Comments on: IE6 crashes in Windows XP: fixing the fix

If your copy of Internet Explorer starting crashing after installing the December 11th round of bug fixes to Windows, there is now a simple patch.

[Thevigilante]

The dialog box you said scared you off is shown on all windows update installs, and shows everything installed after the update. I think it's just a failsafe for Microsoft in case uninstalling one DID happen to break something else. Chances of it are really small though.

[mhinnewyork]

To: Thevigilante
Thanks for the heads up. My guess was that it was just showing anything installed after the patch being removed, but that was only a guess based on the fact that the two applications it showed, CCleaner and the Flash Player plugin were the last two things installed on that machine.

[Conneriscool]

do you write about Macs too?

[mhinnewyork]

To: Conneriscool
No, I'm not a Mac user.

[Conneriscool]

well you wouldn't have to bother with any of this stuff if you did get a Mac. Seriously its so much eaier than Mac and it rarely has bugs or viruses. Windows disgusts me

[frasercrane]

Hold on there, big fella! You have proudly proclaimed you don't and won't use Vista but that hasn't kept you from blogging Vista to death. In fact, looking at your profile, as I do of all bloggers, I see you tried to blog on a product (Asus EE PC 4g) you never even used and was prevented from doing so.

[berock]

Recently, possibly because of the MS original "fix", MS IE6 continually crashes ("Not Responding"). I installed this fix of a fix and noticed NO improvement whatsoever. MS IE6 continues to crash in the middle of essential web-based transactions. I, for one, intend to shift to Mozilla Firefox as an immediate solution. In the longer-term, MS IE poor reliability has convinced me that there's ZERO future in MS and will shift to web-based and Apple OS X based solutions. MS, you finally pushed it to the point of losing me!