7DaysinParadise
Welcome to Paradise => Help Section - how do I? => Topic started by: JohnnyCastaway on October 22, 2006, 11:34:00 AM
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Microsoft has released Internet Explorer7 last week, with a whole bunch of new features mainly focusing on security and "internet safety". Currently it's available from the Microsoft site as a download, but as of November 1st (or there abouts) it will be added to the critical updates that most windows xp systems download and install on your computer (if you have the updates set to automatically download).
If you don't want the download to happen automatically, you have a couple of options. For the technically savy, you can download a "installation blocking kit" from microsoft that will remove it from the critical install, or you can set your update option to "download the updates, but let me choose when to install them". Then when you get the little yellow shield down in the system tray (beside the time) you can click to say install now, but chose the CUSTOM method, and deselect the IE7 update. If you chose EXPRESS then it will install it for you automagically.
I have been evaluating this new release for the past week so that I can offer my clients advise on whether or not to install it, I'll share my observations here:
First thoughts, I'm quite liking it. The tabs are a welcome addition, as during the day I'll have a dozen (sometimes more) windows open so to have them in tabs is very welcome. The new security features look for suspicious aspects of the website your going to, such as phishing attempts, non matching certificates, etc.
They have decluttered the top menu bar, so it gives more "screen real estate" to the actual webpage that you're looking at.
It seems to be a bit faster at loadup than version6 is, and you can define mulitple home pages. Not sure about that feature yet, but it's there if you want to use it.
Favourites (bookmarks) come up in it's own window, and disappears quite easily as well.
I've tested Citrix, MS web based apps (CRM if you're interested), DB driven websites, TD Bank, PCFinancial, Royal Bank, and various other "specialized" sites that might have a problem with it, so far there has been no compatibility issues that I've noticed.
Of course, the 7days website comes up clean :D
the only "glitch" that I've noticed so far, is that some pages that are coded to open in a new browser will actually open in a NEW browser, as opposed to a new TAB, including 7days. It may be a setting with in IE, or it may require some minor updates to the code on the site. I'll look into that a bit further.
If you're going to do the update, make sure you run all of the critical updates to your system first, otherwise the install program will do that, and it adds considerable time to the install. (they should all be done already, right? ;) )
Make a copy of your favourties (bookmarks) folder, just in case. you can find them at c:\documents and settings\{your user name}\favourites (where {your user name} is the name that you logon to your computer with.
Simplest way to do that would be to create a folder on C:\ called TEMP or BACKUP and then go to the area listed above, do a right click and copy on the favourites folder, then navigate to the C:\TEMP folder and do a paste into it. I've yet to hear of it trashing that folder, but better to be safe than sorry.
The install will require a reboot so make sure you do this install with everything closed, especially the current Internet Explorer program, otherwise it will nag you incessently to close it so that it can update the files.
if you have any other questions, post them here.
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Thanks for the info. John.
I'll be in Cuba on November 1st so when I return I'll see what people think of it before I install it.
I have 'Automatic Updates' turned off.
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I'm tired of Updates and new versions....I wish they where not so close together ;)
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it gets even worse when a company makes a product to work with the existing version of IE, now this new one will potentially blow their software out of the water. :D
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I tried IE7 a while back as a beta and didn't like it, though can't remember why. Went back to 6, but now I'm using 7 again and it seems fine, will likely just keep using it.
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I upgraded to IE 7 on my return from Cuba.
I really can't see that it is so much of an improvement on IE 6.
It's OK but nothing to get excited about.
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Sorry, just caught up to this post -- apparently because I'm not using FIREFOX 2.0! :D
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I'm with you there Millybess.
I thought it was a Clint Eastwood movie!!!! lol
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Originally posted by bellagio:
I'm with you there Millybess.
I thought it was a Clint Eastwood movie!!!! lol
:rof:
(Maybe we're both too slow!.) :rof:
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At 2.00am in the morning I sure am!!!
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Well I just put in IE7 on the weekend and it seems ok to me. The plug-ins that I do use in IE, namely IM Translator seems to work just fine. I really do appreciate the zoom factor down in the bottom right corner, especially for those sites with small text. (another excuse for old eyes) :D
I did have some issues with ClearType which is supposed to make your on-screen fonts look better on LCD displays (vs CRT) but as my Toshiba laptop has it's own screen utilities, I found that the ClearType actually made things worse. So I ended up turning that feature off. But by the time all that was sorted out, I also ended up changing my screen fonts anyway. Nice and readable now.
