Erro in Internet Explorer

Hi,

I'm new to this Discussion forums.I've a problem in IE.
I've configured my IE and when i'm trying to connect to Internet,i get the
following error.Kindly help me in resolving the issue.

"Internet Explorer could not open the search page".

Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

Regards,
Shyam

I do not know if I am in the correct place for help so I apologise if I am.
I have a problem of getting IE to connect to any websites apart from
hotmail. Everytime I put in a web address in the address bar it just comes
back saying application not found. But it will go to websites via the search
bar on msn homepage.Then when I try to go to the home address it wont do it
it stays at whatever website adress is in the address bar and sometimes I
have an error saying something like error unable to close down and about 40
tiled IE blank web pages start up. I have now reinstalled mozilla and that
works ok( i had to download it onto my laptop and transfer it here to the pc.)
I have noticed that the icon next to a web address on the adress bar and in
my history is like a data icon and when i go into history and click on a web
address it says application not found then it lainches choose application to
open this file and when i choose IE it opens the link. I have also found that
when i go to a website to download anything such as a file from microsoft it
wont let me it says same data not found.

I have tried scf/scannow but it just kept saying please insert the correct
disc. I have xp pro with service pack 2 but it would not read it and I know
the cd rom works correctly I also have a service pack 2 disc that a friend
gave me but that also did not work. I just kept doing cancel and again it
installed some files but not all.
I have also logged on to aother user account to see if IE worked there and
it did not I also created a new user account just in case my one was corrupt
but still had the same issue with IE.
If I do system repair Im going to have same problems as I had once before
with missing files. so I do not want to try that one again.
I have even tried to install a new IE6 but it wont let me it says a previous
installation has pending work requiring a reboot. you need to restart your
computer to complete that installation before running Internet explorer set
up.
I know I could just continue to use firefox but I cannot do windows updates
if I do not have IE. I am completely at a loss what to do now so any help
would be very much appeciated
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