updating programs

[Baz]

after the recent clean install I had to do I found some programs were out of date so have been in the process of updating them.Now,dont ask me why I did this but on getting all the needed windoze updates I noticed that Internet Explorer was just version 6.......so I tried to get V7  which is what I was using before,only when needed you understand

so I d/l it and ran the install but looking after that it still shows as version 6 

any ideas

[zappaDPJ]

Not really.

IE 7 & 8 will install and run concurrently so I would have though 6 & 7 would. Regardless you should obviously have 7 anyway. The only thing I can think of is try searching for the 7 exe to see if it did install and check add/remove programs for it as well.

[DorsetBoy]

Windoze should 1) not offer IE6 via update and 2) if IE6 is installed should offer the latest versions of IE as an update.

IE8 (and 7 if you really must use old browsers) can be found here >> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/internet-explorer/download-ie.aspx

[Glenn]

One of the updates will have been KB976002 (unless deselected it installs by default), the browser choice patch http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/what-is-the-browser-choice-update

[Baz]

right got it from one of the above links thanks.the original one must have been dodgy