IE 9 BOMB

[jmurray01]

Internet Explorer - My nemesis.

I use Mozilla Firefox and Opera, which both work fantastically.

IE ? Consider yourself redundant.

 

[Soundguy]

ok guys i'm gonna come clean.

masseywv has let me know, well.. I guess 3 times now that I'm a jerk for making the comments abut the typo.

I've apparently hurt his feelings. I advised him in the 1st pm to simply ignore me if my comments bothered him. that didn't sink in till after the 3rd pm just now, when I think he finally took it to heart

In any case. here's the apploogy to MWV .

sorry I made ya feel bad.

hugs n kisses. all better now?

soundguy

 

[murphy1244]

This thread is jast too moch.....:laughing:

 

[pacerron]

I'm -guessing- that if i had win7, it may not have been an issue. but i'm on xp.. so....

in any event.. all is good now that i've roleld back to 8. just need to hold out to 10 I guess. that looks about like the way my luck goes with IE versions. 6 good, 7 bad, 8 good, 9 bad... am putting my $$ on 10...

Soundguy,
You just answered, for yourself, the reason for your problem with IE-9.
It was not designed to be compatible with XP. Google IE-9 compatibility with XP. I'm surprised Windows Update would allow you to attempt the IE-9 installation.
It works fine on W-7 even with it open in 3-4 windows at the same time and each window having a dozen or more tabs open. Big improvement over Vista and IE-8, OEM installed, which hung up all the time on the same computers. Vista reminded me of the awfull old days of W-ME. Fortunately, I purchased these computers at the time when the mfg. promised to supply a W-7 disk when it was released that kept all the other programs and settings in tact.
I rather doubt if your expectation of IE-10 working on XP will be a joy either.
XP was a great program after the SP-3 update and I still use it on an old homebuilt pc from the W-98 era occasionaly. The new hardware and W-7
is easy to use, much faster, and suppossed to be more secure.
Ron

 

[Soundguy]

Soundguy,
You just answered, for yourself, the reason for your problem with IE-9.
It was not designed to be compatible with XP. Google IE-9 compatibility with XP. I'm surprised Windows Update would allow you to attempt the IE-9 installation.Ron

Let me.. heck.. it was a sugested critical update

really.

the update always has 2 sections.. important and optional.

this was in the 'important' section!!!!


well.. that does answer a few questions..

 

[Soundguy]

This thread is jast too moch.....:laughing:

truth be told, I didn't come here to stomp on MWV's feelings.

I came her to steam about ie9 and gripe about it a bit.

Most of us here, I assume are adults and can bump chests publically and then go our ways.

like scooby. he's bumping me back good. i got -NO- problem with that. respect him and his opinion.. as with everyone else here.

MWV pointed out a typo.. no biggie.. I didn't fid the humor he did after I've heard the storry umpteen dozen times.

he took offense at my response.. Not really what this thread was about... in any case..

it got harry witht e pm exchange.. and I don't think I made im' feel any better with it

i got to feeling bad though.. if he REALLY did get sore about it.. so.. the public appology. twas' the thing to do... I'm just here to read and have fun like the res o' ya.. don't wanna be a hard but to no one.... well.. ok.. maybee a few of ya...

( and no.. I didn't check for typo's.. so there' probably a few in this message! )

soundguy

 

[Scooby074]

It is the Harbor Freight of operating systems. :cool2:

Interesting.

 

[KubotainNH]

It always seems that MS gets every other piece of software to be decent whether it be browser or OS. Win me, Vista...blah. IE7 blah. XP still has a huge consumer base out there, sending an update like this blindly is crazy if it can possibly bomb on XP. How's my 78 year old FIL supposed to get by if the auto update bombs crippling his PC? Oh yeah...he calls me like he did today. Good thing I live next door. This is one of the reasons I moved to the network side away from working on PC's, I started around when the AT came out. 8086 baby...lol. Money was another player. BTW, my go to browser is Firefox with seldom an issue but IE is my backup when a website isn't setup properly to work on FF. Should I update my MCSE...nah.

 

[MossRoad]

now that's just too funny.

way funnier than a typo I make because I have a small keyboard and screen..!

Hey, I don't tell people the keyboard is small. I tell them I have big hands!

You know what they say about guys with big hands, don't you???





Big gloves!
:laughing:

 

[Arky217]

I see no one has mentioned the Maxthon browser.

I've used IE, Opera, Foxfire, Chrome and now Maxthon for the last few months.

So far, so good; I don't know if it's really any better than the others, but it's fast and has several features that I really like.

Arky

 

[Toyboy]

Hey, I don't tell people the keyboard is small. I tell them I have big hands!

You know what they say about guys with big hands, don't you???


I thought it was big feet

 

[cdaigle430]

got the lil popup that widows wanted to put ie9 thru updates on my netbook.

decided to let it do it.

what a &^%$#@! mistake that was....

after reboot, when I laoded IE.. it kept erroring out and restarting ad nauseum..

finally I did a recover/rollback to the restore point just BEFORE %^&*($# IE 9 was installed..

all better now.


