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Comment from Bob Nichols on 2009-11-15

2009-11-16T03:22:09Z

I downloaded IE8 without knowing the possible problems, and I regret it.
Many of my desk top shortcuts will not open.
Some web sites are very slow, but do open. I did no back up.
How can I go back to IE7, I had no problems there.
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Comment from Liquid FUsion on 2009-10-29

2009-10-29T07:20:11Z

IE8 / XP SP3 - both of these seemed to work fine until on reboot Hal.dll was corrupted. Without this file you can't boot into windows. Googling IE8, there seem to be many hal.dll / boot.ini pblms with IE8. XPPro Sp2 IE6 works A+. Why mess this up?

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Comment from Tony Stephan on 2009-10-26

2009-10-27T00:29:35Z

After 'updating' to IE8 Windows wouldn't boot. I got alerts about SHDOCVW.dll not being a valid Windows image. I had no icons, taskbars or anywhere to work from. I started in Safe Mode with command prompt and got to System Restore. I rolled it back and got everything back, but IE8 wouldn't connect, some other alert popped up. I uninstalled it and got IE6 back which was still on my computer. All is well and I'll do the 'waiting game' from now on.

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Comment from techy on 2009-10-24

2009-10-24T12:41:05Z

People are just dumb and they don't know whats going on. broken webpages are result of not complying of the webmasters to the new source codes. that is why there is a compatibility button on the top next to resfresh button. shheehhs. I hate dummies. I think the problem is, before they installed IE8, thier machine is already broken.

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Comment from Greg Nyberg on 2009-10-10

2009-10-10T14:48:41Z

Don't Do It!, Don't Do It!, Don't Do It!
I recently went against my own gut and decided to try it and I have had nothing but problems, "Internet Explorer Cannot Display this page" I cannot find a solution and I understand there is no turning back to 7. Thanks so much againn Microsoft for making my life miserable.
What's that number again for Apple?
Wish I had read your article sooner.

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Comment from cjon on 2009-09-06

2009-09-06T23:29:40Z

Leo Said:

By backup, I do mean take an image snapshot of your entire machine, so that if you run into problems with IE8 you can easily revert the machine's complete state to what it was prior to the installation. That's what I'll be doing when the time comes.

You may have said it elsewhere, but I've had really good results with the free version of Macrium Reflect (here) http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

The only thing I see that isn't perfect with it is that if you burn your image to CD/DVD, and then boot from a CD, you need 2 CD/DVD drives to restore. The solution is to put either the boot image or the restore image on a flash drive and the other on CD.

Oh, and I won't be installing IE 8 anytime soon.

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Comment from cjon on 2009-09-06

2009-09-06T23:27:04Z

Leo Said:

By backup, I do mean take an image snapshot of your entire machine, so that if you run into problems with IE8 you can easily revert the machine's complete state to what it was prior to the installation. That's what I'll be doing when the time comes.

You may have said it elsewhere, but I've had really good results with the free version of Macrium Reflect (here) http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Oh, and I won't be installing IE 8 anytime soon.

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Comment from Bryan T on 2009-08-20

2009-08-20T07:15:13Z

I have been beta testing Windows 7 for quite a few months now. IE8 is preinstalled with the OS and you cannot revert to anything lower... yeah, pages load quick (sometimes), the highlighting of text and searching is cool... my issues are with getting errors every, oh, 3 clicks saying "This tab has been recovered" and it loads the page again... this is highly annoying. That Critical update thing Microsoft does is infuriating. I spent three full days trying to diagnose a flaky wireless network issue on a laptop(happened to be right after I installed a new router) ended up being IE8... I uninstalled it out of desperation and low and behold... microsoft did it again (WINDOWS 7 IS AWESOME THOUGH!!! and I'm a Vista hater)

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Comment from Richard on 2009-08-17

2009-08-17T16:41:46Z

I have not yet installed IE8. When I initially moved from IE6 to IE7, I could not access certain applications. The problem was that the user agent string was not updated correctly. Just wonder if there will be a similar problem with IE8.

