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| Thread ID: 46938 | 2004-07-10 06:12:00 | How can I get rid of MYIE2 - for good? | Jester (13) | Press F1 |
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| 251262 | 2004-07-10 06:12:00 | I tried the MYIE2 program after the rave review in last month's PC World, but after playing with it decided it was not what it promised, and had too many hooks in my system, and essentially was still IE. I uninstalled it and will continue with Firebird. Anyway, bits of it are still around. There are a few shortcuts on my desktop to URL's, which now when I click say that they are still looking for MYIE2. If I right click things there is also a MYIE2 option in the options too. Screenshots show what I mean. sal.neoburn.net sal.neoburn.net I have checked the file associations box and all URL and HTML extentions are set to open in Firebird, so I would like to know how to rid MYIE2 from my PC for good. Any ideas? J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 251263 | 2004-07-10 06:18:00 | Registry cleaner? RegSeeker is a good one. Reformat? That will definitely work. ;-) :p :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 251264 | 2004-07-10 06:21:00 | > Reformat? That will definitely work. ;-) ummmm, yep I am sure it will. Now, wheres that big foam baseball bat I have round here with Susan's name on it ... ahhh there it is ..... |
Jester (13) | ||
| 251265 | 2004-07-10 06:25:00 | To get rid of that message about not finding myie.exe you need to set either IE or whatever other browser you have back to being the default. | Jen C (20) | ||
| 251266 | 2004-07-10 06:35:00 | > To get rid of that message about not finding myie.exe > you need to set either IE or whatever other browser > you have back to being the default. I have Firebird as my default browser, which opens when a PC World CD is put in, I click a link in Outlook, and every other application requiring a browser is used, but not desktop shortcuts for some reason. All URL and http file associations appear to point to Firebird in the File Types box. I just created some new desktop shortcuts to try again and it was the same - looks for myie2. I have now got around it by browsing to the mozilla.exe, but it bugs me that some of the myie2 remnants are there. Will hunt down regseeker and give that a whirl. J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 251267 | 2004-07-10 06:45:00 | If your registry hunt and kill doesn't do the trick, you may wish to look at this article (www.mvps.org). Invasive wee beasty isn't it. :| |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 251268 | 2004-07-10 07:11:00 | Regseeker found s***loads of myie2 hooks, and I cleaned them up (- with other things I thought I had got rid of ages ago - regseeker appears to be quite thorough). I still have the problem though :( For anyone that cares, imho : DONT USE MYIE2 - It is trumpeted as something that is less invasive than IE, but seems more so. J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 251269 | 2004-07-10 08:18:00 | meh, it's still better than MSIE. | Megaman (344) | ||
| 251270 | 2004-07-10 09:40:00 | > meh, it's still better than MSIE. So is almost anything. including a few tropical diseases :D R2 |
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