Re: Whats the Deal with IE8

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What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)? Were any of these applications running
in the background when you installed and/or uninstalled IE8?

Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Jeff Jewitt wrote:
> I upgraded yesterday to IE8. Went through all the right steps and such.
> During the startup or IE8 I decided to let IE8 do the default security
> settings (I think that's the phrase they used).
>
> Browser funtionality was really screwy. I had to double click favorites to
> get them to display, the go back/forward don't work correctly, pages
> weren't
> displaying, plus I had problems in non IE functions like displaying
> folders
> etc, most seem to be problems or the mouse not responding correctly.
> Also the startup items like scansnap, anti-virus, amd others wouldn't
> load.
>
> Per instructions by MS, I uninstalled IE8. When IE7 dipsplayed after 2
> attempts to start (I checked to see the IE version was 7) there were
> components of IE8 integrated with IE 7 like the browser tabs from IE8. I
> uninstalled IE 8 again and only got back to a working computer after a
> system restore.
>
> What's the deal with IE8 - is it me? Seems like it's very unstable. It
> seems
> the changes or new procedures it puts in with the security/browser
> settings
> are the issue with my problems but can't be sure.