Help With IE7

[bigred1says]

I am running Vista on my laptop and am not able to get on IE. I get a message that says Internet Expolrer cannot display the webpage. I have gone into tools and hit the reset button in the advanced tab. I have also tried to download Net Scape and got the same error message. Is there anyone out there who has an idea of what the problem may be?

[Rhino]

I'm not real familiar with Vista or IE7. Have you tried loading a local web page, one stored on your computer? You should be able to search your hard drive for any files with the htm or html extension. If you can open a page on your hard drive, but not on the internet, I would suggest checking firewall settings. Try turning the Windows firewall off and see if that helps. If it does, then your problem is somewhere in your firewall settings.

[bigred1says]

We believe that it picked up some kind of virus that has blocked access to internet browers. It still pings the wireless network and is able to download MS & Symantic updates via the net. I guess I will put it in the shop and let the geeks with greater power have a shot at it. Thanks for your help Rhino.

[bigred1says]

I installed McAfee and it cleared it up... now I can quit using the laptop as a paper weight. :claps:

[Rhino]

Cool.

[DoctorDoom]

Vista has developed a reputation as a colossal blunder by Mickeysoft. Businesses refuse to adopt it. Savvy consumers are rejecting it. Dell is still building boxes with XP to meet customer requests. It won't run on many older machines, doesn't support a lot of programs, and is slower than XP.

It may yet turn out to be MS' first major OS failure.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

A pop-up came and asked if my friend wanted parental controls, she X-ed out but apparently it took the parental controls anyway, and now she can't get on any gaming sites. Does anyone have any suggesions how to fix this?

[DoctorDoom]

In IE, Tools > Internet Options > Content > Content Advisor is where parental control lives. If it's not enabled, it may be something her ISP offered.

[CzechPrince]

There are things i miss about a pc, but I'm quite happy with converting over to mac. it wasnt to hard to get used to either.

[Gonzo67]

Vista has developed a reputation as a colossal blunder by Mickeysoft. Businesses refuse to adopt it. Savvy consumers are rejecting it. Dell is still building boxes with XP to meet customer requests. It won't run on many older machines, doesn't support a lot of programs, and is slower than XP.


I've been watching Vista. I have been guessing it will be much like ME and XP... Total crap until the first service pack. Then getting progressively more stable with each patch and even more so on following service packs. But from what I have seen, both in web talk, and from a couple news letters I get, PC Stats newsletter contains quite a bit about Vista very often, it doesn't look as if my assumptions will pan out. Vista is crap now, and all hints seem to suggest that MicroShaft intends it to remain so. There are still quite a few issues with nVidia drivers not working right with Vista. Those same issues were present on the first day Vista shipped, and they remain still.


It may yet turn out to be MS' first major OS failure.


In my opinion, it has already achieved that honor.

XP Will remain on my system. I have a bootleg version of Vista, fully cracked so I can get all patches and updates, and I still refuse to use it. If they can't get someone to use that over priced POS Operating System for free, they sure as hell will never sell me a legitimate copy.

Vista is a failure. If you're running XP, I suggest you stick with it. If you're running less than XP and are planning on upgrading, I suggest you don't go past XP.

[Rhino]

It may yet turn out to be MS' first major OS failure.Too late. Windows Me has that honor.

[EveningStar]

Too late. Windows Me has that honor.
I bought a Gateway in 2000 with ME installed. It was crap, alright. But I kept it anyway. Finally, I had a major crash in 2003. By that time, XP had been out for 2 years. I had that installed and my computer was fine.

Last year, I bought a Dell with XP installed.

As for IE, I tried IE7 for a few months. It's actually my backup browser. I use FF most of the time. I finally uninstalled IE7 and IE6 is now my backup browser.

[DoctorDoom]

I "upgraded" to IE7 a few months back. It was considerably slower than IE6 and had the annoying habit of disabling printing in IE and OE. Finally I trashed it and went back to 6 SP2. The grief wasn't worth the dubious improvement of tabbed browsing, which I've had in both Opera and FF for years.

BTW, XP's SP3 is in beta.

A forthcoming update to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Windows XP operating system will include patches that add pieces of Windows Vista to the operating system, according to a research group that has seen the code.

"Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with all-new features, not just patches and hotfixes," said researchers at NeoSmart, a nonprofit group that tracks computer technology. Most of the new features are "backported from Windows Vista," according to NeoSmart.

Specifically, Windows XP Service Pack 3 steals a page from Vista's product activation model, meaning that product keys don't need to be entered during setup, said NeoSmart. The feature should prove popular with corporate IT managers, who often need to oversee hundreds, or even thousands, of operating system installations.Windows XP SP3 To Include Vista Elements, Researchers Say (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204700446)