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Comment from Kam on 2009-07-14

2009-07-14T21:17:48Z

I did back up, and got locked out of my computer. Worked on that quite a while. Of course I uninstalled IE 8. Now my computer takes 25 minutes, literally, to get into (meaning when hourglass stops showing). It would not let me do a system backup after the mess up.
Now what do I/we do?!

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Comment from Bob on 2009-07-12

2009-07-12T17:13:44Z

Install it? A whole world of no. Both I and my son installed it on our machines as part of a critical update and now a large number of sites are broken, either intermittently or permanently.

What was so critical for this, that such a large number of sites break?

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Comment from anthony on 2009-07-11

2009-07-11T11:32:46Z

After the dual disasters of Vista and the awful menus of Office 2007, both of which cost me a fortune, I just cannot believe Microsoft got it so wrong again. No way anyone should install IE8 - it has wrecked my recent, high spec machine.

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Comment from Bruce Thornton on 2009-07-09

2009-07-10T01:38:30Z

We let Microsoft Update and install IE8 on three PCs with Vista Home Premium, two 32-one 64 bit.
The 64 bit version stopped opening attachments in Microsoft Mail immediately. We also had to reinstall McAfee on the same PC when returning to IE7.
Bottom line: we removed IE8 from all three PCs and set up notification of new updates, not automatic install. All PCs now function as before the install.
I cannot believe Microsoft would allow problems/conflicts to exist between their own software programs. This a case of buyer/installer beware.
Firefox is our browser of choice and we will install IE8 again, only when the problems become minimal, not sure when that will be????

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Comment from Larry Steno on 2009-07-09

2009-07-09T13:47:21Z

On 4 of 4 units I know of 2 with Vista I with XP-pro and 1 with XP media center, all of them would not boot past the desktop with no icons on it. The XP-pro was fixed by going back to a previous checkstop, the other 3 needed a reload. Two were my own units and the other two not in my household. PROBLEMS abound.
Larry

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Comment from Luis Guerrero on 2009-07-09

2009-07-09T10:34:42Z

Just installed IE8 in my laptop, which runs XP Multimedia edition (a flavour of the Professional edition. Installation went flawlessly; the installer even imported favorites from Firefox. The explorer seems to be quicker than IE7, and has the possibility of installing add-ons, a welcome thing.

Along with the IE8 comes Media Player 11 and some sort of Windows update.

So long, so good ... but I have installed it half an hour ago ... :-)

In any case, if the program collapses or ruins XP, no problem ... I'm using Ubuntu as the main OS in that machine.

Have a nice day.

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Comment from Jack on 2009-07-07

2009-07-07T15:27:12Z

After installing ie8 -- no longer able to open or follow links without closing the host page.

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Comment from Rod on 2009-07-07

2009-07-07T12:37:58Z

Like Rod above I have a laptop running XP etc, however, I can't say that I haven't had problems. I dare say that if anyone can discern a difference in browsing speed between IE7 and IE8 that there is an unrelated issue, aren't we talking milliseconds? Like Richard above IE8 freezes when you get a bit snappy with the mouse. This I suspect reflects the demand IE8 places on the system and is perhaps derived from MS desire to push VISTA. Market economy. Your old hardware can't run VISTA so upgrade. My advice. If using XP stay away from IE8 until such time as you upgrade your hardware.

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Comment from Katrina on 2009-07-04

2009-07-04T18:01:14Z

Ok, I read some of the comments and this is what I have to say. I installed IE8 as a 'critical' update. My computer is set up to install critical updates automatically. This was on May 30. Everything ran fine until really recently (about two weeks or so). Some other IE8 updates were made. Unfortunately, I am unable to restore my computer prior to July 1, so going back to May or June isn't an option. I have been having serious Wi-Fi connection issues ever since, constantly being booted from the network every 2-4 minutes on average. Out of 4 computers in my home, only one has IE8, out of 3 computers using Wi-Fi, only the one with IE8 is having issues. I browse using other browsers....FF, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, and Netscape. I use IE only when I have to for certain sites that I work with that require it. I spoke to a Tech at Fry's Electronics who said that when he installed IE8 on his computer it crashed. I have considered other issues, but all drivers are updated, the problem persisted before the SP2 download, no other programs have been installed, there are no viruses, bugs, worms, etc on my system, and only the computer with IE8 is having issues. I would roll back if I could, the option to uninstall isn't available, and I would be afraid to because of how Microsoft sets up their system in a computer making sure that their fingers are in everything. My only fix, at the moment, is to wire myself in, so today I will be buying the longest ethernet cable possible to run to my computer. What type of connection do I have? Cox Cable (no issues in my area) with 12 mbps.

