Internet Explorer fooked

Gavin Scott · Tue 19 Dec, 2006 17.04

I run two Windows machines side-by-side.

One is is a genuine Windows version, the other is not.

The one which isn't recently had the software updates for Media Player 11 and IE7. I allowed the update for WMP but had to roll back to version 10 as it was looking for the genuine windows authentication.

The update for IE7 at least warned me in advance that it would require authentication, so I cancelled it.

Now every time I try to hit a webpage, IE crashes. The error reporting is useless.

How can I reinstall IE6?

marksi · Tue 19 Dec, 2006 17.07

Does this help or does it want authentication too?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

Gavin Scott · Tue 19 Dec, 2006 17.08

I'll try it when I get home.

*Kisses*

Nate J · Tue 19 Dec, 2006 19.17

You dirty software pirate bastard

Anyway. Just get Opera/Firefox, if you can't get IE7, you might as well get Opera.

cdd · Wed 20 Dec, 2006 10.45

So, Gav, because you overlooked my question in the other thread:
Why do you use Internet Explorer?

Gavin Scott · Wed 20 Dec, 2006 12.01

cdd wrote:So, Gav, because you overlooked my question in the other thread:
Why do you use Internet Explorer?

Because I don't have particularly strong feelings against IE. It comes with all of the machines I use, so I just sort of use it.

To anyone (like me) who isn't fully aware of the differences between one browser and another, all this mozilla talk sometimes comes across as snobbery.

No offence to any of you tech heads who may have good cause to hate IE - I've just never felt particularly strongly about the subject.

Rob Del Monte · Wed 20 Dec, 2006 13.46

At the moment, I'm on 'Firefox', but on this computer I have IE5!

I have 6 on C.D. somewhere, but we had to re-store our desktop, so it is on its default settings, mainly.

IE5, WMP6 (the one with the '321' logo, the logo before the logo before, i do believe.), WMP in Entertainment, in Accessories, in the start menu, and IE in Internet Tools, in Accessories, in the start menu.

Links to the late tiny online, oh and the good-ol' multi-coloured MS Dos logo.

Jovis · Wed 20 Dec, 2006 17.33

How do you do all that punctuation Robert Del Monte? (I'm really mysti.fie.d now [I've observed it for a long time.].). Any-how, I've been wondering how you're getting on with your '"B.B.C. 2." "2".'. 3.D. quest in Macromedia [although I suppose its now]/Abode Fireworks?.

lukey · Wed 20 Dec, 2006 18.03

Your nested parenthesis makes me moist.

Dr Lobster* · Wed 20 Dec, 2006 19.46

i think when you compare ie6 with a default firefox, aside from the tabbed browsing there is little to tell them apart.

the real magic of firefox is in its extensions - i couldn't manage without mouse gestures and adblock now.

i think all firefox fans are trying to do is to help you discover these things.

all that said, if all you do is browse most of the day in a single window then ie pretty much does the job. when you've got lots of things going on at once (and if at work you have management systems which are web based) firefox will probably make life easier.

the other advantage with firefox is when you have these crashy problems, you know that all you need to do to fix it is either delete your profile or reinstall the browser. with the problem gavin has, there is every possibility that he will need to reinstall or recover his operating system. this is perhaps the worst argument for having these type of applications so tightly integrated with the os.

i think the security argument is moot in most cases though, with decent antivirus software most exploits get spotted and stopped before they break anything, and if you run windows logged in as a normal user, rather than an administrator it is very difficult for anything to break your machine.

nwtv2003 · Wed 20 Dec, 2006 20.16

Gavin Scott wrote:
cdd wrote:So, Gav, because you overlooked my question in the other thread:
Why do you use Internet Explorer?
Because I don't have particularly strong feelings against IE. It comes with all of the machines I use, so I just sort of use it.

To anyone (like me) who isn't fully aware of the differences between one browser and another, all this mozilla talk sometimes comes across as snobbery.

No offence to any of you tech heads who may have good cause to hate IE - I've just never felt particularly strongly about the subject.

I'm with you on that one there, I've always used IE just because it's there, in case of emergency then I would consider using Mozilla, I did use on my old school computer once or two and it was slightly faster, but I'm more of an IE person.

I've had problems with IE, but that's more because of the speed of my Computer and anything else which I've installed that doesn't mold well with it, but for some reason these problems have gone.

Plus I seem to know no-one that uses Mozilla, everyone uses IE, my old friend was obsessed with Linux, but thats a different story.