GZ
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The biggest difference is in Security... It also has full support for HTML5
IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses
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The biggest difference is in Security... It also has full support for HTML5
Anthony N
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I see, For me I like to always see new and shinier GUIs I mean ie10 is the next major version, why not go full blown on the GUI as well... cheap microsoft...
GZ
Visiting Expert
TBH, I think that MS hit the nail on the head with the clean simplicity of IE9 and am very glad they didn't make a major change for IE10...
Anthony N
Well-known member
To each their own.
IE will get a fair chance to shine. It'll just be a matter of time.
IE will get a fair chance to shine. It'll just be a matter of time.
Well here's a head-scratcher:
My Laptop - Windows 7 64-bit
My PC - Windows 7 32-bit
IE10 works perfectly on my 32-bit Windows 7 PC.
IE10 will not work at all on my 64-bit Windows 7 laptop (and yes, I did install the 64-bit version obviously). After installing it, it opens with a blank white window & will not open any web page.
Uninstalled it, re-installed it. No change.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no lover of Internet Explorer anyway. I simply wanted to give the new version a test drive on both machines.
Since it only works on one of my machines, I've removed it from both and I'll happily carry on using the Chrome browser that I know & love.
My Laptop - Windows 7 64-bit
My PC - Windows 7 32-bit
IE10 works perfectly on my 32-bit Windows 7 PC.
IE10 will not work at all on my 64-bit Windows 7 laptop (and yes, I did install the 64-bit version obviously). After installing it, it opens with a blank white window & will not open any web page.
Uninstalled it, re-installed it. No change.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no lover of Internet Explorer anyway. I simply wanted to give the new version a test drive on both machines.
Since it only works on one of my machines, I've removed it from both and I'll happily carry on using the Chrome browser that I know & love.
Usually when that happens, the installation has failed due to some other application taking ownership of and changing one of the registry keys IE needs to modify in order to install properly. It's not easy to track down either, but that's likely what happened. You have something installed on your 64bit box that you don't on your 32bit box, likely.
Don't suppose you have any idea what's wrong with my IE10 do you?
I had to temporarily downgrade to IE9 to test something out for somebody. Turned out to be a huge mistake. The installer failed (i'll have to look up the error code), and has left me somewhere inbetween IE9 and IE10. All files are versioned 10.x, all registry keys I can find are versioned 10.x, and the COMPONENTS/SideBySide/CBS keys/hive looks intact for IE10. SURT detects no errors (other than the normal IE10 hyphenation and spelling issues), yet Windows Update displays no IE components at all of any version. I've tried re-registering as many .dlls as I possibly can, and I've traced as much as I can using ProcMon, but haven't been able to come up with anything I can fix. I've slowly been working through fixing issues relating to reinstalling IE10. The problem is, I can not see much connection between what I'm fixing. I keep getting (mostly) error code 0x80080005, often but not always related curiously enough to file permissions. Those I can fix back to what permissions/ownership they should be quite easily, but then I just get another error. Each time goes through tow reboots + reverting actions, etc. etc, so takes quite a long time
I've fixed all permissions issues in winsxs (every IE10 manifest and folder had overly tight permissions whereas every non IE10 component has perfectly normal permissions). Now not getting very much useful out of CBS.log. Just that I already have an equal or never version installed. I've tried downgrading the registry (everything except COMPONENTS/CBS/SideBySide keys) down to IE9, and earlier IE10. No good. Only thing left to try would be manually and carefully uninstalling IE10 from COMPONENTS hive, winsxs, etc. I'm pretty sure I can get it at least 95% accurate, and as long as I've got SURT to help, I am probably get it most of the rest of the way. If IE10 installer then fails, I can read CBS.log, and maybe, maybe get it installed. But I am slightly leery of doing this when so much IE10 stuff still exists. Seem better to repair the one tiny corruption than to try to manually uninstall the whole of IE10 which will take forever and lead to errors on my part. I've tried uninstalling with wusa.exe, pkgmgr.exe, etc., but apparently IE10 is not installed.A write off?
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It's hard to say, unless you know exactly what IE10 installs and changes, and what IE9 does above and beyond IE8 on a Win7 system. I know where that information can be gathered, but that's not something the layperson is going to be able to find. In situations like these, I usually make a restore point before downgrading and revert if anything goes horribly wrong. If you don't have that, it's probably best to start over.
Thank you very much for your help. As you correctly pointed out, this is unfortunately IE. Had it been a normal update I suspect it would have been easier, but with IE it's all of the non-COMPONENTS etc. hive stuff which concerns me. Even looking through the manifests and update XML to find most of it (although that would be a tremendous amount of work
), I still wouldn't be able to get all of it by any means. And anyway, contemplating solutions which take longer than a Clean Install, regardless of their chance of success, is silly I might try a Repair Install, but it's such a hassle. Even if I slipstream an SP1 disk (or uninstall SP1), I'd have to move all of my documents folders, etc. back onto my SSD (I think that's necessary???). But they won't fit, so then I'll have to back them all up, and delete the contents before restoring location.
Unfortunately, I had no System Restore points. I hadn't noticed, but my system restore points were going onto my SSD where there wasn't enough space and they all got deleted
lol, TBH, I think a Clean Install's the way forward. After all, they don't take that long and they come with lots of other benefits for problems jury rigged solutions only compound.
Thanks again for your help :)
Richard
Thanks for your input but i won't be wasting any time trying to discover what caused the failed installation. it would be wasted effort and time when I'm quite happy with the superior Google Chrome.