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Comment from Meghan on 2009-07-02

2009-07-02T20:10:10Z

I installed IE 8 and I got locked out of my computer! I was told to restart, and it won't turn on now. it tells me there's an error, and says to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete. It starts to load again, but then it comes back to the same error page, telling me to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete. It's an endless cycle!

DO NOT DOWNLOAD INTERNET EXPLORER 8!!!

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Comment from Dianne on 2009-06-09

2009-06-09T16:56:13Z

Ack! I run XP - I allowed the "critical update" too and had problems with web info pages, more specifically financial. I did a system restore and got a "serious error" message. All of IE7 had disappeared. Gone. So I reversed the restore to at least get back on line to get help. MS says you can easily recover IE7 but I am reluctant to try for fear of "breaking" something else.

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Comment from Dustin on 2009-06-08

2009-06-08T12:24:56Z

Definitely wait on installing IE8! IE8 Final on Vista Ultimate with SP1 (and now SP2) installed is gobbling up ridiculous amounts of memory on both of my computers it is installed on. Within minutes of opening, with only several tabs open, IE8 has swallowed over 500MB of memory. Eventually it will release the memory, only to start inching back up to well over 500MB. I've seen it take up as much as 1.5GB!! I have no add-ons installed and these are FRESH installations of Vista. Screw IE8 for now, I'm going back to IE7. Seriously thinking about Firefox.

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Comment from hank brenaman on 2009-06-05

2009-06-06T02:54:19Z

i installed ie 8 on one computer and the dial up stopped working my other one i didn't install it but it cant connect to my wireless network ie 8 has more than Microsoft money issues it broke my internet on 2 computers

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Comment from GEOFF on 2009-06-04

2009-06-04T10:17:31Z

JUST AN UPDATE ON MY POST. GOT A REPLY FROM A MICOSOFT MONEY SUPPORT PERSON. THERE IS A DEFINITE CONFLICT WITH IE8 AND MONEY. HE RECCOMMENDED AN UNINSTALL AND DIDN'T KNOW WHEN THE PROBLEM WOULD BE FIXED.UNBELIEVEABLE. THANKS A LOT MICROSOFT.THEY ARE ACTUALLY PUTTING THIS THING OUT AS A CRITICAL UPDATE? TWO AND ONE HALF HOURS OF MY TIME WASTED .AND TO SHOW YOU HOW MAD I AM I NEVER POST COMMENTS.

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Comment from GEOFF on 2009-06-03

2009-06-04T00:43:12Z

DOWNLOADED IE8 AS A "CRITCAL UPDATE" AND THE NEXT TIME I USED MICROSOFT MONEY HOME AND BUISNESS I CAN'T PRINT INVOICES. I UNDERSTAND OTHERS HAVE ENCOUNTERED THIS PROBLEM. I ENDED UP RESTORING AN IMAGE OF MY DISC PRE-INSTALL AND EVERYTHING WORKS AGAIN. IF THIS IS INDEED A BUG - FOR CRYING OUT LOUD , HOW CAN THEY LET THIS ONE GET BY? I MEAN THEY SELL THIS STUFF. VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH MICROSOFT. THANK GOD I HAD CURRENT DISC IMAGE COSIDERING THE HORROR STORIES I'VE BEEN READING ABOUT PEOPLE DOING UNINSTALLS AND SYSTEM RESTORES. ANYWAY GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY AND BE VERY CAUTIOUS IF YOU INSTALL THIS BROWSER VERSION. SHAME ON YOU MICROSOFT.

