TVDragon wrote:Chris wrote:TVDragon wrote:Indeed -- can't think of any reason why you would want Explorer back.
Because it does the job, doesn't take a fucking age to start up and doesn't have all sorts of bizarre anomalies associated with its operation such as disappearing bookmarks etc.
There's 3 reasons.
Well on my pc it loads in no more than 4 seconds -- perhaps it's because it's nowhere near full.
Never had disappearing anything -- indeed I've never had appearing anything either, such as the attacks I somehow got with IE.
Surely there's nothing stopping you opening more than one window -- tabs aren't compulsory.
For me, at least 15 - 20 seconds - this is on my new computer. Old one, give it a minute or so.
Unfortunately the majority I've seen people experiencing problems with IE (and I'm not saying this is in your case) are either due to the fact that they click "yes" or accept everything that pops up on screen and don't bother to read before installing, and so end up with this shite on their computer that they don't know how to get rid of.
Lack of reading again is another major factor in people getting adware/spyware/shite on their systems - I really do despair at those that have installed Messenger Plus with the adware program (there is an option not to install it and it is clearly marked in the installer) and winge about the fact that they now have this strange bar appear in IE, the fact that their search page has changed and that they keep getting tons of crappy popups. Message to those types of people: fucking read you twats before proceeding.
The final factor, and usually tied in with the above is that they haven't bothered to tie down their security settings in IE or bothered to patch their machines, so 'hackers' and purveyors of shiteware take advantage of them to install stuff onto people's machines. Again, there is the thing that people or their kids have visited porn/crack/lyrics/free mp3 sites and got this crap on their system and, well, deny all knowledge of it to try and make it look as if it happened "automatically".
I apologise if it sounds like I've got on my soapbox there, but I've seen it far too many times on various forums, IE user has a problem, and some Firefox "Jehovah's Witness" jumps it with his spiel about Firefox and tells them to get it ditch IE blah blah blah etc.
The thing they say in charity adverts in true to some extent - you can tell people how to use a computer properly and what is what, or you can ignore the problem in hand and work your way around it and tell them to use something else, much like you can give a handout of food to somebody in the third world that will tide them over, or you can give them seeds and tools and tell them to be self sufficient and teach them how to use them properly.
Whether you like it or not, IE is a core part of Windows as quite a few programs rely on it to some extent.
