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

[Joel Deutsch]

Lloyd,

that error message I just copied and pasted into my last reply? Well, this 
time when I launched IE, that's the page that came up instead of my home 
page. But this time I arrowed down and read through the instructions. It 
claims that this error message has to do with some roxio CD or .mp3 burning 
program, although I don't have any such product on my computer. I even 
checked in add/remove programs.

But anyway, it said next time the message came up, take the option to open 
IE 8 without this add-on, so somehow I got that dialogue again and did what 
they said to, and exited IE, even rebooted, launched IE, and now that isn't 
happening anymore. There was some reference also to sonic something or 
other, and I have some applet called Sonic Record Now! on my computer, came 
loaded with it, but I'm not getting this message anymore. I don't know.

Weird.
Reocrd fo ssiad, prouduct propram,
----- 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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