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Comment from Rod on 2009-05-23

2009-05-23T13:18:59Z

I installed IE8 and my Kenmore Ice Maker stopped working!! Yes, sounds moronic but that's the equivalent of some comments I have read on the net concerning IE8. Here's my experience: Two PCs: #1/ Laptop running XP Home SP3 #2/ Desktop running Vista 32bit SP1. Everything up to date on both. I have installed IE8 on both and have had ZERO problems on either PC. The install was flawless. The biggest difference I see between IE7 and IE8 is the speed of IE8. It is much faster on my older & slower processor laptop running XP. Now, how do I get MS to buy me a new icemaker???

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Comment from Richard on 2009-05-22

2009-05-22T08:11:08Z

I'm one of the unsuspecting. Trusted MS to have their 'stuff' together when saying 'Critical Update'...NOT!
I freeze up 3-4 times a day. Have to restart each time. MSN, runs slower? I won't even go to it now.
It was my homepage, now it makes my computer sick each time I 'touch it'.
I'm very disappointed in MicroSoft, and IF they ever do get this all fixed, I'll NEVER upgrade again. After reading some of the above, I'm afraid to even attempt to regain IE7.

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Comment from Carol Pilbrow on 2009-05-21

2009-05-21T09:15:39Z

I would be grateful to know how to NOT install IE8. As Christopher, above, says it comes up as a critical update and started installing before I realised and stopped it! No doubt it will try again? Carol

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Comment from Tetsuko Dolge on 2009-05-08

2009-05-08T14:36:50Z

I downloaded IE 8 because DOWNLOAD FREE on the screen never went away. After the download, I was not lead to INSTALL and FINISH on my screen because they did not appear. I wonder if IE 8 is in my computer. Msn is much slower, and it sometimes seems to be comfused. I don't see much difference on the tool bar either.

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Comment from Phil on 2009-05-06

2009-05-07T01:13:19Z

I had installed IE8 beta, and it worked like a charm, so when I was offered regular IE8 I had no qualms about installing. Mistake--my system slowed to a crawl, and even if I used Firefox that was also at a slow crawl. I did a system restore, hoping to go back to IE7 or at most the beta IE8. When it booted back up it said it couldn't restore, and even if I tried to restore to a month previous I had the same result, couldn't restore, only this time my original user profile was gone and all that was left was the admin account. I could no longer access my mail and everything in Documents and Settings under the original user profile was buried. Tried for two weeks to solve this a number of different ways, but no go, so the machine is in my computer guru's shop and I'm on an old laptop.
So much for the latest and greatest!!

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Comment from ray on 2009-04-30

2009-04-30T20:44:01Z

I would suspect when things "break" it may not the fault of IE8, and may be the case of non-standard HTML code by developers. Example, IE specific websites. Of course, we don't know absolutely for sure, but theoretically, if IE sticks to standards, it's on the developer to change their code, not MS.

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Comment from Gerjon on 2009-04-30

2009-04-30T16:37:35Z

Win XP Pro update flag (for IE8) appear on one of the machines I manage so I figued I'd take a look on just this one pc - set a restore point (system backed up) - update details said it was reversable - Install went smoothly - rebooted pc - went to run IE8 - comes up, locks up within a 20 seconds loading default page (a picture file locally) - have to kill it manually - was able to run a "NO Add-on's" IE8 - did a restore backward to IE7 - Restore said successful but made copies and renamed 2 system files (uh oh) - rebooted, ran IE icon to what still looks like IE8 but with NO menus/toolbars etc should have been IE7 - restored to original post update point - Win Restore said it was ok however 2 more files were copied and renamed this time with virucide suit (uh oh X2 !), more IE lockups - rebooted a few more times - IE8/7 hybrid on system - I'm done - told individual to use Firefox until MS get's their act together, AGAIN ! May need to rebuild system.

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Comment from Christopher on 2009-04-28

2009-04-29T04:00:56Z

Hey Leo,

You should mention/show people how to turn off/hide the Windows IE8 update that will keep telling them to download it as a critical update.

