![]() Many of the problems have been cleared up now. There have been problems with Internet Explorer in the past and your Dads friend was trying to make your computer more secure for you. Go to Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and it will show the accounts and who if any are restricted. Restricted accounts are set up by the administrator. If you have four people using the same computer at least one will be the administrator and have total access.Ī restricted account allows someone else to download small programs and make personal changes to the computer for their own use but cannot change the basic operating condition of the computer. There is an administrative account on a computer that allows the person in charge of the computer to make changes to the operating system by installing various programs or deleting various programs as they see fit. Īs you will read Internet Explorer is absolutely necessary if you want to get Critical Updates for Windows from Microsoft and keep your computer secure. ![]() It will make it easier for you to provide answers that someone may ask you on a tech forum like we have here. This is a small program that will do a scan of your computer and show you what you have. If you are not sure about what you have on your computer go here You can read about it here - Just click on these links. I suggest you ask your Dad to contact his friend again and have him install Internet Explorer and Messenger ( not messenger Plus ). Please find out about Internet Explorer first off though To satisfy the question about user accounts Go to Control Panel > User Accounts and it will show there the accounts and who if any are restricted. If Firefox does not work well but you have Internet Explorer working again Go to Control Panel > add/remove and remove Firefox Restart your computer and download and install Firefox again If you get both IE and Firefox working Then I suggest going to Control Panel >add/remove and remove messenger, Restart your computer and download it again following all directions carefully when installing. ( Stay away from Messenger Plus for now ) Make sure you can use it or get your Dads friend to fix it up for you. I suggest first clear up the question about Internet Explorer. I use Firefox all the time and switch back to Explorer as necessary. It is required to access some security sites and Windows critical updates. ![]() ![]() It should be listed in programs and is part of the Windows. Hi Velvtprncess Talk to your Dad and ask him if he / someone tried to remove Internet Explorer. Maybe i could download internet explorer if you cant help me with this.so where can i download internet explorer Have you tried Yahoo Messenger or AOL Messenger? i have yahoo messenger right now but no one else is allowed to download it and majority have msn messenger. im pretty sure i did because a message came up saying to change firefox to my default and i pressed yes.ĭo you have any idea what change was made to Internet Explorer? um not sure what you mean by that.i got a new computer and my dads friend put firefox on cos he said that internet explorer has too many virus's Was Internet Explorer configured so it was not the default browser? how do you change firefox to the the default browser. and it worked till i got to the end of the installation. Have you redownloaded MSN Messenger since Internet Explorer was changed ? yeah i did redownload msn messenger. i installed msn messenger 6.2 and it said i dont have the right requirements to install it.but i was wondering if there are any exceptions out there for firefox users. Are you receiving any error messages with MSN Messenger? well wen i have finished installing it, it says that i dont have the right requirements. ![]()
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