Anybody know how to reinstall Internet Explorer and keep all your settings, buttons, bookmarks?

[DuaneBidoux]

It is all screwed up with some kind of quirk since I downloaded a program and I've got hundreds of settings that took me forever to get.

I Googled but still can't figure it out.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Don't reinstall Internet Exploder.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Here's a link for the bookmarks, but I think you're out of luck on the settings

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000524.htm

Firefox is probably a more likely candidate to allow you to do that via it's "prefs" file, but Microsoft hasn;t stolen that functionality yet (at least in I.E. 8...I'm one of the XP users shut out of versions 9 and 10).

Good luck.

[necso]

3. Looking around,

I found this:

http://www.backsettings.com/internet-explorer-backup.html

I also found feedback from people who liked the utility; but I can't vouch for it.

In the past for various programs (including IE), I found that I could copy certain files (directories) and then put them back in the right places after restore -- and that this would work to restore some stuff (details are hazy; I haven't used IE in years). At the very least I would make a copy of all the IE files (cookies, temp files, program files used to be in different places; plus, some customization could be elsewhere (other than the registry)) in another location; then comparing the copy and the restored version might help to restore some missing stuff.

Hope this helps some.

[travelingtypist]

4. System Restore is the quickest fix I know of.

You can back up to the last known date where things worked right, especially in XP.

[Lasher]

5. Yup.

Fast n easy too.

[hobbit709]

6. The best way to use IE is to never open it.

[RebelOne]

7. I know you can copy your bookmarks

and restore them. When my company (when I had a job) bought new computers, I was able to do that. As far as all the settings, I have no idea. The IT guy did that for us.

[Odin2005]

8. Dump Internet Exploder and install FireFox.