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

[Joel Deutsch]

Lloyd,

I did not get any dialogues offering me options of the sort you mention 
during the install. Not that I noticed, anyway. So that remains mysterious 
to me. As for Microsoft switching my default search engine, I don't know. I 
still use Google as my home page, and that hasn't been altered without my 
knowing it. Let me go to any old Web site, press Control E, and see if 
Google still comes up as the search engine for that procedure, too. Hold on.

Nope. Google's still the search engine that comes up when I press Control E. 
So I don't think MS messed around with my preferences in any way at all as I 
installed IE 8 over IE 7. I've heard people talk about that sort of thing 
happening to them, but this isn't my fate, so that has nothing to do with 
what was bothering me. Which seems to be over, now that I clicked on that 
option to forget about that add-on when launching IE. The other messages 
aren't coming up.

Whatever. I've invested enough brain power in this, and you have, too. I 
hope you go on using Firefox with pleasure, and I'll stick with IE and hope 
it behaves normally from now on. The commands, now that I look around it, 
seem to really be about the same as IE7, which was indeed a change from the 
previous version, because of tab browsing and a couple of other changes. But 
I believe IE 8 is noteworthy for other improvements, having to do with 
security and page loading or something like that. Nothing an end user like 
me needs to fret about or learn anything new for.

Thanks for the moral support and the ideas,
joel
.detais
----- 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 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] IE 8: I installed, but have questions now


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.


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