[Virtualacorn-list] Internet Explorer problem

[Alan Adams]

One to beware of if you reinstall Windows XP from scratch.

If you upgrade IE6 to IE8, Adobe download manager locks up IE, which 
means you cannot install Flash, Shockwave etc. This has only shown up 
recently, as until about a month ago Windows Update offered IE7 on a 
machine with IE6, then offered IE8. Now it offers IE8 on a machine 
with IE6. (If Adobe locks up, it is likely other things will too. 
Microsoft need to fix this, but I'm not holding my breath.)

Fortunately you can still get IE7 from Microsoft's download site, so 
the solution is to download and install IE7 before allowing Windows 
Update to convert to IE8. This three-stage route works.

It took two fun days of building and rebuilding two PCs to discover 
what happened, and the solution. Fortunately they were new, fast 
computers, so it wasn't quite as time-consuming as it could have been.

-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan at adamshome.org.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/