Problem Downloading Internet Explorer

Hi,

I'm running Vista Home Premium and SeaMonkey browser. The OEM IE7 does
not work, for some unknown reason, and I deleted it via the Vista
uninstall program method. When I search my hard drive for Internet
Explorer, it is no longer there. However, I tried several times to
download I.E.8 RCI (or whatever it is called), and keep getting a
message that it can't be downloaded because I have a newer version
already on my hard drive.
1) My deleted one was version 7
2) The 8 is the newest version, so how could I possibly have a newer
version already on board.

Does anyone have any idea as to how I can download and install I.E.8?

Thank you.

Morton Linder

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

Above is IE8 RC1 download site.

You can not uninstall IE7 from Vista.
--
Mad Mike


"Morton" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running Vista Home Premium and SeaMonkey browser. The OEM IE7 does
> not work, for some unknown reason, and I deleted it via the Vista
> uninstall program method. When I search my hard drive for Internet
> Explorer, it is no longer there. However, I tried several times to
> download I.E.8 RCI (or whatever it is called), and keep getting a
> message that it can't be downloaded because I have a newer version
> already on my hard drive.
> 1) My deleted one was version 7
> 2) The 8 is the newest version, so how could I possibly have a newer
> version already on board.
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to how I can download and install I.E.8?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Morton Linder
>

If you uninstalled IE7 from Vista then Vista will not work. You cannot uninstall IE7
from Vista. What you probably did is to remove the Icon and reference to it

--
Peter

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"Morton" <> wrote in message news:49ac889d$0$20301$...
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Vista Home Premium and SeaMonkey browser. The OEM IE7 does not work,
> for some unknown reason, and I deleted it via the Vista uninstall program method.
> When I search my hard drive for Internet Explorer, it is no longer there. However,
> I tried several times to download I.E.8 RCI (or whatever it is called), and keep
> getting a message that it can't be downloaded because I have a newer version
> already on my hard drive.
> 1) My deleted one was version 7
> 2) The 8 is the newest version, so how could I possibly have a newer version
> already on board.
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to how I can download and install I.E.8?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Morton Linder

Mick Murphy wrote:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>
> Above is IE8 RC1 download site.
>
> You can not uninstall IE7 from Vista.
Hi Mick,

Thanks for the reply. The link you referred to is labelled for Windows
Xp; I'm running Vista Home Premium. I did try to download fromn a
similar site, for Vista, and as in my original post, got a reply that I
can't download the newest RC1 version 8 because Windows has detected a
newer version on my hard drive.

As you and Peter said, I probably just deleted the I.E. 7 icon, but not
the program. Yet, in a catch-22, Windows is saying that my versiuon 7 is
newer than their version 8RC1. Perhaps Bill Gates has an explanation.

Thanks again to you both.

Morton