After upgrading to Vista premium home on my Dell laptop my IE 7 stopped working. I still can connect to the internet through Mozilla and upgrades for the various programs connect to the internet and go forward without a hitch, but I can't get IE to work.
As a separate issue I noticed that the strength of my wireless connection went from excellent to good. During installation it eliminated the driver that came with my Intel pro and presumably replaced it with a compatible one but the signal is definitely weaker.
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vista premium home upgrade made my IE 7 unworkable.
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i had to turn that off to do practically anything in ie7 under vista.
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You are correct. With protected mode shut off my IE now works. That is absurd, that Mozilla works perfectly with Vista but not their own program. Is everyone having this problem? Why are there not more postings about this? Only thing is how safe am I with IE in not protected state. I think I will work in Mozilla until there is a fix. Or is there a fix? You can't download IE updates with Mozilla. Anyway thanks
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i don't fully understand what the heck's going on with protected mode. i know it blocks downloads from redirects (you asked for xyz.htm and are redicted to abc.zip) and javascript, but it's way too restrictive for my tastes.
as for vulnerability, you're probably a bit safer in regular mode under vista than ie7 on xp. you'll still get warnings about installing software but the uac will prompt you if some sneaky stuff tries to install itself.
after you've loaded up ie7 with your favorite add-ons (google toolbar, flash, etc.) you can probably turn protected mode back on.
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Mine was already laoded with everything (left over from its previous incarnation on XP). But no, when I tried to turn protected back on IE once again would not work. Nor by the way, does my virus protection from F security that goes with Charter Cable work(or it says it is incompatible) Why didn't some one warn us before we moved to the vista upgrade? I still want to know whether I can uninstall the IE and try a fresh download
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protected mode is just your mother who won't let you go outside and play. reinstalling it won't change protected mode's behavior.
f-secure has not been updated to work under vista. vista's incompatibility with all xp targetted ant-virus products was well publicized.
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