Community Newsletter: Q&A: MS Update force-feeding MS IE v7! Help!
MS Update force-feeding MS IE v7! Help!
by berock - 11/2/06 4:41 AMI used to use the AUTOMATIC UPDATE setting on Microsoft Update. I changed that weeks ago to "Notify Only", rather than "Just Do At Some Assigned Time" when Update for WindowsXP KB904942 (says it's for the OS but resolves HTTP authentication issues that show only in MS IE v7; I use MS IE v6) seriously messed up other applications. I had to use System Restore to fully remove this update and get things to work right again. For KB904942, I now bypass and the MS Update system tray icon had stopped lighting up to announce this unwanted update.
Now MS Update and its system tray icon keep alerting CONTINUOUSLY, trying to force feed MS Internet Explorer new Version 7 WITHOUT the usual option of bypassing the update. If I read correctly, updating to MS IE v7 can be uninstalled but I think that's a COMPLETE uninstall, NOT a revert-to-MSIEv6. At work, the IT Dept has found serious flaws and incompatibilities and has told us to NOT update, at least for now.
Without that bypass for this particular "upgrade" to MS IE v7, Microsoft's MARKETING effort has rendered the system tray icon to any other MS Update alert useless. Does anyone know how to get MS Update for this MS IE v7 to STOP acting like a 5-year-old on a sugar rush????
Thanks
Try this...
by John.Wilkinson
- 11/2/06 7:52 AM
In reply to: MS Update force-feeding MS IE v7! Help! by berock
Actually when you uninstall IE7 you are reverted back to IE6 automatically, though that process is not foolproof. Thus, i have several options to offer:
1.) Click here to download and install the IE7 blocker from Microsoft, which will prevent it from being downloaded and installed automatically indefinitely.
2.) Go to Windows Update, run a custom scan, find the IE7 listing, uncheck it, and then check the box under it to hide it in the future.
3.) Double-click the Automatic Updates icon in the system tray, view what updates are available, uncheck IE7, then proceed. That should remove IE7's notification for now and #1 will block it for the long term.
Hope this helps,
John
MS Update force-feeding MS IE v7!
by berock - 11/3/06 4:57 AM In reply to: Try this... by John.Wilkinson
Thanks! Number 2, with the hide notification in the future, finally did the trick. Number 1 is not an option for me, in case I later want to ''upgrade''. Number 3, which sounded like the best option for me, did not work; although unchecked, as soon as I accepted and closed that window, the system tray MS Update icon remained as a glowing yellow shield icon still announcing that this MSIE7 is available again.
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