PA Bear wrote:
> You may have a horked (dirty; bad; flawed) install of IE7. I suggest that
> you..,


Man, that was a lot of work. I did what you said, uninstalled IE7, uninstalled
the Google toolbar, turned off auto update, rebooted twice, then downloaded and
saved the IE7 file from the download site (rather than Windows Update). I then
installed the software and rebooted twice again, reactivated auto update, then
installed the updates Windows found. I rebooted again, then tried IE7.

When I logged in as my father, it was as if I had stepped out for a beer instead
of spending all this time reloading the software. Nothing was fixed. Then
again, nothing was worse. When I logged on as myself, everything worked as it
should. In other words, everything now is exactly as it was before I did
anything.

Bummer.


Mort

>
> 1. Uninstall IE7 (which automatically returns you to IE6) per
> http://www.ie-vista.com/kbase2.html
>
> 2. Uninstall all toolbars and third-party Windows Themes (including Window
> Blinds).
>
> 3. Reinstall IE7 per http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#pre-install,
> and using http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/default.mspx as the
> installation source, not Automatic/Windows Update.
>
> Also see:
>
> IEBlog : IE7 (Un)Installation and Anti-Malware Applications
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...lications.aspx
>
> What's New in Internet Explorer 7
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/e...asp?frame=true
>
> George Z. Bush wrote:
>> I'm visiting my father and fixing the cumulative problems since my last
>> visit. He's running Windows XP Home SP2 and I installed Internet Explorer
>> 7
>> last night. This is ****ed peculiar:
>>
>> We have two users on this machine; him and me. If I log in, I see the
>> "normal" IE7 just as it exists on my home machine, which runs XP Pro
>> SP2...
>> I have three tabs to my home page and all operates as I think it should.
>>
>> If my father logs in, as you look across from top left to right, you see
>> "Favorites Center", then "Add To Faqvorites", then "Home". There are no
>> tabs; there is no way I can see to open a new tab. Now, there is a
>> downward pointing arrow just to the immediate right of the "home" button.
>> Clicking on it shows the three selections my father wanted to be tabs for
>> his home page. If you click on any one of them there is no delay in
>> opening... so it's as if it were functionally opening a previously loaded
>> tab rather than opening a new window. Visually, it's as if you opened
>> another window.
>> We share the same firewall (ZoneAlarm Pro), the same anti-virus (Norton's
>> Systemworks 2003), the same anti-spy (Windows Defender). For the life of
>> me, I don't see why it works properly for one user but not another.
>> Ideas?
>>
>>
>> Mortimer Schnerd, RN
>> mschnerdatcaroplina.rr.com