Some newbies won't know how to do this until it's to late. Oops, they installed it.

Take care, Christopher

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Comment from Moshe Natan on 2009-04-19

2009-04-19T19:12:24Z

I downloaded ie8, just THAT was a problem!Today the bookmarked "favorites" are all listed 9,10 times each. I'll have to sit and delete for hours. (any ideas?)

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Comment from james on 2009-04-14

2009-04-14T18:37:04Z

hi, um i recently insalled IE 8 (yeah i know but my net home page : btinternet.com, came up with an endorsed download) it also downloaded the windows updates. now my disk drie doesnt respond or read disks, the lights sounds and actions are all there, but it wont read disks that it did the week before, wouldnt pick up music disks. ive checked the support website and they say a software change could cause the BIOS or something to ignore it. is there a possibility htat the update could ahve caused this?
also after teh update the graphic scheme changed to vista basic from vista aero automatically (apparently because my graphics card went weird or a new software change) even thoguh i'd only restarted it. please help or e-mail me at [email address removed]- really appreciate ANY help

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Comment from Marlene Jonas on 2009-04-13

2009-04-13T16:27:16Z

thanks for info, I use to be one to update new stuff, NO more, will wait,Have not even updated to SP3 for XP too scard,

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Comment from Edy Medor on 2009-04-12

2009-04-13T00:46:42Z

Everything that I've read about IE8 is true. My mistake is that I've already installed it. Doing so is like buying something with a caveat emptor. My favorites are screwed up big time and some of my useful gadgets (like HP printing on a web page) won't work anymore because probably of some compatibility issues.

The worst part is that one has to have time to do a lot of reading to understand all the new features that come with it and that's not a no-brainer.

Best advice: Wait and see. That's exactly what I'll do when Vista 7 is unleashed.

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Comment from derek phillips on 2009-04-12

2009-04-12T10:44:54Z

I installed 8 and it has caused problems with my online betting.I caanot trasfer money in or out of my account,or acccess any info on what bets i have placed or print any bets off.it does not appear on add/remove but is in the system.

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Comment from Duane on 2009-04-12

2009-04-12T08:33:49Z

When I was a computer newbie I always went for the "latest and greatest". Now, my attitude is ... what's the rush?

Whether it be the newest version of IE or MS or anything else -- just wait. Let the masses test it - and screw up their systems.

There is NO NEED to have the latest and greatest. I'm running Win 98 and (still) love it. I refused to do the Vista thing. And when Windows 7 is released I'll wait at least six months before I even think about installing/buying it.

Slow down. Relax. You don't need the latest bells and whistles.

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Comment from Arthur HC Williams on 2009-04-12

2009-04-12T07:31:49Z

When I upgraded to IE7, I had terrible trouble with it. I get the New Scientist Newsletter, for instance,and since it takes an age to read the numerous articles, I download the pages. These were in MHTML, and, after two downloads, IE7 would freeze. I'd have to close IE7, and then go back to the site again.
I saw the light, and started using Firefox, and I am pleased with it.
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Comment from Camford1 on 2009-04-10

2009-04-10T21:02:13Z

Ken,
Have you tried the Firefox extension "IE Veiw" ?
A site you open with this this extension acts as though you are using IE
For a while I could not reach AOL Radio on Firefox but this extension did the trick
That way you dont need 2 browsers open

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Comment from Tina on 2009-04-10

2009-04-10T15:35:47Z

A friend gave us his old computer with Windows XP Pro. Version 2002 SP 2 with IE 7.0. We don't really like ie 7.0. How can I go back to IE 6.0?

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Comment from Rich on 2009-04-08

2009-04-09T05:40:43Z

I installed IE8 on one of my computers and within 3 hours I took it off and went back to IE7 and Firefox. IE8 was extremely slow loading web pages and I also had a lot of problems with getting links to open in new tabs instead of new pages. I think MS took it out of beta testing to soon.

