NICK ADSL UK Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 IE7 Installation and Anti-Malware ApplicationsA few people have asked why we recommend temporarily disabling anti-virus or anti-spyware applications (which I’ll refer to together as anti-malware) prior to installing IE7, so here’s a little insight to the situation. Along with copying IE7 files to your system, IE7’s setup writes a large number of registry keys. A common way anti-malware applications protect your computer is by preventing writes to certain registry keys used by IE. Any registry key write that fails during setup will cause setup to fail and rollback changes. We work around the problem in most instances by checking permissions at the beginning of setup, but many anti-malware programs monitor the key rather than change permissions. Therefore, setup thinks it has access when it starts, but then fails when it later attempts to write the key. The majority of users likely haven’t seen any such problems even with anti-malware enabled because we work with third-party vendors to identify IE7 setup as ‘safe’ based on something like digital signatures or file hashes. While this could lead us to remove the recommendation to disable anti-malware apps, we’ve decided to leave it in setup because a number of factors may still cause some customers to have this problem. Specifically:With all the anti-malware apps available, we don’t want to assume all of them work just because we haven’t heard of a problem yet. Even anti-malware apps we’ve tested sometimes require the latest definition updates. If a user doesn’t have the latest definitions, he or she may still hit a problem even though we consider the issue resolved. Failed installation is an awful user experience so we take every step to reduce the chances of setup failing.I hope this helps answer some of your questions. John HrvatinProgram Managerhttp://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/1...plications.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 andsome - you may be good looking - but you are a ruddy jinxAfter booting this morning I had to log-in to the forum. The cookie failed.Grrrrrrrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 andsome - you may be good looking - but you are a ruddy jinxAfter booting this morning I had to log-in to the forum. The cookie failed.Grrrrrrrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 AlanHo. As an idiot myself, can I assume you have the "cookie settings" enabled as you would wish in "Tools--internet options--privacy---settings---advanced"Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 AlanHo. As an idiot myself, can I assume you have the "cookie settings" enabled as you would wish in "Tools--internet options--privacy---settings---advanced"Thos.Who's a clever boy then? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Thanks, AlanHo, where you lead, I shall follow (eventually)Thos. :)I spent a happy half hour yesterday downloading and installing IE7 and have encountered no problems so far. I like the tabbed browsing now that I know what it means and have had a look at the plug-ins and noted what they do in case I feel a need for them, over and above what I have already, later.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Started playing up again after using CC. After a reboot I have to log on again. Cookies not saved as requested. :( :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Started playing up again after using CC. After a reboot I have to log on again. Cookies not saved as requested. :( :(From the CCleaner Forum: in the Internet Explorer section, uncheck 'Delete Index.dat files'; this should resolve the cookie cleaning problem with IE7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Started playing up again after using CC. After a reboot I have to log on again. Cookies not saved as requested. :( :(From the CCleaner Forum: in the Internet Explorer section, uncheck 'Delete Index.dat files'; this should resolve the cookie cleaning problem with IE7.Many thanks. Just done that I will report back next time I use CC.Just tried it, and everything is now fine. Many thanks. It's funny it didn't behave like that with IE 6. I am now getting quite used to IE 7. Come on pops have a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Come on pops have a go.We have just received a brand-new Firefox 2. Microsoft Update now also runs on Firefox, so there is perfectly 0 need for a new Internet Exploder.Is there anyone who can tell us some advantages of IE7 over FF2? AlanHo reported in this other thread that the legibility is better, but according to his last post, this is no longer the case.Any other arguments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4\/!d Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Is there anyone who can tell us some advantages of IE7 over FF2?Hello Pat, try this:Review: Radically New IE7 or Updated Mozilla Firefox 2--Which Browser is Better?:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 No further comments an FF. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Thanks, D4\/!d - the article itself is not very informative, but the comments at the bottom are very interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 I have installed IE 7.I still prefer Firefox. This may be due to familiarity with the browser (in the same way andsome prefers IE) and I do find the new IE layout confusing.Also, I don't have cookies/passwords disappearing in Firefox after a run with CCleaner - whether or not I have to tick new boxes in CCleaner itself :) To add further confusion, you may be aware that I do web checking for my son, well, there's a new version of Netscape just been issued which looks quite impressive. So, give the new Netscape a run - it installs easily (no reboots, shutdowns etc.) and it has a comprehensive looking security suite included.Get it from HERE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Someone, (sorry can't recall who), posted a fix for the IE7 Menu Bar position. If anyone knows of its' whereabouts, could you please guide me to it.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 This do? * Close Internet Explorer. * Go to START-->RUN and type regedit to open the Registry Editor. * Naviage to the Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser. * In the white area to the right, right-click and select NEW-->DWORD and label this new entry ITBar7Position and hit ENTER. * Double-click the ITBar7Position entry you just created to open it's properties window and change the value from 0 to 1. * Close the registry editor. * Open Internet Explorer 7 and you will now see the Menu Bar at the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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