[gui-talk] IE 8: I installed, but have questions now

[Joel Deutsch]

I've got auto updates turned on, although I use the option to notify me and 
let me choose whether or not to download and install. The notice comes up on 
my system tray list. I mean, I think it flashes briefly on the screen at 
first, but then I can always find it by pressing Insert F11.

But I'll go check the updates pages again, I guess. I just couldn't see 
anything listed there that needs to be downloaded, including anything to do 
with IE. But I'll look again.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] IE 8: I installed, but have questions now


The last time you ran MS updates, Before you installed IE 8, IE8-related
updates weren't necessary.  So the first thing I would do is run MS updates
as it is requesting, and see if anything needs to be updated.  IE8 does ask
a lot of questions on first install, and I should go back there and see what
it wants to do.  I don't remember whether I finished the process or not.
You can tell by this that I mostly use Firefox.


Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:59 PM
> To: GUI-Talk
> Subject: [gui-talk] IE 8: I installed, but have questions now
>
> Immediately after the install was done and my computer rebooted, I
> launched
> Internet Explorer and I'm perplexed by a bunch of dings and dongs and
> messages I guess I'm supposed to respond to.
>
> Basically, these messages keep coming up saying that this or that is
> incompatible with IE 8 and do I want to allow it to run anyway, or have IE
> look for updates, or whatever. I suppose these things that come up are
> add-ones, but I don't recognize any of them by name. I mean, I've never
> intentionally enabled or even familiarized myself with whatever it's
> talking
> about.
>
> and a  a message keeps coming up asking if I want to learn how to fix an
> incompatibility problem having to do with something called DRI, or drive
> access something or other, and I have no idea what it's talking about. It
> keeps taking me to a Microsoft Web page that's apparently full of
> information I'm supposed to understand in order to then do something or
> other. If I close this page in confusion, some other message comes up
> telling me something else is wrong. The messages that say I need to adjust
> my add-ons seem to be temporary, fleeting messages you'd have to see and
> click on with a mouse within seconds, but I think I heard I should open
> Tools and find the tab where I can do something with add-ons. I go there
> only to find it says all add-ons are disabled. I guess this is good, if it
> was the default setting?
>
> Does anyone have any idea what it is I'm experiencing? I thought IE8 would
> just install itself seamlessly over IE7 and any new features would be
> stuff
> I'd learn by looking at Anna Dresner's instructions. But it's more than
> that. It's all these incompatibility announcements. I have no idea what's
> going on.
>
> Advice? Help? I don't want to freak out and call my friend who's an IT
> professional to ruin his Saturday with his wife and come over to play with
> the browser and get it set up right. I'd be happy to fix up this stuff
> myself, but I have no idea what it's talking about.
>
> Help!
> P.S. At the end of the download and install procedure, the dialogue stayed
> on the screen for a long time (I'm partial and could see this happening)
> and
> seemed hung up about trying to search for and download IE updates, and
> finally after many minutes doing nothing it allowed me to finish and
> reboot,
> advising me to launch the browser immediately and check for updates in the
> Tools menu. But when I did, all I got was the good old MS updates page,
> not
> something specific to the browser, and by this time I was just too baffled
> to figure out if there was some update for IE waiting to be downloaded and
> installed. So I just got out of there. I don't know if this has anything
> at
> all to do with the trouble I describe above. I'm just sayhing, the
> download
> and install dialogue made this announcement that it could not install
> updates and I should take care of that myself, but I don't think there are
> any updates to be had, anyway.
>
> Ack. Going nuts, here.
>
>


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