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Ah, computers. I love 'em, but they're a pain in the butt sometimes. My IE exploded last night. Yeah, I know IE is crap, but I tried switching to firefox and it doesn't work with Google Toolbar, which has all my bookmarks. So I've been sticking with IE. And now it's refusing to open all the way, but it will self replicate its non-opening window over and over. *sigh*

I did have firefox available on my computer, as well. Except, apparently that was before the Great Hard-Drive Crash of '09. Currently, my computer is barren of all internet access. My plan: I've downloaded firefox setup to my flash drive. Hopefully, I'll be able to use that to set up firefox on my laptop. Otherwise, I'll have to find the discs that came with the computer and figure out which one had IE on it and reinstall that. If neither of those things works, I'll be on the phone with Dell, figuring what's wrong with the laptop.

it continues

I've installed Firefox. I have not yet had any success uninstalling Internet Explorer. It's not listed amongst the programs I'm allowed to uninstall (I briefly thought it had taken care of itself) and when I found it in my programs files and tried to delete it, I was told I need permission and the computer wouldn't let me delete. One change I made was to click on Run as Administrator and actually opened up without any trouble, and it hasn't opened any other windows without my permission since then. *crosses fingers*