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Comment from Ken on 2009-04-08

2009-04-09T05:11:34Z

First, let me share my experience with IE7 and Firefox 3.08. I haven't downloaded IE8 and thanks to your comments, probably won't. Firefox cannot open all Web sites. For example, ORS Radio Online links won't work in Firefox but in IE7. Secondly, IE7 can open XPS files while Firefox cannot. Of course, if Firefox can fix all those glitches, then I will solely use Firefox.

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Comment from bjth on 2009-04-08

2009-04-08T19:54:17Z

Oh, these comments are so comforting...makes ya want to rush right out and install IE8, right away.
:)

I'm happy with Firefox. The only time I've had to use IE is when I've watched Netflix movies online. Aside from that, I don't see a real need for IE on a regular basis, so heaven and it can wait.

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Comment from melissa smith on 2009-04-08

2009-04-08T15:39:17Z

I installed IE8 on my PC. Even though I have high speed internet, everything worked at a slow crawl.
It took forever for anything to open up. I went
to Add and Remove Programs, and removed it. I also used System Restore, to IE7. I am still having issues when my computer goes to standby mode, the application hangs, and I have to manually shut the computer down, and reboot. I would not reccommend IE8 to anyone. I leaves problems behind, even after you uninstall it.

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Comment from Brett Morgan on 2009-04-08

2009-04-08T15:16:58Z

As the admin for a small business I use a machine to test "updates" beforehand and IE8 was a nightmare. It stalled on a lot of pages for me and I had problems saving favorites. Not to mention the new format takes some getting used to. I uninstalled it and went back to 7 but couldn't get my favorites to work. After several trials, I finally found somehow my favorites had gotten redirected to a jump (no idea how) and I had to regedit to redirect it back to the Docs & Settings. I will wait a while before deploying 8.

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Comment from John Reese on 2009-04-08

2009-04-08T13:21:02Z

I am using IE 8 on Vista machine with no problems.
But my main brower is FireFox 3.08 and on other machine I use FireFox 3.5 Beta with no problems.
With my installed extensions I have Firefox fine tuned.

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Comment from Carl R. Goodwin on 2009-04-08

2009-04-08T12:33:00Z

Best thing to do is just to stay with Firefox.

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Comment from CK Bajpai on 2009-04-08

2009-04-08T07:02:51Z

Losts of Web sites do not work. It says that "Internet Explorer has stopped working" and finally it gives choice of closing down the browser. I have gone back to Firefox 3.08.

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Comment from Bob Metcalf on 2009-04-07

2009-04-08T05:50:55Z

I'm back using IE6! IE8 didn't want to access any link pasted. IE7 sent me to MY DOCUMENTS whenever I clicked on a link. I'm quite happy with IE6.
RTM

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Comment from robert stayman on 2009-04-07

2009-04-08T04:26:26Z

I took ie8 and it came with a hijack no kidding I got free support from windows as they have a free support line for virus and malware and lucky enough this guy got rid of the whole hijack file
and I kept trying to use ie 8 which sucked it was slow and slower I do not have a lot of ram on my computer like half a gig anyway I deleted it and got back 7 much better
Bob

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Comment from Joe Moyer on 2009-04-07

2009-04-08T03:43:33Z

I put the released version onto my computer and Asus P5WD2 Premium board with a Pentium Duo core and on my wife's machine a MSI PM8PM-V with a Celeron and IE8 works fine. I love the different colors you get when tabbing from different sources. Maybe the guys having trouble have proprietary machines with unique Bioses. I am a hard core build it yourselfer.

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Comment from Pavel on 2009-04-07

2009-04-08T03:30:33Z

You guys are lucky. I first installed IE8 when it was in betta. Naturally it had few problems so I uninstalled it. When I found out it was released I downloaded it again. What a nightmare! It seems that it depends on your computer make and the software you are running. It did not work on MICROSOFT WEBSITE!! The pages loaded with errors and I could not use their scanner. Same with my Yahoo and my Yahoo Toolbar. I decided to uninstall it. Their fix it did not work. When I tried to uninstall myself using their instructions it ended destroying my computer. It did not uninstall clean. I tried recovery and it failed and my computer would not start. Since it was new I was able to replace it. Also I am still waiting for response from them. It may work for others but I don't think I will download it any time soon. And I am using IE as my primary browser!

