Everything works fine: iTunes, Quicktime, PDF-View and a few other apps. Furthermore, two months ago I re-installed the OS. I’m using Secunia PSI to assist me with the complex, updating system. While you can’t know what’s on our computers, I am up-to-date with all the patches, security and otherwise. I do understand what you mean, but your sentiment is kinda harsh. Why does MS keep putting out the same thing over and over again? Hopefully, with IE9, they leave all the other versions of IE Hate locked in a room and really redesign its browser.
Today, I removed IE8 and things are back to normal. I was “trying” to use IE8 without activating any of the new features. I got the same effect – nothing showed up. I did notice that it said “Done” in the lower left. Everything was good for a while, but then I noticed FF3 would open, but no images (or any other thing) would show. (Dell, XP Professional, SP3, Avira ’09.) After reading Brian’s post titled “Microsoft Pushing Out IE8 Through Auto Update,” I installed IE8.
I merely update it because I can’t remove it from the system. I haven’t used IE Hate since Firefox came out. I was just getting ready to add these to a previous column by Brian, but the comments are closed. Next: PostPoints tip: expiration dates for (some) e-mail
Previous: RIM's BlackBerry App World Eases Adding Smartphone Software If you don't like that risk, you need to use a different operating system." This is the chance you must take running Windows, an aging operating system that can get pretty fragile in daily use. If you have kept yours in proper working order, you should be fine too. "I tried this update on computers, none that I knew to have any existing software problems, and saw no issues with it. Maybe the "endorsement" I should deliver for these updates goes something like this: So I suppose these e-mail exchanges will continue. I'm not going to tell people to stick with obsolete and unsafe software that involves plenty of risk of its own. It is: I've seen the same pattern happen with earlier Microsoft updates, such as Service Packs 2 and 3 for Windows XP and Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista.īut I can't tell people to avoid these updates, not when they often bring considerable improvements in security and capability (and, let me state yet again, they work fine in my experience). But most of the time, I could only shrug and think "well, Windows is like that sometimes." Only in a few cases could I even guess what might have gone wrong - in one instance, for example, the reader might have been using an old version of Symantec's Internet-security software, and in another the reader's aging MSN Premium dial-up software could be at fault. I was getting pretty desperate at this point - it was now 3.00 am in the morning. I restarted from last known configuration - nothing happened. I restarted form a previous restore point - nothing happened. I started with Safe Mode and Command Prompt - nothing happened. I started in Safe Mode - nothing happened. I saw the Windows Vista strip bar for a few moments then everything went dead, the screen went black and I heard the hard disc stop spinning. I installed IE8 and as suggested restarted my computer. Needless to say this was a nerve wracker and anyone recommending using IE 8 at this stage is doing a great disservice. Fortunately I was able to do a system restoration from a day back.
with all due respect, Rob, I downloaded IE 8 today before reading your article and it took all the items on my desktop and put them in the trashcan where they could NOT be restored to the desktop. You can guess what came next: A stream of irate e-mails from readers, complaining that IE 8 had hosed their computers in various ways: Re: your "Help" comment on IE8, after I installed it, my entire computer slowed down big time. But so far, I haven't seen or heard of major compatibility issues with this version.
I also hadn't run into any glitches installing it on numerous machines, including when I put in on my desktop at work: Any Internet Explorer install involves non-trivial changes to Windows and, therefore, involves some risk. I wrote yes, noting that for all the defects I'd critiqued in my review of IE 8, it was clearly better than IE 7. In that piece, I had tried to answer a simple question - now that Microsoft is pushing out its Internet Explorer 8 browser as an automatic update to Windows, is it safe to let that installation proceed? I spent about an hour Friday afternoon answering reader e-mail about a 76-word item in the previous Sunday's Help File column.