Problems with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

guest; good answer! perry

And how does this help me?

i allready have firefox on my linux live CD

Firefox works with Windows XP. That's what I use.

I still have Internet Explorer but don't use it for internet browsing. I didn't uninstall IE because I'm afraid that MS will disable everything else.

regards,

Vulcan

But i cannot use internet because IE7 locks up, So if firefox is so swell i still cannot download it, because IE7 locks up ad infinitum

Okay, I'm missing something here.

How are you getting on the internet now? If you're using another machine (rented, borrowed, whatever), go to the firefox website and download the installer to a flashdisk. Take the flashdisk and install it on your XP PC.

regards,

Vulcan

I am using the Desktop at the office and cannot download (is not allowed) anything to a USB device, so i have to solve the problem of my Laptop at home

Ah, that's a dilemma all right.

Can you enlist someone's help? Use their PC for a few minutes?

I can't offer much in solving your problems with IE7 since I have no experience with your situation. All I can offer is help with trying to install firefox. If you can't get it from your office, try to get it from someone who has internet access. Or, if they have an installer in their PC, you can just copy it.

Vulcan

Installing Foxfire will only go around the problem, Did you reboot into Safe Zone and then reinstall your XP.

Mike

Nope i just removed Internet Explorer 7 and then Internet Explorer 6 magically reappeared!

Personally, if I were in your situation, I would install the Ubuntu software on the laptop and forget about Windows. I have 2 laptops and 2 desktop computers; one laptop and one desktop has Ubuntu the other set has Windows XP. I find very little difference between using Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows XP other than the cost to purchase. One suggestion though, as with any software there is a learning curve, so you should pick up a couple of good reference books for the Ubuntu release you have.

dangerous! DO NOT REMOVE IE. PC will killed!!!

FireFox rox!!!

Put A/V disc in drive and reboot to Safe Mode and run A/V scan, reboot. If trouble persists, delete IE7 in program file, put XP disc in drive and reboot, repair install or open disc and reload IE6. Be circumspect and update incrementally.

Keep posted

What is an A/v disc? i have no XP disc, i recovered it XP via internet, some kind of TOSHIBA dynabook system

anti-virus disc but if you no have then shoot the moon...

I have Avira on my PC and i scanned it no Viruses.

The problem is IE7 which locks up, gives a white screen were normally the internet site would be an makes the resource go up to 99% whenever i enter a URL.

i am just going to re-install XP and make sure that i do not install IE7 but use only IE6 (or firefox after i can use IE6)

I'd suggest trying to boot XP in "Safe Mode". When booting, after you see the BIOS screen display all of your peripherals (CD-ROM, memory, HDD, etc.) hit the F8 key when windows is loading. This should get you to an options menu. Select "Safe Mode With Networking"; this should load a "working" boot of XP onto your machine. From there you "should" be able to run Internet "Exploder". If you can run IE7 at this point, I would strongly recommend downloading the installation of Firefox to an accessible location on your hard drive, such as "C:\Temp\", not "C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name". Then reboot as normal, then install Firefox. Hope this helps!

Or maybe, boot into safe mode and run chkdsk to take care of the file system. The computer may still be suffering a hangover from that crash.

It was working fine after reinstaling only when IE7 got installed the problem with IE7 happened

I've never installed IE7 directly always installed IE6 then IE7 and IE7 is so very convenient give another try

When i used my "refreshed" computer it had IE6 on it then Windows update decided to install IE7 since then i cannot access the internet anymore on my home computer.

I already searched the net via other ways to find a solution but until now this has been fruitless

Use 'system restore'

#1 get rid of linux. It is a dead OS which will never return despite what all the self appointed "experts" tell you.

#2 start all over with a clean windows install. (Yeah it is a pain) Don't forget to also to to MS downloads and get the latest service pack...

#3 Install IE6

#4 Install IE7 but only from the MS website.

#5 get rid of every copy of Firefox in your house. This dog opens you up to every problem ever conceived by malware distributors. Do not listen to all the self appointed "experts" actually run a test for yourself. I did and was shocked. I opened IE7 and went to several of "those" web sites figuring that I was likely to pick up all kinds of nasty infections. I kept a careful list of sites visited etc. Then sacnned with adaware and spybot. I found 4 nasties. Then I repeated (same sites, same girls etc)using Firefox and found over 200 nasties. Get rid of that crap.

What an unbelievable combination of mostly irrelevant and bad advice.

#1 Linux and Windows may both be available for boot, but unless Epke has both operating systems active on the machine at the same time there is no possibility of conflict.

#2 Unfortunately, if you want to run XP you will need a clean install. I find I need to do this about every six months, or it slows down, and I need to back my configurations up to an external disc each time to be certain of recovery. (I'm mystified as to how guest proposes to download the service pack updates without first installing a browser?)

#3&4 Personally, I wouldn't bother with Explorer unless you are specially concerned to see how semi-amateur websites were intended to look*. (Explorer can reasonably be installed if you have installed Windows in "Safe" mode - and I have done this so that I can see how my websites look in IE). If you don't need IE, I recommend that you download Firefox or Chrome onto your hard drive using your Linux live, and then reboot in Windows and install it.

*The problem being that such sites are built around IE only, and IE does not exactly conform to the agreed standards

#5 Either Explorer or Firefox can be set up to be susceptible to picking up malware and/or adware. I wouldn't go onto those sites anyway (only because I prefer my girly at first hand). However, I'd say that the number of "nasties" is pretty irrelevant - most of them will be adware that you can set Firefox to delete at the end of a session (and IE does by default). What is important is what the nasties are doing during the session (you won't see this with guest's method), and how many of the "nasties" that stay behind are genuinely nasty. My observation is that the nasties left on IE are likely to be the ones that are truly damaging, and because people like attacking IE the worst ones are more likely to become active in IE than in Firefox.

#6 If you haven't already, for goodness sakes buy yourself a decent anti-malware package. My machines run variously Norton, Kaspersky and AVG. At the moment Kaspersky seems to have the lowest effect on performance, but this both changes from time to time and also depends on the types of software you are running.

#7 Experience: my group runs three flavours of Linux, NT (legacy systems) and XP. Mostly we prefer Linux (the three versions are for desktops, server, and stripped-down firewall respectively); however, we have some critical software that was developed under XP and XP has a significant speed advantage for that particular case.

Perhaps I missed something, but are you actually able to do anything with your machine with IE started - even if your system does go to 100%. While you might not be able to do anything with IE, you might be able to do a tools/update windows and then download IE8 - which might solve the issue. Outside of that, the only thing that you can do would be to wipe your hard disk and reinstall everything - pain in the butt, but you will be surprised at how much faster your computer will be after the process.

Good Luck

Robert

how you say get rid of linux? this is bad answer!!!

I was Wondering when Windows Vs other OS fans would start to argue

And as Bwire might attest i am not the biggest windows fan (we had our words before)

But my hard-disk is not very big so my Linux laptop will be my next new (secondhand)PC

Sorry for the misunderstanding but only IE7 was the problem not windows itself.

Anyway i searched the net again IE6 returns when you remove IE7 from your system.

after that i could use Internet again. thanks for all the help.

format,lol

and get rid of linux

Nope, i do not throw away something that is free and works for something that is not free and sometimes works

Regards!

IE-8 is online.

Or try Maxthon!

Best & based on IE- System

I found it the best out of a dozen I have tried.

Use IE8 or Firefox is nicer.