We have a SMALL business P-P network with five machines.

In three of the five, IE6 is exhibiting anomalous behavior (all different). The other two are fine.

1. IE6 HOME page Selector tool disabled. (Netscape & Firefox OK)

2. IE6 Refuses to download any files. (Netscape & Firefox OK)

3. A single website refuses connections to any browser on that machine. Other sites OK. Same site works fine with all browsers on the other machines via same network path.

Have checked and compared every option setting between working and non-working machines and still have the same problem.

We are thinking that reloading IE6 or (undesirably) Windows XP Pro may be the only answer.

Any suggestions or tips on how to unload/reload IE6 welcom
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial71.htmlThe information provided by "bleepintcomputer.com" was interesting however, INEFFECTIVE. It is dated 2004 and may have once worked, but no longer so.

Changing the Registry entry does indicate to XP that IE has been uninstalled. However any attampt to reload aborts with error that it detects a newer version and cannot proceed. I am unable to find any information on actually un-installing IE6-SP2

The thought of having to reload XP is not a good one. Does anyone have any other solution to this problem?

And you are sure that you are spyware/adware/virus free?His computer is clean because the information at the provided link was ineffective and that was the 1st question asked.
Would he confess anyway. Actually I would have admitted it, if I had overlooked a full Virus and Spyware scan of each of these CPUs.

Spyware was previously scanned for by "Spyware Dr" and now by "MS Antispyware Beta."

Some hyjacked Host Processes were initially found and removed by the MS product. That was prior to my INITIAL posting. There have been none since.

Each system is fully up-to-date and all are scanned nightly by both Norton AV Pro and MS Antispyware Beta.

Still the main question remains unanswered:
Is there a way of REMOVING IE6-SP2 and re-installing it, short of re-installing the Windows XP OS?What about this?

http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

It works just as advertised on Win98 (I've used it) - takes IE totally out of there, so I would suspect they can do it painlessly in XP as well.