I have had to recently reinstall my XP OS, after getting things back to what I thought was normal I've found that on IE8 i the tools drop down I can not engage the internet options tab. It would just partially flash on and then disappear. Thinking it best to reinstall IE8 I tried but could not uninstall it it would only go so far and stop with a flash screen stating that certain files could not be copied unless they were from Network #### (sorry don't recall exact wording) and then would shut down the uninstall process. I left it at that thinking I had not usede the Internet options before I could live with out it.
Soon after that I started to get a series of Browser screens that were not IE8, so as I had done before I went to the control panel Internet Options to reaplly MSN as my browser choise, but to my surprise I could not open Internet Options from the Control Panel either.
both Internet Options one on IE8 and the other on my OS have been shut down. Otherwise I can detect no other problems, I have run several anti-virus programs (Kapersky, MS Security Essentials) and have found nothing.
The PC runs, with no visable problems but I an concerned that I cant uninstall IE8 or use Internet Options in both IE and PC OS
Any Ideas, help, walk throughs would be most welcome.
Ken Tracy