[dba-Tech] Compromised Internet Explorer?

John,

As I said in my original message, I did a Repair of the Windows XP
installation from the CD (which, of course, looks to be an
unauthorized copy). Can you answer this one for me: Can Windows XP be
re-installed completely WITHOUT affecting the installed software or
re-formatting the drive? If so, I can try that, too; but I'd think
that a repair would be just about the same thing.

I've got a hankerin' to reformat the drive as NTFS anyway...but can I
get away without doing that and re-install Windows?

Steve Erbach

On 5/5/05, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> I had an issue with IE not updating about 1.5 years ago - although the
> reason the updates would not download was made perfectly clear in that case.
> It was an improper XP ID key. It was the key that came with the CD but it
> would not register correctly with MS. It had been XPhe and was upgraded to
> XPPro (pre-me). In that case I had to reinstall XPpro to get it to work
> correctly. It probably could have been rectified another way but I didn't
> have the time to figure it all out so it was quicker to do the obvious.
> 
> 
> John B.
>