Vista problem with ie

One solution was to launch IE with no add ons. One suggested editing group policy but gpedit does not exist on Vista Home Premium. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE8 and the same error occurred. All these solutions worked for some people, while I did not yield any results.

The most common solution and what seemed to work for a majority of people had to do with registry settings. Now, I am not an expert at tampering with the registry but my computer skills are intermediate and I can follow directions. Here are the instructions: 1. Make sure IE8 is closed and navigate to the registry key.

Reopen IE8 and see if you still get error message. This yielded positive results for many people. I came to this conclusion. IE8 is fairly new. It could have some glitches. Windows Vista causes a lot of headaches that are unnecessary.

There is nothing wrong with Internet Explorer 7. It will fulfill your needs. I uninstalled IE8 and kept IE7 instead. Apr 7, 85 0 18, 1. Why don't you use Firefox instead of IE8, and then just install an extension called ie tab, for the pages that can only be opened in internet explorer.

I've never even used firefox. Justin Gollnick :. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads Solved! Login issues with ig Image Resizing Issue how to contact facebook regarding accout issue? Toms Hardware Notifications issue?

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Visit our corporate site. Wednesday, February 20, AM. Okay first of all the is the best advice for all IE7 users, for added security, funcinallity, usablity, performance, better memory usage Now that's out of the way.

Is UAC enabled? I recommend disabling UAC if you are running as an administrator If you are not a power-user I recommend running as a normal user with UAC enabled, it will be a more pleasant and safer experience Secondly, your system sounds like it might be infected by spyware or viruses.

Thirdly, You can use keyboard shortcuts in the meantime for the missing show desktop. By holding down the windows key and tapping the tab key it will bring up the flip 3D menu hold down tab to spin through the windows this will let you chose which window to view or to go to the desktop. Lucky for you this is the first useful thing I have heard of for flip 3D hahaha.

Finally if you are a power user, there is a hidden administrator account that requires a registry hack to use, but it is the ultimate administrator account on vista it might help you out, it might not. Hope these links help. Thursday, February 21, AM. Right well, if you need help installing windows. Pop in the dvd, and restart. While it is first starting up before the loading screen hit F12 a repeatedly once usually doesn't work for me until the boot menu come up.

Then select boot from CD. This will start the install process. I would format the hard drive, this will completely erase everything and start you over from scratch. If there are things you want to save, videos, pictures, ect. You should back them up on a jump drive or external device. Let me know if you need instructions on how to do this. BTW you need to run an elevated command promt to activate the administrator account.

To do this, type in "cmd" in the start menu and then right click not left on the cmd command promt program and select "Run as administrator" This should get rid of the access denied error you are getting. I can not endorse the use of If you need help getting XP back you should email me instead of reposting here. This isn't that great although it does seem to speed up firefox's start time. Friday, February 22, AM. He is patient and knows the tricks.

Problem is, Vista won't let me delete or disable the account with the problems under Admin. Being the delicate not user I am, I have fired off a terse letter of dismay at their Help site that was useless!

I don't know where you are, but I"m in BC and its am here and I've had enough of Vista for the night. I hope you will let me come back and pick your brain a little further as I have more faith in a stranger.

Well, I know you are not going to like this but I would reinstall vista all together if I were you. Do you have the install disk still. Where is BC? Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development. Sign in to vote. Just recently, ie cannot run. A pop-up windows telling me "Internet Explorer has stopped working" A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program. How can i uninstall ie7 then reinstall it again.

Else, what should i do. Friday, May 18, PM. Baker - MSFT 0. Monday, May 21, PM.