Internet Explorer 5.x install guide
When Microsoft revved Internet Explorer to version 5.01 for Windows 2000, the company embarked on what was to become the first of many IE 5.x updates. I'm sure they didn't mean it to happen this way, but each version of IE has been considerably buggier, as well as more powerful, then the version it replaced. With Windows 2000 complete, the company embarked on what was to become two separate product updates, IE 5.01 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a collection of bug fixes for IE 5.01; and IE 5.5, a semi-major update that would add a slew of new developer features designed at making it even easier to integrate the Web into Windows. Strategically, Microsoft would make IE 5.5 part of Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), the last revision of Windows 98, but the product is really designed as a stepping-stone between the Win32 past and the .NET, Web-enabled future. For consumers, however, IE 5.5 is rather confusing, as it offers only a single new end-user feature (Print Preview). And for Windows 2000 users, IE 5.5 is particularly confusing, because of an odd limitation that prevents it from updating certain components on such systems.
And that's where this install guide comes in. For Windows 9x and NT 4.0 users, upgrading IE is straightforward: Simply grab the latest version off the Web and install. At the time of this writing, that's IE 5.5. But Microsoft has made things decidedly more complicated than that for Windows 2000 users, as there have been three major updates released since Windows 2000 that can update IE components. And if you don't install them in the right order, you might not be able to upgrade all of your IE-related functionality until IE 6.0.
Well, we wouldn't want that to happen, now would we? In the interests of saving you a lot of grief, let's take a look at the order in which you should install IE updates on Windows 2000.
1. Security fixes and compatibility updates
Before doing anything else, head over to Windows Update and basically install everything besides Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 1 and Tools and Internet Explorer 5.5 and Toolls. This will require several reboots and some items will need to be installed independently. When Windows 2000 was first made available, there weren't many updates on Windows Update, but the site is finally starting to fill up. Make sure your system is up-to-date before you do anything else.
2. Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 and Tools
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