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Comment from sirpaul1 on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T23:16:59Z

Microsoft addresses this 'problem' within it's 'knowledge' base: www.microsoft.com/kb/957700. Apparently, sometimes you can use "Remove Programs" and sometimes you can't.

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Comment from Tom Russell on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T21:52:52Z

I had to do a system restore after I installed IE8 because it broke my CD/DVD device. It just erased it from my system. It wasn't displayed in "My Computer" and when I tried to find the device via Device Manager it showed it to have corrupt or missing drivers.

After I did the system restore back to the previous IE8 Beta I was using the CD/DVD device came back and I could access and use it again but now something is a little weird with IE8 Beta, it's just not the same as it was before.

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Comment from Pete Ross on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T21:48:43Z

I installee IE8 in January. Seemed to work fine and has some useful features. Then, I began to notice a failure: when selecting a page, it would not open unless I selected STOP and re-selected that page. I finally uninstalled it a week ago and reinstalled IE7. No problem now.

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Comment from Michael Castro on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T21:25:37Z

IE8, Oh noooooo!. I tried it and it messed up big time. I couldnt even access my own website. It seems there is a bug which stops some formats of webpages being viewed. It took a phone call ( yes believe or not there was a MS phone number in case you ran into trouble, now thats a first !). The man I spoke with was totally brilliant and got me back to IE7 withing 30 minutes ( I also had this on another computer and did two uninstalls at the same time which made me feel rather clever ! ). My advice is leave IE8 for a few months and let them fix it.

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Comment from Drivingguy on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T21:23:34Z

I returned home after a trip and found a message from Microsoft saying Ie8 was ready for downloading. So I downloaded it, My computer was basically unusable, would not reset, would not run Ie8 or any Ie, I was basically off line. Called Microsoft, after many hours on the phone talking to a tech in India, we finally got it all working great. Now Ie 8 is working great no complaints. Not a good experience

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Comment from poppa john on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T21:11:13Z

I am sooo new to Ask Leo that I am just breaking the surface. I too downloaded IE 8. I immediately infected my computer with AOL as my default home page. I had to find out how to remove it...but I could not. I went back to Firefox as my home page. I just wont use IE until I can get rid of AOL. Any suggestions?

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Comment from David on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T21:09:43Z

It ran OK for me but did NOT display properly a simple website that I put together using the website builder in MS Publisher 2003. Bits missing all over the place, including the page navigation bar (REALLY useful - not!)
http://tinyurl.com/clvhqb
and borders vanished. After quizzing various forums, I have found various work-arounds to do in Publisher to make the site show more-or-less properly, but a lot of fiddling around involved.
http://tinyurl.com/cxlzbo
I understand that there are loads of major sites that don't display properly in IE8, either.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072
If you want to try it as a stand-alone, this is an interesting concept:
http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

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Comment from Gigi on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T20:52:02Z

I've installed it the day it appeared, not because i would use it - i stopped using IE since 2002, switched to Opera - but because is more secure than IE7.

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Comment from RJ on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T17:52:16Z

I really dont like internet explorer and I think Mozilla is better. The best thing to do is keep your computer upto date and go head download IE 8 but dont use it. Just use Mozilla, also make sure that you have internet security such as a firewall and Anti Virus installed in your computer. If you have all this then you should be fine.

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Comment from Phil Schelin on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T17:20:51Z

My experience differs for the reason to install IE8. I downloaded Visual Basic and then lost IE7.
After many attempts to uninstall and reinstall IE I gave in and contacted IE support .
While I learned a lot and had access to great tools I ended up late last night removing every byte found on IE and started over .
The end result I was able to install IE 8 and agree it performs as well as Firefox ..

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Comment from janice pieper on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T16:06:26Z

i am not very computer ilerate and i have Ie8, so exactly what is it breaking?and by the way i love your web site Leo and will be e-mailing it to my sister and son !

