Wolfi wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: > > Graham wrote:
> >>Felix Miata wrote: > >>>Anyone who uses both windoze and OS/2 ever find instructions for > >>>installing a new build to W2K? I can't find any. > >>Uninstall the previous one, > > Once you've deleted the uninstall.log file among the rest of the bin > > directory, that option vanishes. > >>then install the new one. Your individual > >>settings should be preserved. Hacking things out instead of uninstalling > >>them is one of the best ways of messing up Windoze in my experience, > >>leading to all sorts of orphaned junk in the registry, files Windows' > >>own directories which shouldn't be there etc.. In short, do it Bill's > >>way, or no way! > > Which Bill's way? > > I downloaded not the exe, but the zip, which includes no such > > instructions, nor any instructions at all. > I'm sorry that I can't help you right now to come out of your mess, but for > future Mozilla builds on WinXYZ you should use the > mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe build versions. I wound up downloading that too. > After downloading you only need to 2-click on them and then the > self-extracting-archive (-sea.) automatically starts the installer and you > simply follow the instructions. > To remove such a version you either find a uninstall icon in the Mozilla > program folder on the desktop or use the > Start-SystemControl-Software_something (I hope the retranslation back to > english hits the point)and look there for the Installed Software (or similar) > tab. Chosing in the list of user installed programs (its not the configuration > tab of Windows itself) the line with Mozilla and then click the button delete > or remove. That should be all, to get rid of an old version. > But I also several times in the past did simply a installation over the old > version. So far it worked, but no garanties. > Hope this helps for future installations. I had hoped to avoid such a procedure. I don't like the way windoze decides to install software in 80 gazillion character long directory nests. I put Mozilla off the root instead of progra~1\etc\etc\etc\etc\.... I had hoped to avoid going through those gyrations again when I found the zip build available. I managed to fix this, and it is probably thanks to the M$ OE virus transmission system that I was able to. Since I couldn't run uninstall after the manual delete, I was afraid to simply install from the exe. I remembered on W2K that OE was not an uninstallable feature, but that there was a procedure I found on the net somewhere for ridding windoze of that pest. I converted what I found into a BAT file I run from a maintenance boot. In that file begins as follows: echo open REGEDIT echo DEL HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express echo DEL HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WAB echo DEL HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities echo DEL HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express echo DEL HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB echo REMOVE ANY CD's from CD Reader pause What I did was follow the above instructions, but substituting Mozilla and mozilla.org for Outlook Express and WAB. Then I ran the exe installer. Mozilla seems to now be fine, except that the new build didn't solve the bug 152077 problem that made me even want to boot W2K to install a newer Mozilla in the first place. :-( -- "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