I remember way back when IE 7 came out.. it was what helped kill my old desktop.. same BS....


soundguy

I don't know,
I have updated, upgraded IE 100,000 times on thousands of different systems and the only time I ever had your problem was because the system had prior issues.

 

[Soundguy]

I don't know,
I have updated, upgraded IE 100,000 times on thousands of different systems and the only time I ever had your problem was because the system had prior issues.

system was ( is now again ) running perfectly fine on ie8.. no registry issues.. no vira or worms or trojans that I know of. nice and fast...

but I think the issue has already been explained.. apparrently ie9 is not meant for xp, and thus SHOULD NOT have been reccomended as an important update.

soundguy

 

[cdaigle430]

system was ( is now again ) running perfectly fine on ie8.. no registry issues.. no vira or worms or trojans that I know of. nice and fast...

but I think the issue has already been explained.. apparrently ie9 is not meant for xp, and thus SHOULD NOT have been reccomended as an important update.

soundguy

Yep-that would do it, thats very odd that the wus site would recommend it? Hopefull Microsoft has the patch detection agent fixed.
By-the-way, the reasons XP isnt support is because it doesn't have the capabilities required to support the hardware acceleration and HTML5 features of IE9. The hardware acceleration in IE9, according to The Register, comes courtesy of DirectX 10 -- an update to the DirectX program that does not run on Windows XP unless it's been "modified."
So it may have recommended it to you if you have a modified DirectX 10 installed on your netbook.

 

[Soundguy]

couldn't tell you if I do or don't. I do keep my video drivers and bios updates courtesy of asus though.

yeah.. ie9 should probably never have been reccomended. not sure why it was. it's not like I logged onto the wus site and searched for it.. it was a pop up bubble from updater in my system tray.. deffinately a MS 'fail' issue there..

 

[cdaigle430]

If you are curious and would like to know, you can find out by clicking on your "Start" button, select "Run" and in the "Run" box type dxdiag and click on okay. It may take a minute to run but at the buttom of the system tab it will display the DireectX Version-latest for XP should be DirectX 9.0c(4.09.0000.0904).

I'm posting this because I am also curious

 

[Bird]

I see no one has mentioned the Maxthon browser.

I've used IE, Opera, Foxfire, Chrome and now Maxthon for the last few months.

So far, so good; I don't know if it's really any better than the others, but it's fast and has several features that I really like.

Arky

When I got my first internet service, and of course had no idea what I was doing, I signed up with Internet America (dialup of course) and they gave a disk to install Netscape. So for quite awhile I didn't even know other browsers existed. But when I did learn that IE existed, I changed to IE and have used it ever since. I guess Netscape still exists, but it seems you never hear of them anymore.

 

[dmccarty]

....I started around when the AT came out. 8086 baby...lol...

The AT used an 80286 chip, which at first was running at a scorching 6 mghz and then 8 mghz PC and XT was 8088 CPU running at 4.77 mghz. Is this like pointing out a typeo? :laughing: I have an IBM ruler from the AT announce day.

Gracious, the PC 1 was released 31 years ago. Seems like yesterday....

An OS should not fail when updating an application.

Later,
Dan

 

[Soundguy]

9.0C OR 9.00C SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

 

[pacerron]

couldn't tell you if I do or don't. I do keep my video drivers and bios updates courtesy of asus though.

yeah.. ie9 should probably never have been reccomended. not sure why it was. it's not like I logged onto the wus site and searched for it.. it was a pop up bubble from updater in my system tray.. deffinately a MS 'fail' issue there..

Soundguy,
As I mentioned last night IE-9 was not meant to be compatible with XP.
Microsoft is promoting it strongly but as you see on Internet Explorer - Web Browser for Microsoft Windows

they are very specific to show that it is only for Vista and W-7.
You made us curious about Windows Updates so I cranked up my old pc that has a legal, registered XP on it. The first thing that happened, from clicking Windows Update from the start menu was that the site checked for their latest version of Updater. It always does that even if you go back there during the same session. You must have Active-X turned on for it to work.
Since I hadn't been there for awhile it offered 9 important updates and 4 optional. None of them offered or suggested IE-9. They were mainly security updates for IE-8. I went back again after the install and reboot but there were no more available.
Since you were having such a public snort about your problem it would be helpfull to know if you purchased your pad new or used? There are lots of bogus copies of the operating systems out there, even on new equipment if you buy it too cheap. Windows update shouldn't allow any updates though unless a hack has made them think the system is legal. I am not accusing you of any foul play, just wondering what caused your problem?
I would suggest that you go to Windows Update now from your start menu and see if IE-9 is offered to that equipment since you are now back on IE-8.
You sound computer savy so should be able to enlighten us all so we can learn the best path to take on computers still running XP.
Automatic update is normally configured so that your equipment checks for updates at a certain time but it does not automatically download and install them. It just pops up, as you say, the next time you turn it on.
Why did it offer IE-9 to XP is the real question?
Ron