A few days ago I inadvertently installed IE7.0 and decided I hated it so I
uninstalled it and I'm currently running IE6.0 SP2 which is what I had
before. Since I uninstalled 7.0, my left search pane doesn't work like it
used
to. This is the search pane that comes up when I click "search" in the
IE6.0 toolbar.

I am using Altavista as my default search engine that opens in the left pane
when I click the "search" button, and it provides me with a list of my search
results. However, when I click on those resulting links, nothing happens.
If I right click and select "open in new window", it works. So the links
are good, but the left click button doesn't do anything with them.

I like the way it used to work so I don't have to keep closing windows. Why
don't the links work anymore? How can I fix this? IE7.0 seems to have
messed it up.

BTW, when I tried to post on this board I wasn't signed up and tried to
left click "sign up now" or whatever comes up on the login page. NOTHING
happened, in fact none of the links on that page work for me. I finally got
logged in with another person's ID.

I have since I deleted the Altavista cookie, but it didn't do anything to
fix the problem. I still can't get the links in the left search pane to
work. This ALL started
when I installed and uninsalled IE 7.0.

I have tried to RESTORE my system using System Restore to a date before I
installed IE7.0, but my system says it cannot restore to that date for some
reason. I believe IE7.0 corruped something that I can't fix now. I wish I'd
never accepted the damn upgrade. In fact, I'm not sure I even did...some of
this crap happens automatically!!

I also cannot get my computer to read certain CDs now. My girlfriends PC
with Vista reads them just fine, and mine used to, but now it doesn't. It
seems to be related to IE7.0 as well. It seems like a horrible piece of
software to me.

I think MSFT is responsible for this and I want to know how to fix it. This
PC is only a year old, and I shouldn't be having these problems that STARTED
when I installed IE7.0.

I didn't make a backup CD when I bought my PC because it took something like
18 CDs to do it! My PC was shipped with NO CDs, all preinstalled SW. I
bought a backup drive later but forgot to backup the OS. So how can I get my
XP to work like it used to? Is there a place to re-load XP?

Finally, I tried to backup my PC today to an HP Personal Media Drive. When
the Sonic software asks me where I want to backup, it gives me the option of
the DVD/CD, but NOT the PMD. It's like it doesn't even recognize that it's
there. This also used to work before I installed IE7.0. I can still
manually backup by copying files, but the scheduling feature doesn't work.

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! IE 7.0 is a POS!

Yep, IE 7 has all sorts of "Copy Protection" built in.

It's a Real Mess.

I installed it then took it off my system three times and found it to be
totally useless.

DSH

"nomad" <nomad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5BB8BA21-121C-40BC-A073-EF0F21B478AD@microsoft.com...
>A few days ago I inadvertently installed IE7.0 and decided I hated it so I
> uninstalled it and I'm currently running IE6.0 SP2 which is what I had
> before. Since I uninstalled 7.0, my left search pane doesn't work like it
> used
> to. This is the search pane that comes up when I click "search" in the
> IE6.0 toolbar.
>
> I am using Altavista as my default search engine that opens in the left
> pane
> when I click the "search" button, and it provides me with a list of my
> search
> results. However, when I click on those resulting links, nothing happens.
> If I right click and select "open in new window", it works. So the links
> are good, but the left click button doesn't do anything with them.
>
> I like the way it used to work so I don't have to keep closing windows.
> Why
> don't the links work anymore? How can I fix this? IE7.0 seems to have
> messed it up.
>
> BTW, when I tried to post on this board I wasn't signed up and tried to
> left click "sign up now" or whatever comes up on the login page. NOTHING
> happened, in fact none of the links on that page work for me. I finally
> got
> logged in with another person's ID.
>
> I have since I deleted the Altavista cookie, but it didn't do anything to
> fix the problem. I still can't get the links in the left search pane to
> work. This ALL started
> when I installed and uninsalled IE 7.0.
>
> I have tried to RESTORE my system using System Restore to a date before I
> installed IE7.0, but my system says it cannot restore to that date for
> some
> reason. I believe IE7.0 corruped something that I can't fix now. I wish
> I'd
> never accepted the damn upgrade. In fact, I'm not sure I even did...some
> of
> this crap happens automatically!!
>
> I also cannot get my computer to read certain CDs now. My girlfriends PC
> with Vista reads them just fine, and mine used to, but now it doesn't. It
> seems to be related to IE7.0 as well. It seems like a horrible piece of
> software to me.
>
> I think MSFT is responsible for this and I want to know how to fix it.
> This
> PC is only a year old, and I shouldn't be having these problems that
> STARTED
> when I installed IE7.0.
>
> I didn't make a backup CD when I bought my PC because it took something
> like
> 18 CDs to do it! My PC was shipped with NO CDs, all preinstalled SW. I
> bought a backup drive later but forgot to backup the OS. So how can I get
> my
> XP to work like it used to? Is there a place to re-load XP?
>
> Finally, I tried to backup my PC today to an HP Personal Media Drive.
> When
> the Sonic software asks me where I want to backup, it gives me the option
> of
> the DVD/CD, but NOT the PMD. It's like it doesn't even recognize that
> it's
> there. This also used to work before I installed IE7.0. I can still
> manually backup by copying files, but the scheduling feature doesn't work.
>
> SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! IE 7.0 is a POS!

