[G4] Can't reinstall Internet Explorer

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Wed May 26 13:00:49 PDT 2004


On 05/26/04, Joe Dundovic <jodun at usinternet.com> wrote, among other things:
>
> From: John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com>
> On 05/24/04, Joe Dundovic <jodun at usinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Ron, I did what you said and downloaded another copy of Internet
>>  Explorer 5.1.7.smi.  When I tried to install it I got the same
>>  blocking message about the lack of "appropriate privileges".  So I am
>>  still stymied as to what to do next.  Maybe the best answer is to go
>>  back to Netscape and forget about Internet Explorer.
>
> According to <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#IE>, Internet
> Explorer 5.1.6 for Mac OS 8.1 to 9.x is the latest for non-Mac OS X. I
> don't know why you'd get anything about privileges trying to install
> anything in OS 9. AFAIK, privileges are unique to OS X.
>
> [The above download site shows I.E. v.5.1.7, which is what I used.  JD]

I just checked again and you're correct. I must be losing my eyesight, but
when I went there before it only showed 5.1.6 (or at least I thought that's
what I copied). Glad you fixed the problem.



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