About as stable as the NY stock exchange... [modified]
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.. is my system after isntalling IE 8 RC1. And uninstalling it seems to have made things worse!! Release candidate?? What a bloody joke! :mad: I'd expect issues from a beta, but not RC. I'm running XP SP2, and it seemed to install fine (over IE6). Rebooted and ran it fine. At some stage Windows locked up in a big way. Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does). Also broken FTP client, and can't kill the process, and a few other oddities. So decided to uninstall, and now when I open My Computer I just get a white window which doesn't respond! Trying to open IE after uninstall does nothing, although process is there, but can't be killed :wtf: WTF Microsoft?!? X| Here's hoping SP3 install resurrects what appears to be quite a major corruption. And it points *VERY* strongly to being caused by IE 8. So to anyone considering the install - be aware of the risks. *EDIT* Follow-up: SP3 upgrade didn't seem to help. Restarting would hang trying to end some process DLACTRL. So uninstalled Sonic DLA and things seem to be back to normal so far. (I've had it installed for ages - the IE8 install must have corrupted it or caused some constant deadlock with it).
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken
modified on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:35 PM
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.. is my system after isntalling IE 8 RC1. And uninstalling it seems to have made things worse!! Release candidate?? What a bloody joke! :mad: I'd expect issues from a beta, but not RC. I'm running XP SP2, and it seemed to install fine (over IE6). Rebooted and ran it fine. At some stage Windows locked up in a big way. Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does). Also broken FTP client, and can't kill the process, and a few other oddities. So decided to uninstall, and now when I open My Computer I just get a white window which doesn't respond! Trying to open IE after uninstall does nothing, although process is there, but can't be killed :wtf: WTF Microsoft?!? X| Here's hoping SP3 install resurrects what appears to be quite a major corruption. And it points *VERY* strongly to being caused by IE 8. So to anyone considering the install - be aware of the risks. *EDIT* Follow-up: SP3 upgrade didn't seem to help. Restarting would hang trying to end some process DLACTRL. So uninstalled Sonic DLA and things seem to be back to normal so far. (I've had it installed for ages - the IE8 install must have corrupted it or caused some constant deadlock with it).
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken
modified on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:35 PM
Ashley van Gerven wrote:
Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does).
Normally? Killing the Explorer process is something you do often?
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does).
Normally? Killing the Explorer process is something you do often?
I do it quite a lot actually, well on my laptop at least. It's an old one and whenever I have to run a program or game that's a bit to heavy for it I just close every process I can including explorer. The program / game runs fine then. But I agree it's not the perfect solution :)
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does).
Normally? Killing the Explorer process is something you do often?
Graham Bradshaw wrote:
Normally? Killing the Explorer process is something you do often?
You don't? I'm always having to kill it both at home and at work when it stops responding and the taskbar goes invisible etc (more so at work, maybe because of network drives, domain, etc?)
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does).
Normally? Killing the Explorer process is something you do often?
Yep, end explorer.exe and then go File > New task and type 'explorer' and run that (from the task manager as you know). It reinitializes the taskbar etc.
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.. is my system after isntalling IE 8 RC1. And uninstalling it seems to have made things worse!! Release candidate?? What a bloody joke! :mad: I'd expect issues from a beta, but not RC. I'm running XP SP2, and it seemed to install fine (over IE6). Rebooted and ran it fine. At some stage Windows locked up in a big way. Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does). Also broken FTP client, and can't kill the process, and a few other oddities. So decided to uninstall, and now when I open My Computer I just get a white window which doesn't respond! Trying to open IE after uninstall does nothing, although process is there, but can't be killed :wtf: WTF Microsoft?!? X| Here's hoping SP3 install resurrects what appears to be quite a major corruption. And it points *VERY* strongly to being caused by IE 8. So to anyone considering the install - be aware of the risks. *EDIT* Follow-up: SP3 upgrade didn't seem to help. Restarting would hang trying to end some process DLACTRL. So uninstalled Sonic DLA and things seem to be back to normal so far. (I've had it installed for ages - the IE8 install must have corrupted it or caused some constant deadlock with it).
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken
modified on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:35 PM
[nonesense rant] The stock exchange actually is stable. It was around 8K before the stock market's false rise due to the dot com boom. This is just a time when things get brought back to reality, and people realize that they are supposed to live WITHIN their means. [/nonesense rant]
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.. is my system after isntalling IE 8 RC1. And uninstalling it seems to have made things worse!! Release candidate?? What a bloody joke! :mad: I'd expect issues from a beta, but not RC. I'm running XP SP2, and it seemed to install fine (over IE6). Rebooted and ran it fine. At some stage Windows locked up in a big way. Killing explorer.exe didn't help (normally does). Also broken FTP client, and can't kill the process, and a few other oddities. So decided to uninstall, and now when I open My Computer I just get a white window which doesn't respond! Trying to open IE after uninstall does nothing, although process is there, but can't be killed :wtf: WTF Microsoft?!? X| Here's hoping SP3 install resurrects what appears to be quite a major corruption. And it points *VERY* strongly to being caused by IE 8. So to anyone considering the install - be aware of the risks. *EDIT* Follow-up: SP3 upgrade didn't seem to help. Restarting would hang trying to end some process DLACTRL. So uninstalled Sonic DLA and things seem to be back to normal so far. (I've had it installed for ages - the IE8 install must have corrupted it or caused some constant deadlock with it).
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken
modified on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:35 PM
I seem to recall reading that IE8 could NOT be uninstalled w/o trashing Windows. If I recall correctly it said you would have to reinstall Windows when the final IE8 release came out! Can't find a reference at the moment, but that was why I decided not to try IE8. Good Luck
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I seem to recall reading that IE8 could NOT be uninstalled w/o trashing Windows. If I recall correctly it said you would have to reinstall Windows when the final IE8 release came out! Can't find a reference at the moment, but that was why I decided not to try IE8. Good Luck
I read something like that too... It was talking about Win XP SP3 though, not SP2. And it actually caused issues soon after installing.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken