IE7 full release - Page 7

jrhnewark · 31-10-2006, 13:44

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Originally Posted by nffc

Loads fine here - via a Belkin! Take it you've checked her PC for all the usual suspects... though quite why she'd want to look at pr0n when she has a BF

Well, given what she used this laptop for the other night... (Thank God she's never heard of Cable Forum

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I've checked it completely. In fact, it's a brand new PC, so the XP installation's still fresh. I'm going to have to do some serious sorting of it soon - there's obviously a serious problem with it somewhere, and I'm convinced it's this sodding router. Time to plug the ADSL modem back in soon, methinks, and see if it makes any difference.

(Sadly, she lives in South East London, and I'm not going to be down there for another week and a half. And I daren't ask her to try and troubleshoot.

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nffc · 31-10-2006, 13:48

No chance of remote desktop then? :S

jrhnewark · 31-10-2006, 13:56

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Originally Posted by nffc

No chance of remote desktop then? :S

Mmm, good point. I think I'll remote desktop to install RealVNC and then I can fix things while she's out. Muhahah.

Chrysalis · 01-11-2006, 06:58

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Originally Posted by jrhnewark

What a load of crap IE7 is.

I made the grave mistake on putting it on my girlfriend's PC a few days ago. She hates the UI and half the websites she wants don't load (including my site, http://jrh.holmemoss.co.uk).

IE7 thinks there's some terrible connection error on that site and loads of others. Any ideas?

I can't believe how MS are just giving the game to Mozilla.

the ui change is going to bite them in the backside, what you said is what I expected.

AndrewJ · 01-11-2006, 08:31

I had to remove IE7 due to it's terrible cpu overusage on bootup on my computer.

jrhnewark · 01-11-2006, 09:38

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Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion

I had to remove IE7 due to it's terrible cpu overusage on bootup on my computer.

Have you managed to go back to IE6? I'm not sure if that's possible, but I'd like to do it.

Chrysalis · 01-11-2006, 12:51

is it in add/remove programs?

Paul K · 01-11-2006, 19:37

IE was hitting your CPU on boot up?
And yes it should be in add/remove listed as Windows Internet Explorer or you can try system restore.

Chrysalis · 02-11-2006, 04:39

could have been svchost.exe auto update service, micorsoft update has a nasty bug.

Paul K · 02-11-2006, 06:18

There is a way of checking what is using SVCHost.exe from a cmd prompt, might help people figure out what service is stuffing SVC up.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056

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To view the list of services that are running in Svchost: 1. Click Start on the Windows taskbar, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type CMD, and then press ENTER.
3. Type Tasklist /SVC, and then press ENTER.
Tasklist displays a list of active processes. The /SVC switch shows the list of active services in each process. For more information about a process, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
Tasklist /FI "PID eq processID" (with the quotation marks)

You can download tasklist from here and drop it in your windows folder for future use if you have XP home as it only comes in Pro.

Chrysalis · 02-11-2006, 07:49

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,

greencreeper · 02-11-2006, 18:45

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.

Web-Junkie · 02-11-2006, 20:53

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

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,

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!

Chrysalis · 03-11-2006, 12:43

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.

mcmanic · 03-11-2006, 20:53

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,