Computer newbies forum: How to get back to IE7 from IE8

...and installing a beta program certainly isn't for "Newbies". The general uninstall instructions for IE8 are to use the Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs section to uninstall. Have you tried that?

Have you tried the beta forums for IE8? I'm sure they will appreciate your input and may have a solution to your issue.

Internet Explorer 8 Help & Support Site

Internet Explorer Beta Newsgroup

Hope this helps.

Grif

...not at the full release yet.. It's one step beyond the beta which means it's still in the "candidate" testing phase.. Basically, it isn't fully ready for prime time yet.. I still believe using such early released versions of Internet Explorer are not for the Newbie computer user.

See the download site below:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx

Hope this helps.

Grif

Well don't feel like the Lone Ranger w/ out Tonto... a whole ship load of us in trouble. I've been on my pc for 5 days/nights straight w/ several techs at different forums behind me, even in Microsoft's Forum. I jus knew I had trojans. Just found this half an hr ago (below)! I couldn't figure out for the life of me why IE 6 didn't kick in & wHy IE 8 never worked. My IE 7 just hangs now & says it can't locate the iexplorer.exe file & it's in my face big as day. I'm scared to uninstall SP 3 b/c several ppl in our situation ended up w/ blue screens..but any way heres 2 links 4 u.



http://www.computerweekly.com/Articl...r-problems.htm

>>Microsoft has warned Windows XP users they will not be able to change to different versions of the Internet Explorer browser once they install XP's third service pack.

The firm says users trying out Internet Explorer 7 will not be able to revert back to Internet Explorer 6 after installing XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).

The same applies to those users trailing the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 after they install the service pack, with those users also unable to downgrade to older versions of the browser in the future.

This means IE8 beta users could be locked into a beta version of the browser and having to cope with bugs and an incomplete version of the software.

Users currently running IE7 on XP SP2 will see Windows Update offer them XP SP3 as a high-priority update.
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Once installed, IE7 will remain on their system. Microsoft said the reason for this was to deliver a stable file state and to ensure the latest updates to the browser remained active in the operating system.

In the case of IE8 users, Microsoft is not offering SP3 via Windows Update to help avoid any problems. It has warned IE8 users to uninstall the beta before choosing to install SP3.

>>UNinstalling issues w/ IE 7
http://www.ie-vista.com/kbase2.html

Windows Internet Explorer 7 and 8 Windows XP, VISTA (All Languages)

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This is the route I resorted to after 60 cups of coffee, 6 day/nights no sleep & 3 decent meals. They answered the phone promptly & the tech was on it w/ in 10 min. He got on my pc (remote) & took over. They had to replace window files that were missing (alot) being I had no cd & after the 3rd reboot 'all' my iexplorer.exe files started working. He thought I had a hiddedn malware b/c it didnt kick in at first but I read on a website that it takes a pc a few boot to adjust to changes w/ in the computer (Share the miracle *smile*)!

I had this problem when IE8 was offered unsolicited as an official MS Update a few days ago, and I accepted the Update.
IE8 then kept hanging literally every 5 minutes or less and was driving me mad and costing me time and serious money.
So I tried to download IE7 again ... but no, it wouldn't let me ! (The sheer nerve of that !)

I overcame this problem after a great deal of frustration and losing the best part of a day's work ....and this was my very effective solution :-
I simply downloaded OPERA. Works great, is much faster than IE, and doesn't hang at all.

Many thanks. I was obviously looking to make it more complicated than it really is !

IE8 and its constant hanging has been really getting on my nerves !