IE8/7 crash - Caused WinXP to corrupt

[Capt.Propwash]

UGH my life is hell right now.......

[Capt.Propwash]

Update:::::

And what a relief!!!!  I just went in to my E:/Microsoft Games/FS9 and went to the FS9 Icon and double clicked it.... IT WORKS!! I never had to uninstall / reinstall it !!



I just checked REGEDIT, and low-and-behold ... there it is. It wrote its own Registry File without having to Reinstall it!!!! THANK YOU GOD!!!

[NickN]

Thats what you get for installing what they consider a RC (release client version) product which has not been released as a full update on Windows Update


there are a list of bugs and issues they are still working on with XP and other OS's

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/dd441788.aspx

It is actually faster however they still need to work out the last few bugs it has.. which is why they released it the way they did.. to let people use and scream about it so they can fix those last few bugs before officially posting it at Windows Update

LOL

[Capt.Propwash]

thats just it, i did get it from MICROSOFT.   I opened IE7 to come here to check some posts, and the page said ALL NEW INTERNET EXPLORER 8 NOW AVAILABLE (or something close to that effect) GET IT FROM MICROSOFT (weblink here)

so I downloaded it, and tried to install it, but it corrupted my IE 7.  tried to Uninstall IE7 cause i had saved the IE7-SETUP.EXE to C:/ ..... no go... that corrupted WINXP.  ::) so i had to reformat C:/ to reinstall Windows to get IE5 back so that I can go back through and reinstall 8; XP SP3; and every other thing that I downloaded / bought in the last 2 years.


The 1 good thing..... FS9 wrote its own Registry Key and I did not have to reinstall IT; but I will have to reinstall FSX.  No big deal, I fly 2004 more than I do X cause my laptop can only handle X on bare-bones minimums... I dont even see airport buildings, just the runways and a couple trees.  oh well. 8-)

[JBaymore]

It is actually faster however they still need to work out the last few bugs it has.. which is why they released it the way they did.. to let people use and scream about it so they can fix those last few bugs before officially posting it at Windows Update

LOL

How to hire a large cheap Beta testing team, huh?    ;D  ;D

best,

..................john

[SubZer0]

And here I was thinking it was the final release version... I was wondering why it wasn't on windows update yet....

[Capt.Propwash]

here is the link for it.... FROM MICROSOFT!!!!

INTERNET EXPLORER 8..... FOR WINXP
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/intern ... ee32ac3e1d



This was the website that first opened telling me that IE 8 is available.  I downloaded it, and went to install it, and it corrupted IE7. Tried to uninstall IE7... and corrupted my WINXP.  

But after installing WinXP, im downloading XP (SP3) right this second to get it back to where it was before the corruption, and i still have to look for a few more files.  1 of which being MSXML 4.0 so that I can run CRAPPY FSX.

[homebrewer]

After reading all of that, I am ever so glad I did not install IE8 per the recommendation of my computer guru. He loves it. I am a Firefox fanboy and will stay one...

[djt]

After reading all of that, I am ever so glad I did not install IE8 per the recommendation of my computer guru. He loves it. I am a Firefox fanboy and will stay one...

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