Posted on 11/21/2006 2:18:30 PM PST by BulletBobCo
Looks like Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is trying to be forced on to one's computer. My updates just converted Explorer 6 to 7.
Make sure you have updates (box) at top selected at add/remove then hunt for it. It was at the top of my microsoft updates.
Aside from some minor irritations (e.g., button placement), I like IE7.
I knew there had to be something out there to de-louse dell computers. Too bad I didn't find this a month ago.
If it is so good then why is it named so distractingly, Uhrurhu? Lo siento, Yo spika d' Engrish. I saw that word on a church bulletin. The name is not the thing.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns. NRA KMA
Took an intuitive leap and performed the download/install for IE7....
Everything was magically back to normal....
Can't help but wonder if MS provided to marginal sabotage to IE6 in order to force the issue....
I know... I know.... tin foil hats....
Easy with the flames -- this is how it happened for us on two different machines...
My first Dell, I manually removed most of the crud. Must have left fragments, because I got a bunch of errors on every reboot. So I called Dell support with the specific errors. (I do IT Supprot for a living; figured they'd have some instructions specific to Dell pc's, save me time.)
Well, ol' Vinosh, or Guru, or whoever it was, asked me questions I'd just answered several times. Then he unveiled his big solution:
Reinstall Windows XP.
Well, I'd just finished migrating my files and installing all my apps, so I said thanks, hung up, and just figured it out.
Now with the second Dell, I used the Decrapifier. Took a repeat and a couple of tweaks, but it was really sweet.
You are barmy, you know that, don't you?
Ivan
Here at work, I'm responsible for 130 PCs and 15 servers, all running Windows 2000 or 2003. I currently have... umm... four at home, running ME (Probably downgrade to 98 soon), Win2K Pro, XP Home and HP Pro, respectively. I have been running Windows since MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1, with DOS 3.3 before it. That would be since around 1988 or so.
I'm an MCSE (the kind WITH experience) and CompTIA certified.
You?
I have never had anything MS foisted on me without my express knowledge or consent.
Sure you have! You just might not have known it. They hide stuff in "critical updates", as IE7 was. They also tie stuff together so Application A won't work without Application B or O/S version C, etc. True, it isn't outright FORCE per se, but coercion and arm-twisting are what Microsoft do best.
The best feature of IE 7 is that you can remove it....
Just so. I agree. All that is left is the M$ OS. I might be too old to change to Linux/learn it. Somebody needs to do some clever code and make it - change - not so anxiety provoking.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns. KMA NRA
The operating system also uses IE 7, it's part of the user interface. Remember back during the anti-trust unbundle fight?
The advice I was given was install it - it will make your interface better with other applications, however, you don't have to use the browser.
I've held back the IE7 upgrade by selecting the option of being informed
of new updates so I can control the actual download.
Thus I'm still using IE6 (when necessary), using Firefox the rest of the time.
Behind the times or not, you should try firefox. The tabbed browser windows make waiting for page load times bearable.
So far the only problem I've had is accessing an SAP application at work. It's incompatible so I had to go to another computer to work with my personnel stuff.
Yeah, what are you waiting for?? I've had Firefox for years.
A GUI is a GUI right? Why Gnome versus KDE? I never saw that much of a difference.
Regards, Ivan
True. I've noticed that too.
Yes! Thanks folks. That worked.
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