Hi, Michelle
Awsome...that was the trick. As soon as I opened the favorites.html I
changed the default page to google and it works fine.
Thanks to Everyone!
Charles
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles E. James, P/A II IST/Student Information Systems U. C. Berkeley California 510-642-8440 ----------------------------------------- "Peace of mind means the ability to be organized inwardly; it means inner tranquility in the midst of confusion, difficulty, conflict, or opposition. Use only positive words when talking to others and when talking to yourself. ----------------------------------------- Michelle Bautista wrote: > I had the same exact problem with a client's IE running on 10.3.8. It > wouldn't open in any account on the system. I ended up going to the > ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/ and opening Favorites.html with IE to > get it to open and to change the default page from msn to something > else like yahoo. That allowed IE to work, which some of my users > still need for particular sites. > > Microsoft did announce on its site that it has ended support for it as > of 12/31/05 and will take all downloads of IE for Mac off of its site > by the end of the month 1/31/06. So, anyone with a need for IE for > Mac may want to burn a copy of the installer before the end of the month. > > -Michelle > > > ===== > > Michelle Bautista > > mbautista@berkeley.edu <mailto:mbautista@berkeley.edu> > > desk 510-643-0657 > > Departmental Online Computing Support (DOCS) > > UC Berkeley > > > On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Greg Merritt wrote: > >> >> Changing my IE 5.2 preferences within the app and searching my home >> folder for files changed today suggests that IE looks to >> com.apple.internetconfig.plist for its prefs. Some googling gives >> some supporting evidence: >> >> ''Internet Explorer continues to store all of its preferences via >> Apple's InternetConfig APIs. The Mac OS stores all of these >> preferences in a file named com.apple.internetconfig.plist which is >> stored in the user's home directory at the following path: >> <~/Library/Preferences/>.'' >> >> Do try first logging in as another user, to save yourself the >> trouble... if the app itself is somehow hosed, you can avoid wasting >> time playing with the prefs. >> >> Good luck! ...and do you really need to use IE? :) >> >> -Greg >> >> On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Charles E. James wrote: >> >> >>> Thanks Greg, no settings in the location you provided? >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> -- >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: >> >> For information about MAGNet, its meetings and events, and its >> mailing list, including information on subscribing and unsubscribing, >> see the MAGNet Web site at <http://magnet.berkeley.edu/>. >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: For information about MAGNet, its meetings and events, and its mailing list, including information on subscribing and unsubscribing, see the MAGNet Web site at <http://magnet.berkeley.edu/>.Received on Thu Jan 26 13:06:22 2006
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