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the windows update bug is known and fixed by WindowsXP-KB916089-v5-x86-ENU.exe but they never made this hotfix public and wont roll it out en masse,

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I've installed it at work, at the request of management. It's not exactly trend setting or ground breaking. It seems too bright - tis weird. I've disabled all the security features and made it look more like Internet Explorer. Seems fine at the moment - no major issues.

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I don't think it is fixed! I have that update installed and my CPU usage still hits 100% when doing a windows update. Have msi.dll v3.1.4000.2805 so it's the correct update, but not fixed the CPU issue for me!

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you right, I was been generous to them. :)

The hotfix didnt fix it for me either.

The scary thing is googling the problem the misinformation been spread is unreal, 99% of people blame it on spyware.

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installed, running ok on my Media center Edition 2005, 1st thing i did was disabled the annoying tabbing system and the phishing scanning system as it slowed down some sites to a crawl,

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Microsoft are now trying to force you to upgrade to IE 7 by sending it as a "Priority Update" on Windows Update. So if you have that set to update automatically you might find yourself with IE7 whether you want it or not. I nearly got caught out by it tonight.

I think that sucks TBH. I don't want it, I'm quite happy with IE6 so why trick me into installing IE7? It certainly seems to have its fair share of problems and as far as I'm concerned version 6 is OK. That ain't broke so I don't want to fix it.

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IE7 isnt complete rubbish but the things wrong with it are the kind of stuff you would have expected to be fixed during beta testing and it appears a very rushed out release.

Another problem is the way msn reacts with IE7, windows live messenger a program written by microsoft doesnt respect IE7 settings, IE7 set to open new links in new tab from external programs, works for every single program except messenger where that opens a new window instead. I find it very hard to believe that wouldnt have been reported to M$ during beta testing.

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My Windows tried to auto-update to it this morning, soon stopped that.

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Mine tried it last night. I'm happy with IE6 and I just don't want IE7 and for Microsoft to try to sneak it in like this I think is underhand. When I get a new PC, fine, OK I'll have it then, but for the remaining time I have this one, I'll stick with the browser I have.

Some people seem to be having a lot of problems with version 7 and I just don't want the hassle of "fixing something that ain't broke", finding V7 doesn't work properly on my PC, trying to roll back to 6, not being a techie getting myself in a real pickle, confused etc...I don't need the aggravation.

Apple did the same thing. I couldn't connect to their music store and the way to fix it was to update to their latest version of iTunes. I was quite happy with my version and the latest one is clunky and sometimes freezes. I know technology moves on etc but I wish that when stuff works they would just leave it alone for a while!

No Mr Gates I do not want the "latest version of Windows Live Messenger"....mine works quite well at the moment (though with msn stuff just because it works today is no guarantee it will work tomorrow so I'm tempting fate), I don't want IE7 either.....no Apple I don't want the latest version of iTunes...What I want is just for stuff to work and to be left alone to enjoy them!

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Well said there mate, i was more than happy with MSN 6.2 and IE6. Most things that are updated add new things that i don't use anyway :/

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well i did put ie7 on my comp, didn't like it one bit, web pages loaded so so slow and just didn't like the look of it much, so gone back to ie6.

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wish i'd read this thread before.
anyone know where the refresh button is on the all new, all crap IE7?

---------- Post added at 17:47 ---------- Previous post was at 17:32 ----------

bluddy hell! anyone tell me if the IE6 SP1 is the right version to reinstall on XP once I've got rid of this 'orrible IE7?

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Refresh button should be a green double arrow icon at the end of the address bar.

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or to refresh you could just use F5...

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i'm sorted on refresh now cheers.... but would love to go back to IE6

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Just thought I would share my experience with IE7.
It took nearly two weeks to download it after I received the announcement from Windows Update (the download would keep timing out due to heavy load on their servers). Anyway once it downloaded I then had to wait until the following day before it decided to install itself. There were no problems with installation, but upon running IE7 for the first time it kept trying to load a page from Microsoft - runonce.aspx, which was something to do with settings. All I received was a blank blue screen and whenever I closed IE, it crashed! After searching on Google I discovered that I could disable this 'runonce' page by editing the registry, but to be honest, I wanted to actually see the page.
To cut a long story short, I have NTL Netguard and by temporarily disabling the Ad Blocking feature, the 'runonce' page loaded successfully and I was able to save the settings it offered. IE7 now works flawlessly and I am quite pleased with it.
If anyone else has such a problem, it might be worth trying what I did. Maybe other similar Ad Blocking programs could cause the same problem.

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they have disabled the auth type cache digests.

IE7 can be uninstalled using add/remove tool putting IE6 back but this made my windows buggy so it must have left behind mixed versions of dlls or something, so I reinstalled it.

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It's buggered up everything royally for me still. I've just tried installing WMP11 so that it might play WMA streams again.. whether or not that works, we'll see.

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I've been lumbered with a copy of IE7 that I don't want & will probably only use for Windows Update as I'm happy with Firefox 2.

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For all those poor souls on IE7 there is hope.

www.mozilla.com

Go Firefox and be happy!

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people please stop posting firefox firefox this is a thread on IE7 not for firefox fans to sell their fav browser.

Another bug I have found in IE7 which doesnt happen in IE6, if a page has ad frames, ie. skysports.com then IE7 adds it to url history so when clicking back it has to be clicked twice since the first time it simply goes to the adframe screenie below to show you what I mean.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2006/11/7.jpg

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I've noted a few more things wrong with IE7, please correct me if I've made a mistake, both in typing/usage :)

1. If a web page opened in a TAB 'hangs' or 'crashes', then it can 'hang' the whole broswer rather than that TAB or cause such a long pause before something happens that you think it's crashed! You can't just close the problematic TAB and carry on! TABs don't seem to be 'instances' that can be killed!

2. When using the 'Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer' it seems to 'freeze' the whole browser until it connects, so you can't browse until a connection is made.

3. Can't see an option to make the Search open in a new TAB, it opens it in whatever TAB you are viewing at the time, so if you forget you lose your page until you click 'back', open a new TAB and search again.

4. No Right Click 'What's This?' context help in 'Internet Options', except for the main 'OK', 'Cancel' and 'Apply' buttons, very useful that!

Still using it though! Will wait for an update to see what they fix/add!

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Another issue with IE7 the Kaspersky online scanner will not work with 'dfault' activeX controls - these are the settings you need to run it:

You will get a warning that your browser is set as unsafe, once the scan is completed reset back to what you had before

Good to see M$ has increased the activeX security :)