IE 6 Reinstall Causes Desktop Display Chaos

From: Chris (chris_02468_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: 31 Jul 2003 12:00:47 -0700

Hi,
I have 2 hard drives in my PC and the master began to fail. I copied
all the contents to the slave and made the slave the only HD.
I got an error that my Norton AntiVirus wasn't working correctly and
that I would have to uninstall & reinstall it. Since I have NIS 2003,
I had to uninstall and reinstall that too. The NAV appeared to work
but I ended up with 2 problems: the NIS main page constantly showed
"refreshing" beside the modules and their placement on the page were
out of line; and the javascript in IE wasn't working. I uninstalled
and reinstalled the NAV and the NIS (and used the exe files with
Symantec recommends to do this) but no change. (as an aside, I also
have NSW 2002).
So I tried to "repair" the IE in the Add/Remove Programs but I got an
error message that the IE couldn't be repaired. And when I went to
look at the version of the IE in the Help section, the details on IE
weren't even displaying.
I then downloaded the IE 6 sp 1 from Microsoft and installed it again.
Everything went well, the PC rebooted and the NIS was working
correctly (no "refreshing" and the lines were aligned properly); and
the IE pages were displaying and acting correctly.
However, my PC froze about 3 hours later (not unusual since I have
W98SE) and when I rebooted, something happened to my desktop. At the
beginning of the Setup, right when the programs began to load in
(after I see my desktop), the Desktop display became all messed up. I
can see faintly parts of the original desktop. But on top on it are 2
small pictures of my destop in the top 1/2 of the screen (top center
and right); there are 3 minature pictures of one the screens in the
top 1/2 of the screen(top left, center, right); there are other things
here and there and there were mutli-colored lines at the bottom so I
can't see anything there. It is so bad that I really couldn't see
anything or get anything to work. I have GoBack and reverted my
system. I thought that the IE reinstall somehow corrupted my video
drivers so I reinstalled the IE 6 sp 1 again and then installed the
video drivers again and then rebooted and ... same problem.
I think this is an IE 6 sp1 problem but I could be wrong. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

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