Debated whether or not to put this in “General Questions”, but decided that it was so unimportant that this was the spot for it.
After receiving many warnings from various sites to the effect that “…you are using an old browser that is no longer supported…”, I bit the bullet and upgraded to IE 8. This turned out to be very easy, and things went swimmingly for several weeks. Didn’t notice much difference, but at least the Internet didn’t bitch at me for using an obsolete browser any more.
Then a short time ago, IE 8 began deciding to poop out on me. I would click on its shortcut, and then the screen would go blank, and stay blank, no matter how long I waited. So I reinstalled IE 8, with no apparent problems or error messages, and opened it. AND, instead of IE 8, IE 6 came up on the screen. Microsoft is wierd.
Well OK, so I reinstalled IE 8 again, and this time IE 8 did come up when opened. All went well for several days, and then the same problem (blank screen) started again. Tried to reinstall IE 8, and again IE 6 was the result. Saying “the Hell with it”, I’ve left IE 6 on my computer and again am using it for my standard browser. I still get the occasional grumbling from the Internet about using an obsolete program, especially from You Tube, but have found that if these warnings are ignored things work perfectly. And I no longer have to reinstall my browser on practically a daily basis. Anybody else experience this?
I won’t get into the exciting things that had happened with my mail after replacing Outlook Express with Windows Live Mail. Suffice to say that I’ve learned how to back up my address list and messages files, something that I never had to do with Outlook Express.
Question - is Microsoft regressing as it upgrades? Are we eventually going to be all the way back to DOS 6? Their software sure doesn’t seem to be getting any better. I bought a new laptop the other day, with Windows 7 installed, and am waiting with baleful anticipation to find out what booby traps it has in store.