>Ed,
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>I upgraded my Win98 notebook with IE5.01 with no problems, the Win95 machine at the office the next day was the one that hosed itself.
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David, did you have IE4 and Active Desktop support loaded up on the Win95 box previously? It may be as simple as needing some of the components from IE4 - I recently found out that IE5 did not update selected shell components and load Active Desktop support, so it's possible that IE 5.01 is not a happy camper without the components from IE4. That would be particularly ugly, since I don't know of a way to add the needed components for Active Desktop to retail Win95 without IE4.

>>FWIW, I hadno problem upgrading 5.0 systems including Win98 SE, but my browser and updates were very current, and I have the beta WSH components in place already. I also run the 128 bit encryption version.