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Windows XP: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7
It's just a new look - but more secure..
by PC-PILOT - 12/1/06 8:41 AM In reply to: If going FF, keep IE7. Otherwise for your favs by ackmondualI do like Firefox, but not all web pages display properly. And, actually, AOL Explorer isn't bad. BUT: I think that the main reason people don't like IE7 is because it is just DIFFERENT. Bottons are in different places for features that have been around forever. Remember IE4 and 4? Nothing much changed until 7. So - I got over Windows 3.1 and got used to Windows 95 in short order. You will get accustomed to IE7 ... just give it a try and excercize some patience.
Boy, am I happy!
by gutt96 - 12/1/06 8:53 AM In reply to: It's just a new look - but more secure.. by PC-PILOTBoy, am I happy the originator of this thread posted and the rest of you answered. I have been using IE7 off and on since the last Beta, and I have been tearing my hair out since then trying to figure out if I had done something wrong in the download and setup of it. It was so slooooooow, I often went to the kitchen and poured a coffee during the download of a page. Just last night, while using it, I fell asleep (for real!) while waiting on it to download a puzzle on Yahoo! Nice to know I'm not alone. If there's that many of us having problems, think of the ones who aren't posting, don't subscribe to C-Net, etc. MS may get the word and go back to work on this otherwise excellent browser and get it right.
Try this..
by PC-PILOT - 12/1/06 9:01 AM In reply to: Boy, am I happy! by gutt96Next time you're experiencing that slow-down, re-boot your PC. Then go right back into IE7 and go to the same page where you were experiencing the trouble. You may benefit from a system clean up ... a lot of temp files, cache file and memory that hasn't been released from previous activity may be bogging you down. Windows 98 LOVED machines with a minimum 128mb of ram, by the way. XP LOVES a minimum of512mb of ram - keep this in mind.
I Upgraded to IE7 and believe the pluses overide the minuses
by LesDelaney - 12/1/06 8:56 AM In reply to: If going FF, keep IE7. Otherwise for your favs by ackmondualOnce you get used to some of the crap that Bill forced on us as a prelude to Vista, IE7 can be livable once one fixes a few things. I for one didn't like the new menu layout. The classic menu that we have all been used to, with "File, Edit, etc." is meant to be at the top of the page. I guess I'm not alone, since this registry hack has been posted to restore it:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001
Just the fact that the perpetual printing problems with IE have finally been fixed (it only took 10 years), has been reason enough for me to keep it.
The new IE7 toolbars are another issue. Again, Bill has decided how HE wants the menus to appear, and the user doesn't get much configurability. MS needs to get it into their arrogant head that the user is the very reason MS even exists. The new IE7 menu wastes a lot of screen real estate - it needs to be configurable. A good example would be if the user were allowed to move the new "here are your new menu buttons whether you like them or not" to the same line as the classic menu which we have already found a way to restore to the top where it should be. . .
Forget going back to IE 6 just install K-Meleon
by jmd8421r - 12/1/06 12:05 PM In reply to: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7 by DarlindebeMy computer loaded down IE7 too. I don't plan to use it at all. Years ago I found a better browser that is smaller, faster, and safer. You can get K-Meleon at
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Bye the way it uses IE's favorites right in place with no change. It will add and explore the favorites right from the browser.
IE7 lost Cause
by pipedreams - 12/1/06 12:50 PM In reply to: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7 by DarlindebeI'm here in the UK - IE7 is full of promise and short on delivery. I've lost count of the number of times I have had to install/de-install IE7 (my saved searches stay with IE6 when reverted); works fine for a few weeks, then loses the plot - latest is a mismatch with my ISP (seems to think I'm using proxy settings?; they advise going back to the more stable IE6) and failed connection to regular websites - and painfully slow loading websites whilst carrying out security/validity checks.
Now trialing FireFox (with Cool-Iris plug-in; great addition)- no hitches thus far(and will eventually set as default browser, me thinks)but prefer the crisper graphics of IE7. Fully endorse other uses dissatisfaction with IE7 - how can such a major league player get it so wrong? - arrogance and market domination is not a comfortable bedfellow!!!! And as for Windows Defender?? there-in another story......
Falling into the ie7 pit
by helene_okc - 12/1/06 1:15 PM In reply to: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7 by DarlindebeAfter reading all the replies, I too accidently installed the IE7 nightmare. What on earth is going on with Microsoft these days? Even trying out the new hotmail BETA LIVE MAIL, turned out to be a days nightmare. I could not get into my reg hotmail. But that is all corrected now, and un-installed. Too many problems. Also with the IE7 I went into ad/remove programs, and deleted it, also went into the search and deleted it there (bet it is still lurking in the background). The BIG problem I encountered, was messing up my INCREDIMAIL (cox.net). I could NOT send anything out. Contacted them, and they were aware of many "bugs" with IE7. It took me days to the Incredimail to work, trying this and that. I have let ALL my contacts know not to install the IE7. I too am looking into Firefox.
