IE 9 BOMB

[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