D. Spencer,

Yeah, I think IE7.0 is a POS, and takes away a lot of what I like in 6.0.
But regardless of that, did you have it screw anything up? As I said, I
uninstalled it but it appears to have corruped other files on my computer and
I don't know how to fix them.

So far, I found that is screwed up my "search" function, some links on other
websites, ability to read some CDs (don't know why some work) and my Personal
Media Drive isn't detected in my backup software. I'll probably find more
stuff the POS software corrupted.

Now all I want is my original 6.0 functionality restored. My "system
restore" doesn't work because it probably corrupted it too. I think I need
to reinsall XP, but I don't know how to do that....I have no discs with XP on
them.

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote:

> Yep, IE 7 has all sorts of "Copy Protection" built in.
>
> It's a Real Mess.
>
> I installed it then took it off my system three times and found it to be
> totally useless.
>
> DSH
>
> "nomad" <nomad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5BB8BA21-121C-40BC-A073-EF0F21B478AD@microsoft.com...
> >A few days ago I inadvertently installed IE7.0 and decided I hated it so I
> > uninstalled it and I'm currently running IE6.0 SP2 which is what I had
> > before. Since I uninstalled 7.0, my left search pane doesn't work like it
> > used
> > to. This is the search pane that comes up when I click "search" in the
> > IE6.0 toolbar.
> >
> > I am using Altavista as my default search engine that opens in the left
> > pane
> > when I click the "search" button, and it provides me with a list of my
> > search
> > results. However, when I click on those resulting links, nothing happens.
> > If I right click and select "open in new window", it works. So the links
> > are good, but the left click button doesn't do anything with them.
> >
> > I like the way it used to work so I don't have to keep closing windows.
> > Why
> > don't the links work anymore? How can I fix this? IE7.0 seems to have
> > messed it up.
> >
> > BTW, when I tried to post on this board I wasn't signed up and tried to
> > left click "sign up now" or whatever comes up on the login page. NOTHING
> > happened, in fact none of the links on that page work for me. I finally
> > got
> > logged in with another person's ID.
> >
> > I have since I deleted the Altavista cookie, but it didn't do anything to
> > fix the problem. I still can't get the links in the left search pane to
> > work. This ALL started
> > when I installed and uninsalled IE 7.0.
> >
> > I have tried to RESTORE my system using System Restore to a date before I
> > installed IE7.0, but my system says it cannot restore to that date for
> > some
> > reason. I believe IE7.0 corruped something that I can't fix now. I wish
> > I'd
> > never accepted the damn upgrade. In fact, I'm not sure I even did...some
> > of
> > this crap happens automatically!!
> >
> > I also cannot get my computer to read certain CDs now. My girlfriends PC
> > with Vista reads them just fine, and mine used to, but now it doesn't. It
> > seems to be related to IE7.0 as well. It seems like a horrible piece of
> > software to me.
> >
> > I think MSFT is responsible for this and I want to know how to fix it.
> > This
> > PC is only a year old, and I shouldn't be having these problems that
> > STARTED
> > when I installed IE7.0.
> >
> > I didn't make a backup CD when I bought my PC because it took something
> > like
> > 18 CDs to do it! My PC was shipped with NO CDs, all preinstalled SW. I
> > bought a backup drive later but forgot to backup the OS. So how can I get
> > my
> > XP to work like it used to? Is there a place to re-load XP?
> >
> > Finally, I tried to backup my PC today to an HP Personal Media Drive.
> > When
> > the Sonic software asks me where I want to backup, it gives me the option
> > of
> > the DVD/CD, but NOT the PMD. It's like it doesn't even recognize that
> > it's
> > there. This also used to work before I installed IE7.0. I can still
> > manually backup by copying files, but the scheduling feature doesn't work.
> >
> > SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! IE 7.0 is a POS!
>
>
>

