemed to be working. However now, Internet Explorer and Firefox just won't open . Emails work (and YS's World of Warcraft) so the connection is ok. I just can't open a browser . Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 force it open. Go to command prompt and type in: run firefox.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 That didn't work . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 The only thing I'd say is reinstall them from a memory stick or CD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 I'll try copying IE onto a memory stick and see if that works . Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Don't use IE. Its too intergrated into windows, use firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 Don't worry Fred I do use Firefox (but I thought you had to have IE installed on your system?) I managed to copy both onto a memory stick, and have got Firefox running . I'm downloading IE8 but don't plan to use it (is that a waste of space then ?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 No, Windows needs IE to work. (Stupid I know) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Did you get it working ANH? I had a similar problem a while ago and reistalling them both worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 Yes, I did, thanks . IE wouldn't load from the memory stick but Firefox did so I used that to then download IE off the internet. All working nicely now . (And I'm quite proud of myself for fixing it .) During the process I discovered that Virginmedia give you free online backup space for your files and emails/addresses etc so will probably use that as a second backup . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
