CowboyTurbo

ok, so I've managed to screw up my computer real good this time. I google'd "registry cleaner" a week ago in an effort to clean up the registry in my computer. I d/l'd and ran a whole bunch (3-5) of these so-called registry cleaner programs. After that, for some reason I could no longer view any images that were hosted on photobucket. Well I then google'd "photobucket troubleshoot" and read something about screwing around the settings on Internet Explorer~ so that's what I did. Next thing I know, all the text that I view on IE turned into like size 14 font (basically everything got bigger~ like my resolution got crappier). Soooo... I get this bright idea that I'll just remove IE and try to re-install it. I went to the add/remove software menu in the windows (running XP, sp1 + 2 updated) and removed the IE in the remove windows components section. Well now I can't even find IE on my computer even though I know it's there... so I'm reduced to using Mozilla Firefox (which still doesn't allow me to view photobucket hosted images~ I get that dreaded red X) rite now. I need my IE to work though because I use some sites that only use IE. Can somebody help me fix all my problems? Thanks to anybody who can help with this crap!!!

nsn240

i dunno how to fix it... but your computer needs IE to run a lot of stuff... i was pretty sure mozilla "uses" it for certain initial connections... reinstall IE

Helghast

if all fails you could always system restore to a latter date. That's the easy way out.

or search for "IEXPLORE.EXE"

240 Freak

Download the safest browser i've come across at getfirefox.com

Download Spybot Search & Destroy, too.

ReigH

netscape browser is good to use

Fast1One

That would be the best thing...if that fails you could always do a FULL system restore...just dont forget to backup everything

re037

if you have seperate partitions, back up and just reformat

CowboyTurbo

reformatting is not an option, it's just too much of a pain in the ***. I will remember to partition after I fix this problem though. Ok, so I managed to re-install my Internet Explorer, but once again all the text and stuff on any web sites I visit is still enlarged (even Yahoo) and I still can't view any pics form photobucket. C'mon guys, I know there's gotta be a few computer geeks around~ any ideas?

Helghast

in IE..

View>Text Size>Smaller

that's how you reduce the font size..

as for the photobucket..blame LEVEL3.net for that..

google it to find out more.

CowboyTurbo

thanx for the info Helghast, I read up on the Level3.net stuff but still haven't figured out a way around it yet.

re037

try this

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

works wonder back in the day, not sure how this new version is

and yeah, firefox > IE

shotty53

to make the font smaller. hold control, while ie is open, and scroll ur mouse wheel.

not sure if its up or down

LoseRPunKx182

safe mode and delete ur temp folder contents. alot of junk that's harmful gets put there

CowboyTurbo

*update Ok, everything is back to normal. Thx for all the help fellas.

Helghast

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