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

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

I just went through the IE8 setup.  I hadn't gotten around to doing it until
now.

I have some DVD-related software on my Dell computer from Sonic Solutions,
and got the same complaints about Drive Letter Access, a program which can
treat your DVD drive like a conventional drive in Windows Explorer.  I also
told IE not to bother running the add-in instead of trying to find an
update.

There were several more screens of questions for installation, and I chose
the Custom rather than the Express so I would know what Microsoft was doing
to my browser.  I haven't used IE8 enough to know whether I made good
choices.  Someone on the Window-Eyes list in the past day noted that IE
tries to set Bing as your default search provider, which you probably would
get to with ctrl-E.  It may be worth looking through this pile of options at
some point, but perhaps you don't need to do it today.

Enjoy!

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
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> -----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 6:55 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] IE 8: I installed, but have questions now
> 
> 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.