Think I'll keep it and not go back to IE6.
Steve
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Another problem that I won't have to deal with...
IE7 ( along with it's viruses, trojans and hacks) will not run on ME.
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Well I just started using it this morning and I like it so far...
:)
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Well I just started using it this morning and I like it so far...
:)
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I started using IE7 a week or so ago and so far so good. Mind you, I cannot find the History button ;) but so far that is my only problem. As far as Firefox goes, my son put it on our last computer as that is what he uses but IE6 came installed on this computer and so I had better stick with Explorer........the Computer Whiz that I am ;)
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Milli, I'm with you I can't find the History either ;)
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I just found it :D
Right next to the Back-Forward button there is an arrow pointing down.
It's for recent pages, click on it and the very bottom is the History button.
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:t: Thanks BD!
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Your Welcome Milli :)
I do like some of the new little things that the new version has :) as with life, change is hard but inevitable.
BD :s:
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I do have one complaint, it seams to take a half second when you do click on something for it to react :confused:
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For those of you who have installed IE7: I was having a problem with a "lost" photo album at Sony Imagestation and the first thing the help desk asked was what web browser I was using and told me that Sony Imagestation is not compatible with IE7 :confused:
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I have just tried it with Sony Imagestation and all seams to work well for me...what do you mean by lost album...?
BD :s:
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It seems to work fine for me as well but I haven't added any new images. I checked one day and my first Cuba album was not there. I rechecked later and it still was not there. The issue with IE7 was one of the first things the guy at Help Desk said :confused:
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Our IT department at work has forbidden us to download IE7 on our work computers.
We're not allowed to use it until they have checked it out and are happy that all the bugs have been worked out.
It sounds like Milli found the first bug.
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Three words:
DON'T DO IT!!!
...UNTIL IT'S BEEN OUT A long TIME! :7:
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I've been using it now for a month and a bit, with out any real problems, in fact it seems to be a bit more stable than IE6 was. The only thing that I've found is that I've set it to open a new tab instead of a window, and I'm missing some of the windows that would normally open up in a new window, such as in our gallery, but I'm used to watching for the new tab now so no probs. All banking, and critical sites work, in fact, I haven't found one that doesn't work yet. :t:
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I like the new one and have not had any problems either...Progress is great !!
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I normally use firefox and recently have down loaded flock http://www.flock.com/ (http://www.flock.com/) Val uses IE so I guess we will download it and give it a go
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I must be well behind the times :roll: it was only offered to me as a download this morning -I'm not sure -there seems to be a lot of clicking and whirring going on :th:
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Just installed IE 7 on my laptop, and I have a stupid question... Where is the refresh button on the toolbar??? :(
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It should be right beside the address bar (small square with green arrows).
I have a question. I turned my computer on this morning and the screen is upside down. Any thoughts?
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Thanks SharonAnn!
See.. I told you it was a stupid question! :p
I didn't even see that button, because it doesn't look like the one in ie6. :confused:
Here's your answer:
To revert to a right-side up display, hold down the CTRL, ALT and UP (arrow) keys.
To prevent it from happening again, here are the steps:
- Right Click on your desktop
- Choose Properties
- Click on the Settings tab
- Click Advanced
- Click on Intel Extreme Graphics tab
- Click on Graphics Properties
- Click Display Settings
- UNCHECK "Enable Rotation"
- Click Apply
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Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. :applause:
I thought I was asking a stupid question!!
Now I can finally get some work done. I can't believe in all my years working with computers I have never had this happen before. I must have been leaning on my keyboard or something when I shut it off on Friday.
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I was going to make a joke on how that could have happened but I missed the chance :rof:
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I was going to make a joke on how that could have happened but I missed the chance :rof:
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I uninstalled it - it had a conflict with my modem :roll:
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I'm replying late because I just joined and found this thread. For those of us with HP4570 scanners, IE7 changed some script code and now the scanner will not work (XP-home). HP says the problem is MS, MS says the problem is HP. As ususal the customer is left out in the cold. I found a couple of workarounds that do not work for my setup but the good news is that ACDSee V9 can operate the scanner and actually does a better job than HP!