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nomad wrote:
> A few days ago I inadvertently installed IE7.0 and decided I hated it so I
> uninstalled it and I'm currently running IE6.0 SP2 which is what I had
> before. Since I uninstalled 7.0, my left search pane doesn't work like it
> used
> to. This is the search pane that comes up when I click "search" in the
> IE6.0 toolbar.
>
> I am using Altavista as my default search engine that opens in the left
> pane
> when I click the "search" button, and it provides me with a list of my
> search results. However, when I click on those resulting links, nothing
> happens. If I right click and select "open in new window", it works. So
> the links are good, but the left click button doesn't do anything with
> them.
>
> I like the way it used to work so I don't have to keep closing windows.
> Why
> don't the links work anymore? How can I fix this? IE7.0 seems to have
> messed it up.
>
> BTW, when I tried to post on this board I wasn't signed up and tried to
> left click "sign up now" or whatever comes up on the login page. NOTHING
> happened, in fact none of the links on that page work for me. I finally
> got
> logged in with another person's ID.
>
> I have since I deleted the Altavista cookie, but it didn't do anything to
> fix the problem. I still can't get the links in the left search pane to
> work. This ALL started
> when I installed and uninsalled IE 7.0.
>
> I have tried to RESTORE my system using System Restore to a date before I
> installed IE7.0, but my system says it cannot restore to that date for
> some
> reason. I believe IE7.0 corruped something that I can't fix now. I wish
> I'd never accepted the damn upgrade. In fact, I'm not sure I even
> did...some of this crap happens automatically!!
>
> I also cannot get my computer to read certain CDs now. My girlfriends PC
> with Vista reads them just fine, and mine used to, but now it doesn't. It
> seems to be related to IE7.0 as well. It seems like a horrible piece of
> software to me.
>
> I think MSFT is responsible for this and I want to know how to fix it.
> This
> PC is only a year old, and I shouldn't be having these problems that
> STARTED
> when I installed IE7.0.
>
> I didn't make a backup CD when I bought my PC because it took something
> like
> 18 CDs to do it! My PC was shipped with NO CDs, all preinstalled SW. I
> bought a backup drive later but forgot to backup the OS. So how can I get
> my XP to work like it used to? Is there a place to re-load XP?
>
> Finally, I tried to backup my PC today to an HP Personal Media Drive.
> When
> the Sonic software asks me where I want to backup, it gives me the option
> of
> the DVD/CD, but NOT the PMD. It's like it doesn't even recognize that
> it's
> there. This also used to work before I installed IE7.0. I can still
> manually backup by copying files, but the scheduling feature doesn't work.
>
> SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! IE 7.0 is a POS!

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:03:00 -0800, nomad wrote:

> A few days ago I inadvertently installed IE7.0

Well, you just have to be more careful when operating a pc.

[advertently snipped drivel]

> SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!

Google for release notes pertinent to IE7 and pre-installation
recommendations and grow up!

> IE 7.0 is a POS!

You were causing your dilemma, don't blame IE7!
--
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
(Benjamin Franklin)

No...

I managed to roll back to IE 6 safely each of the three times.

I'm not going to try again until I see IE 8.

Whoever developed IE 7 should be hanged, drawn and quartered.

DSH

"nomad" <nomad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BA669EE2-804D-428C-989F-A42EADD81BA6@microsoft.com...