I also installed ie7 in pure frustration....read on
by cle0 - 12/1/06 1:53 PM In reply to: Falling into the ie7 pit by helene_okcI installed ie7 because it was easier than NOT doing so. The constant barrage of "critical updates" messages annoyed the heck out of me. I immediately regretted the decision and uninstalled from add/remove programs as suggested before in this thread. I really detest the presumption by MS that it can decide what is safe for me to look at, play, record, receive in email - I hate the way they dumb me down to their level of incompetence. I have now bought a Mac, I use Firefox on the PC or Safari on the Mac, anything in prefence to IE of any persuasion.
As I get more and more accustomed to "Losing Ctrl and gaining Command" (Apple slogan)I will use MS products less and less to the point where they won't have a place in my life!
Vista is a wannabe attempt at a Mac by Microsoft, realising that the way of the future is about people being creative with their media, not having it thrust down their throats in a package, something Apple excels at - sorry guys Mac is waaaaaaaaaaay ahead of the game on this front!
There now I feel better!
Have a g'day 
It's slow
by DH1 - 12/1/06 1:44 PM In reply to: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7 by DarlindebeI, too, have been using IE7 for a month or so. I haven't experienced any significant problems other than, as one poster mentioned, it looks new/different. I don't much like having to hunt-and-peck to find edit/copy/paste, etc. commands. (Has anyone tried the registry hack listed in a previous post to change the tool bar?)
What I really don't like about 7 is, as mentioned numerous times, it is slow. I feel like I'm wasting money on my high speed internet connection as many webpages take two or three times as long to load as with IE6.
I often sit and sit and wait and wait for a webpage to load - all the while watching the little Phishing progress bar creep along - and wonder ... would turning the Phishing filter OFF speed things up? Has anyone tried doing so? Would it be safe or would doing so possibly expose us to other security vulnerabilities within 7?
Security Certificates
by ossgrouch - 12/1/06 4:48 PM In reply to: It's slow by DH1I must say that so far IE7 has worked, albeit a little slower than IE6. My biggest problem has been with how it handles Certificates. Just about every time I try to access a secure site, it refuses to load the page, something about the Certificate beeing from an untrusted site. I have to force lowding the page, then it agains warn me with a red background in the address bar. True, it gives me an option to look at the certificate, and then to install it to IE7. But what a pain. And I am using Quicken software to keep track of my lousy finances, and guess what, it uses the stored certificates in IE7 to access bank accounts etc. If the certificate isn't there, well, it just don't work, and it isn't easy to find a way to install the correct certificate.
Thanks everybody for the hints here how to go back to IE6.
Phishing
by billyp1935 - 12/2/06 4:30 AM In reply to: It's slow by DH1Yes - I turned the Phishing off on my three computers. It is a waste of time in my opinion and I have dial up. That is what is slowing down IE7. I can't tell any difference in IE6 and IE7 except the looks now.
favorites export
by Wencierra - 12/1/06 2:36 PM In reply to: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7 by DarlindebeIn IE7 go to file menu then import-export the wizard comes up and just follow along from there
IE 6 insted of IE 7
by ranka_navaratan - 12/1/06 5:58 PM In reply to: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7 by DarlindebeI have Dell Dimention 520 with Windows XP Home Edition installed.Even I did not like IE 7 so I too uninstalled IE 7 & automatically I got back IE 6 & all my favourities were also intact. They are all working fine. No problem. I don't think there should be any problem in installing IE 6 after removeing IE 7.
go back to ie6
by Douglashb1 - 12/1/06 7:45 PM In reply to: Need to go back to IE 6....don't like IE 7 by DarlindebeGo to control panel click add /remove scroll down to IE7 click remove.
If this doesn't work go to Microsoft site and put in the search bar:
Release notes for Internet Explorer 7 Release Canadiate 1. There is
also a Microsoft unintsaller on their site that does it for
you. Put: Ie7 uninstall:support in the search bar.
So far no problems seen with ie7
by Jsph62 - 12/2/06 3:34 AM In reply to: go back to ie6 by Douglashb1Reading this far, there must be people with problems usind IE7 though, to the date I have not seen any.
Different?, sure but than most new things you have to get used to.
Perhaps it is a bit slower, but with my 10MB bandwith I have since a few weeks there is not much to complain about.
Naturally, I also use the Firefox and would even set it as preference if I could find how to.
It used to be set as such with IE6, but after updating to 7, I can't find where to set this.
This is realy my only negative point on IE7
Anybody can tell me how to set the Fox as preferent browser?
Cheers, Joseph.P.
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