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Comment from Pauline Miles on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:53:24Z

I downloaded IE8 but I didn't like it. I deleted it with Add and Remove and reinstalled IE7. Now I am a very happy bunny! P.

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Comment from Will Sanders on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:50:51Z

There is compatibility between MS Publisher and IE8, websites made with MS Publisher don't have navigation buttons anymore, i try to make contact with MS but till now no answer.

Will

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Comment from Tahoe Joe on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:46:44Z

I've installed IE8 on four machines and experienced problems ( slow startups, IE8 freezes, and not being able to access web pages) on two of the older XP machines ( P4 1.8 and Celeron 2.4). Uninstalled and went back to IE7 w/o a problem on both of those machines. Seems to be working OK on both a MSI Wind netbook and newer Vista machine. BTW, IE8 can be uninstalled form sp3 as long as you didn't install it before installing sp3.

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Comment from Bob Fisher on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:39:09Z

I installed IE8 on Vista on a 32 & 64 bit machine and on an XP machine and am very sorry I did. All 3 versions cannot display a second page either within the home page or another one. Get "An unexplained error was encountered" and IE8 cycles back to the previous page. Its useless!

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Comment from Robert Coley on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:32:53Z

I have no problems with IE8 and it looks good and feels good

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Comment from David on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:32:41Z

I installed IE8 beta a couple of months ago and it broke something. Unlike IE7, IE8 cannot be uninstalled if you have installed SP3. Uninstalling SP3 was non-trivial. then I uninstalled IE8, then reapplied SP3, then reapplied all security patches released since last spring. Since I only use IE for Windows maintenance, I will stick with IE7.

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Comment from juditn on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:25:00Z

I installed IE8 and am very satisfied with it. It causes no problems at all. I consider now IE8 as good as Firefox 3. I returned to IE8 because most vendors on the Internet require me to have it.

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Comment from Larry Farr on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T13:20:17Z

I foolishly downloaded IE8 - and then it would not open at all. It took some doing to get my computer back to IE6 - and then upgrade back to IE7. I now use Google Chrome. All I really want is a browser that is fairly safe and does not clog my system. Asking a lot right?

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Comment from Marcia Haines on 2009-04-04

2009-04-04T15:30:32Z

A good friend of mine who is also one of your subscribers knew that I had recently installed Internet Explorer 8 and that all kinds of things happened afterwards so she sent me the link where you were talking about this subject. Upon installation of IE8, my computer slowed to a crawl so after a few days, I uninstalled IE 8 and now many of my programs won't work without all these different windows popping up and things trying to install. It's maddening! We ran all sorts of diagnostics on the computer afterwards and found 1500 problems that can't be fixed. The computer was working fine before that so I should have used the philosophy "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" I have ended up having to order a new computer. I wouldn't recommend IE 8 to anyone!

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Comment from tony on 2009-04-03

2009-04-04T06:39:55Z

I installed IE8 as well and have had know problems of course i don't use it much lol.

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Comment from D Money on 2009-04-03

2009-04-03T18:19:23Z

I installed IE8 when it first released. I have had no issues with it, nothing has "broken". Speed is good and I like some of the new features, my favorite being able to select text, right click and search.

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Comment from John Clark on 2009-04-03

2009-04-03T18:17:55Z

So if someone has installed IE8 without doing a backup first, is there a way of removing it and restoring PC to original state?

Apparently that's the problem that many people are having. If there is (check add/remove programs), it doesn't always work.

- Leo
04-Apr-2009

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Comment from vincent on 2009-04-03

2009-04-03T16:55:49Z

I agree with Leo. Wait!

I must of course point out that there are alternatives to IE (any version).

I do webprogramming for a living and from experience I can tell you that IE, in general, is slow compared to, for instance firefox.

There's a lot of reading material about this online, so I won't go too much into detail, but unless you need specific content that will only work with IE (for instance the windowsupdate functionality on the microsoft website, certain online virusscanner tools, etc.), you would be better off installing one of these alternatives.

Personally I only use IE to make sure the stuff I write will work with it.

For everything else I use firefox.
Makes for a much more pleasant browsing experience.

my two cents ;-)

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