> D. Spencer,
>
> Yeah, I think IE7.0 is a POS, and takes away a lot of what I like in 6.0.
> But regardless of that, did you have it screw anything up? As I said, I
> uninstalled it but it appears to have corruped other files on my computer
> and
> I don't know how to fix them.
>
> So far, I found that is screwed up my "search" function, some links on
> other
> websites, ability to read some CDs (don't know why some work) and my
> Personal
> Media Drive isn't detected in my backup software. I'll probably find more
> stuff the POS software corrupted.
>
> Now all I want is my original 6.0 functionality restored. My "system
> restore" doesn't work because it probably corrupted it too. I think I
> need
> to reinsall XP, but I don't know how to do that....I have no discs with XP
> on
> them.
>
> "D. Spencer Hines" wrote:
>
>> Yep, IE 7 has all sorts of "Copy Protection" built in.
>>
>> It's a Real Mess.
>>
>> I installed it then took it off my system three times and found it to be
>> totally useless.
>>
>> DSH
>>
>> "nomad" <nomad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5BB8BA21-121C-40BC-A073-EF0F21B478AD@microsoft.com...
>> >A few days ago I inadvertently installed IE7.0 and decided I hated it so
>> >I
>> > uninstalled it and I'm currently running IE6.0 SP2 which is what I had
>> > before. Since I uninstalled 7.0, my left search pane doesn't work like
>> > it
>> > used
>> > to. This is the search pane that comes up when I click "search" in the
>> > IE6.0 toolbar.
>> >
>> > I am using Altavista as my default search engine that opens in the left
>> > pane
>> > when I click the "search" button, and it provides me with a list of my
>> > search
>> > results. However, when I click on those resulting links, nothing
>> > happens.
>> > If I right click and select "open in new window", it works. So the
>> > links
>> > are good, but the left click button doesn't do anything with them.
>> >
>> > I like the way it used to work so I don't have to keep closing windows.
>> > Why
>> > don't the links work anymore? How can I fix this? IE7.0 seems to have
>> > messed it up.
>> >
>> > BTW, when I tried to post on this board I wasn't signed up and tried to
>> > left click "sign up now" or whatever comes up on the login page.
>> > NOTHING
>> > happened, in fact none of the links on that page work for me. I
>> > finally
>> > got
>> > logged in with another person's ID.
>> >
>> > I have since I deleted the Altavista cookie, but it didn't do anything
>> > to
>> > fix the problem. I still can't get the links in the left search pane
>> > to
>> > work. This ALL started
>> > when I installed and uninsalled IE 7.0.
>> >
>> > I have tried to RESTORE my system using System Restore to a date before
>> > I
>> > installed IE7.0, but my system says it cannot restore to that date for
>> > some
>> > reason. I believe IE7.0 corruped something that I can't fix now. I
>> > wish
>> > I'd
>> > never accepted the damn upgrade. In fact, I'm not sure I even
>> > did...some
>> > of
>> > this crap happens automatically!!
>> >
>> > I also cannot get my computer to read certain CDs now. My girlfriends
>> > PC
>> > with Vista reads them just fine, and mine used to, but now it doesn't.
>> > It
>> > seems to be related to IE7.0 as well. It seems like a horrible piece
>> > of
>> > software to me.
>> >
>> > I think MSFT is responsible for this and I want to know how to fix it.
>> > This
>> > PC is only a year old, and I shouldn't be having these problems that
>> > STARTED
>> > when I installed IE7.0.
>> >
>> > I didn't make a backup CD when I bought my PC because it took something
>> > like
>> > 18 CDs to do it! My PC was shipped with NO CDs, all preinstalled SW.
>> > I
>> > bought a backup drive later but forgot to backup the OS. So how can I
>> > get
>> > my
>> > XP to work like it used to? Is there a place to re-load XP?
>> >
>> > Finally, I tried to backup my PC today to an HP Personal Media Drive.
>> > When
>> > the Sonic software asks me where I want to backup, it gives me the
>> > option
>> > of
>> > the DVD/CD, but NOT the PMD. It's like it doesn't even recognize that
>> > it's
>> > there. This also used to work before I installed IE7.0. I can still
>> > manually backup by copying files, but the scheduling feature doesn't
>> > work.
>> >
>> > SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! IE 7.0 is a POS!

Kayman,

So you think I'm to blame for downloading some POS Microsoft software
accidently that is REALEASED and SUPPOSED to work correctly then uninstalling
it and having it trash my computer? I didn't want the POS in the first
place. I didn't think IE7.0 was that big of a deal, so when it loaded I
wasn't concerned until I saw what a piece of garbage it is. I thought I was
basically getting some IE6.0 enhancements, not that trash.

So why won't my computer work correctly anymore after uninstalling the
garbage software? Is THAT my fault? I didn't cause anything, MSFT did.

I just found out that I can't even load PDF files now....how did I cause
that, a-hole?

This has been going on for a few weeks now and I still can't get IE6.0 to
work correctly.


"Kayman" wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:03:00 -0800, nomad wrote:
>
> > A few days ago I inadvertently installed IE7.0
>
> Well, you just have to be more careful when operating a pc.
>
> [advertently snipped drivel]
>
> > SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!
>
> Google for release notes pertinent to IE7 and pre-installation
> recommendations and grow up!
>
> > IE 7.0 is a POS!
>
> You were causing your dilemma, don't blame IE7!
> --
> Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
> (Benjamin Franklin)
>