I read a couple days ago that IE7 was showing up on Windows Updates automatic downloads. At first, I believed it. Then, when I checked manually (I have automatic turned off), Microsoft Updates did not show it available for my computer.
This morning, though, my desktop (my only computer that still has IE6) had the “updates available” icon in the status bar.
Sure enough, IE6 was there and waiting…
On that particular machine, I will _not_ install IE7 — but only because I need IE6 to be able to view sites in the browser that the Win98, WinMe, Win2000 and much of the WinXP world will be using.
Since I design web sites, I want to make sure that they look good in Firefox (my normal browser), Opera, IE6 and IE7.
Whenever you install IE7, make sure you have 20-30 minutes for the upgrade process. You’ll think that Windows is installing all over again .
The instructions say to turn off your antivirus and antispyware, since both of those types of programs try to protect Internet Explorer from changes — in this case, the protection would mess up the upgrade. So, I turned off NOD32, CounterSpy and WinPatrol. Since I was safely behind a router, I also turned off my firewall during the installation.
Of course, a reboot is required at the end. Actually, it took 2 reboots on my computers, the changes during startup interfered with my other startup programs.
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I had Windows 98se and upgraded to Windows XP home edition as soon as it came out. My System had been running great since 2000, then I saw IE7 available on Windows Update. I installed IE7 and it worked fine until rebooted, then alot of programs on my desktop would not execute? I unistalled IE7 and now runs fine??
Ouch! That’s not a good sign.
Would you give some examples of programs that didn’t work? I haven’t had anything programs fail after installing IE7. This is on XP Pro SP2 and XP Home SP2, all fresh installs (when I installed them – not upgrades over existing systems).
I tried CClean, MusicMatch, & MSN Verizon all three failed so I had to uninstall IE7. Everything was fine after that. Maybe because I upgraded Windows 98se to XP, IE7 probably doesn’t accept the old format.