Anyone using IE8?

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 06 Apr 2009, 02:36

I downloaded it and I'm having nothing but problems. Half of my webpages wont' open and I get errors on the others. I followed all the things MS said to do but I still can't get it to work.
So I looked up how to go back to IE7. Followed all those instructions and NOTHING, zip, zilch, nada.
I even did a system restore to 5 days ago..I installed IE8 Sunday....nothing.

So I'm using Firefox till I get this thing figured out.

Wife is pretty mad at me right now.

And techies out there got any help for a brotha...??

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 06 Apr 2009, 02:40

Any reason you're getting away from Mozilla?

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 06 Apr 2009, 02:52

I never really used Firefox until now. I used Opera, the wife used IE and I kept FF as a back-up. Although I could only use FF to download files at Simviation...LOL.

I don't mind using FF but getting the Mrs. to change is the real chore here.

btaylo24 · Post by **btaylo24** » 06 Apr 2009, 03:25

I use Google Chrome and love it. Couple of sites dont support it, buts its stable and function rich

barry

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 06 Apr 2009, 03:54

Make the permanent switch to something, no anything, other than any version of Internet Explorer. I switched to FF a couple years ago and have never looked back, you can always keep IE on file for those times when that's the only browser that will work.

ricktk · Post by **ricktk** » 06 Apr 2009, 04:00

Operating IE8 with Vista - no problems so far. Been up and running for about 4 days.

Blank Fang · Post by **Blank Fang** » 06 Apr 2009, 06:08

Using IE8 on XP SP2 for a forthnight now, without any difficulties at all.
Some sites, such as AIG, require viewing in compatibility mode due to minor display issues but otherwise I am really happy with it.
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Willy

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » 06 Apr 2009, 06:40

For about 3 years now my main browser has been FF, the only time I use IE7 is for M$ updates. Fortunately, M$ haven't made IE8 compulsory yet.

Ford Friendly · Post by **Ford Friendly** » 06 Apr 2009, 10:48

I've been running IE8 since it was in beta with no problems.
For all the complaining people do about MS, IE, whatever, I've never had anything but success with IE regardless of version.

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 06 Apr 2009, 13:14

I've used IE since I've had computers. Never had a problem with any version until now.
I've tried running in compatability mode too..still no joy.
I can't even uninstall it now....

Ford Friendly · Post by **Ford Friendly** » 06 Apr 2009, 13:32

I assume you've re-downloaded and reinstalled it?
Obviously, you'd need to have another browser already installed to do this.

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » 06 Apr 2009, 14:58

Ford, you are lucky my friend.
I still have a problem with IE7 on two PCs, and its blooming annoying. Using the official IE7 upgrade, and despite de-installing/re-installing, and even rebuilding I still get two windows opening on its startup.
I believe its to do with the Microsoft Update activex proggy in conjunction with something else, I solved it on 3 puters by removing Intellimouse before running the upgrade.

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 06 Apr 2009, 17:51

Ford Friendly wrote:I assume you've re-downloaded and reinstalled it?
Obviously, you'd need to have another browser already installed to do this.

Roger that....

petebramley · Post by **petebramley** » 06 Apr 2009, 18:18

Thanks for the warnings guys

Think I will stay with FF Its always been fine for me and as Steve said above I'll only use IE for M$ updates

Pete

Ford Friendly · Post by **Ford Friendly** » 07 Apr 2009, 00:58

KevinJarvis wrote:
Ford Friendly wrote:I assume you've re-downloaded and reinstalled it?
Obviously, you'd need to have another browser already installed to do this.
Roger that....

Well, if you "have the guts" and still want to try to roll back to IE7, then you could try something relatively radical - since IE8 doesn't seem to want to uninstall properly - manual deletion and registry editing.

Regardless of whether you use XP or Vista, IE can be manually deleted just like any other program. But you have to REALLY delete all entries about it from/within the registry, not just get rid of the folders. I've done it once (on someone else's machine) and, while a bitch because it was time-consuming, I was successful.

Remember to reboot immediately after both deleting the folders (first) and modifying the registry (second). THEN you should be able to reinstall IE7 (or IE8 ) by running the standalone executable.

Microsoft.com still has both standalone executables for IE7 and IE6 available for download. Easy to find using their search tool.

Good luck.

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 07 Apr 2009, 06:42

I tried reinstalling IE7 after finally finding it online. It won't install b/c traces of IE8 are still loaded.

I'm not ambitious our confindent enough enough to edit the registry either...

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » 07 Apr 2009, 10:28

Well Kev,
If you have your XP install disk you could try doing an XP repair. This basically leaves all your proggies alone and reg entries but wipes off and reloads XP from your CD.

It will mean that all the MS updates since the version of your CD will need to be applied again but it will take you back to IE6, initially, and IE7 will be one of the updates.

If you have never done this before there is nothing to worry about, but be careful, don't use the initial recovery option but go into install you will come to a place where it asks you to choose your installation place or press 'R' to repair. It will look like its doing a complete install but its not.

If you have any concerns about the procedure you can always check here first.

Ford Friendly · Post by **Ford Friendly** » 07 Apr 2009, 10:33

Unfortunately, editing the registry seems likely to be your only solution - whether you want to get IE7 or IE8 back up and running.

Using regedit.exe, the Registry Editor, is only "difficult" because most people lack familiarity and confidence with it. It can be dangerous IF someone is careless about deleting things. But it's fairly straight-forward.

Seriously, the key to using it is to go slowly,
...expand one thing/entry in the left-hand window pane or regedit at a time,
...look for an Internet Explorer entry
...delete the Interent Explorer entry in its entirety
...............(highlight it and hit the delete key)
...and then repeat for every other area in the left pane of Regedit.

Note: The Internet Explorer entries I found in a cursory search on my Vista machine were under Software "directories" (probably not the correct term, but that's how I "see"/what I call them) in both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE areas.
...The left pane of REGEDIT should look sort of like this whether you're using Vista or XP:
...........+ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
..............+SOFTWARE
...................+MICROSOFT
......................+Internet Explorer
(The plus sign means it's expandable. But you actually want to delete the ENTIRE Internet Explorer entry.)

WARNING: There is no "SAVE" function with REGEDIT. Once you do something, it's done for the most part. You have to reboot for the effect of deleting "to be seen", but an entry's "gone" once you hit the delete key.

IF you delete only Internet Explorer entries, you should be no worse off than you are now at worst. At best, you might be able to reinstall Internet Explorer.

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » 11 Apr 2009, 18:46

Guys, put on your tin hats and take cover, they are coming for you

.http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/04/1 ... ie6-or-ie7

In all seriousness what this means is that if you really don't want this to be done, you will have to make sure that you don't auto download and install updates.
Before anybody says anything I am not suggesting switching updates off but you can select notify instead and then deselect the one you don't want.

Ford Friendly · Post by **Ford Friendly** » 11 Apr 2009, 19:12

Nice headsup for those who don't want to update.

At the bottom of that article is a link to an IE Blocker Toolkit which solves the problem for those who do not want the update.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

And there it is again, straight from the MS site.

Doesn't sound like much of a problem to install and the block will not expire according to the writeup.