From: Chris Robinson 

No, but I just took a look at it and it appears to be more to get rid of
the "a previous installation has pending work" error.  Whilst I
did get this error, it went away after a reboot and I succesfully installed
IE.

Chris.

"Geo." wrote:

> http://www.nthelp.com/50/aprevious.htm
>
> did you try that yet?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> news:3E436FEF.D8AF5AA0{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > All,
> >
> > A while ago I detailed some problems I was having with Windows 2000 and
> > the Task Scheduler Service being unable to start.  I've since tried a
> > re-install of Internet Explorer but this doesn't appear to have cured
> > the problem.  However, I found that when I came to install Internet
> > Explorer it said that there was another install of IE that hadn't
> > finished properly and was pending a reboot - perhaps a corrupt install
> > of IE has occured?
> >
> > I know that in the 2k/XP install of IE you get no options to save the
> > full install or to cutomise it.  I found some info on Microsoft's site
> > about command line parameters that can be used to download the full IE6
> > package so I did this and ran the install again - still no luck.  This
> > said, I was hoping I could configure the install (after I'd downloaded
> > the full package) to ensure it's installing the offline browsing pack
> > (the part of IE that updates the task scheduler) but I can't tell if
> > it's doing this or not.  Is it possible that Win2k thinks everything's
> > OK and only installs a set of default components?
> >
> > Chris.
> >

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