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IE 8
First, let me say I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I can get around my computer a little. I have XP Home with IE 7. I decided to go to IE 8. After download I read "install on a test computer as IE 8 is at this point unstable"! Right out of the box I noticed my favorites as well as everything else was missing because there was no toolbar. Also, a couple of sites I frequent were not compatable with IE 8, so I decided to uninstall. This was really a chore because, from the MS web page, "fix it for me" didn'! After trying several times in add/remove I finally got it out. Now when restart was complete, I was back to 7, but still no toolbar.
I WANT MY FAVORITES BACK, PLEASE! I can't even put this post in my favorites.
If I reinstall IE 7 from MS website, will my stuff come back?:emotion-7:
Anyone? .
Thanks,
John
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Posted May 8th, 2009 06:00
Thanks, but when I tried to redownload IE 7 from MS, hopefully to correct the problem, it would not download. I clicked "start download" several times and waited several minutes and nothing.
There seems to still be compatability problems with IE 8, so I was going to wait awhile before downloading it, but IE7 won't work for me at this time. Your advise?
Thanks,
John
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Posted May 8th, 2009 07:00
What "incompatibilities" are you referring to in I.E. 8? I V8 installed on all my PC's and I haven't run into any compatibility problems with any sites. However, there is also a "compatibility" mode within I.E.8 if it is needed for a site that is set up for an older browser. In fact I.E.8 more closely complies with browser standards than all previous versions.
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Posted May 14th, 2009 20:00
Okay, I finally loaded IE8 and have my toolbar again. However, my address bar doesn't show history like with IE7. I know it is located to the far left under the star, but would perfer it to be like it was before IE8. Can I change it ?
John :emotion-15:
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Posted May 23rd, 2009 14:00
vista automatically updated my internet explorer to 8 and now websites i used to go onto just give me a blank screen even in compatability mode
is this normal
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Posted May 8th, 2009 04:00
When you installed I.E.8 (which is the final release or current version, it's no longer Beta or test) all you had to do was click on "Tools" and you could have enabled the Tool bars and Explorer Bars and got back what you had on I.E.7. (You can do the same thing in I.E.7).