What exactly do you mean by "no IE"?

Have you recently installed SP 3? What version of IE did you have on your computer when you installed SP 3? Did you get IE 8 from microsoft's website?

Thank you for your attention. Taking your input as two questions,here are my findings:
Q1. DAP is ticked against (turn on DAP for all programs and services except those I select) Internet Explorer. Not ticked (run a DLL as an app)
Q2. Internet Explorer does not run up far enough for me to click TOOLS

Q1 - okay, that should work.
Q2 - ??

Still waiting on rest of the answers.

Originally Posted by townsbg

Have you recently installed SP 3? What version of IE did you have on your computer when you installed SP 3? Did you get IE 8 from microsoft's website?

I installed SP3 when it was issued on the Automatic Update. I did have IE 7 when it was installed. I installed IE 8 from tha Microsoft website, and have just removed it.

Originally Posted by broni

What exactly do you mean by "no IE"?

It starts to run up and then it is stopped with the DAP message.

Did you restart computer after making DEP exception for IE?
If so...
Why don't you turn DEP off altogether, and see how it goes?

What security programs (AV, firewall) do you have?

Have you tried running DEP for essential programs and services only? You should be able to access IE's configuration options through control panel without running IE. Control panel --> internet options.

Why don't you try re-installing it through the direct download of either 7 or 8. I would start with 7.

Originally Posted by broni

Did you restart computer after making DEP exception for IE?
If so...
Why don't you turn DEP off altogether, and see how it goes?

What security programs (AV, firewall) do you have?

I did restart computer after making DEP exception for IE
It is not apparent how to turn off DEP altogether.
My security system is TREND
The Internet Options has disappeared from Control Panel