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This is absurd
I really, really, really, really, really, really tried hard not to criticize
microsoft, becuase I know some of you worship Bill Gates as your God, but what just happened is beyond absurd. The world is in heap big trouble with Microsoft at the helm of the software industry. A little while ago, I got a notice that an update was ready. I didn't know why I received it, becuase my system was set to receive Automatic updates, and the caption on the notification said "Automatic Update". First what is automatic about an update that asks me? Someone out to knock Bill Gates on the head and ask, "Is anyone in there?". But that isn't the problem, just a prelude. I'm really the idiote for saying yes to the update. It was an Internet Exporer v7 update, or so it said. I said yes, then it asked me if I accept the license, and of course I did. The next thing I saw was that Internet Explorer V7 was being installed ( I had it installed over a month ago). Then it said it was uninstalling a previous version and I thought, Uh Oh!!!!!! And rightfully so. I was asked to restart my computer and naturally I couldn't ignor that request, becuase it kept coming back and bugging me. So I said yes, and nothing happened. So I tried to restart and it wouldn't. Finally after a several attempts I opened the task manager and dumped a bunch of programs then was able to restart. After I restated, I opened up IE and went to open a new tab and there weren't any. HUH, I asked myself? No tabs? I like tabs, what happened? This is what happened, the update uninstalled version 7 and installed version 6. Do I need to say any more? I can't, becuase there is no description suitable to describe this, except, HUH!!!!! I think Microsoft need some updating of personnel, starting with Bill Gates and continuing until the last programmer is booted. Keep the cleaning crew and the cafeteria staff. |
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This is absurd
Fine soap box speech. Now what exactly is your question?
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This is absurd
No Question, I just wanted to share.
"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message ... Fine soap box speech. Now what exactly is your question? |
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This is absurd
What's a beta? I wasn't informed that version 7 is a beta. I was available
on the Microsoft site as the new version. No beta involved. "Leythos" wrote in message .. . In article , says... I think Microsoft need some updating of personnel, starting with Bill Gates and continuing until the last programmer is booted. Keep the cleaning crew and the cafeteria staff. let's get this in perspective: 1) You installed a BETA product 2) You complain when you are using your computer and it alerts you that it's about to install updates while you are using your computer 3) The update is for a BETA product 4) Your BETA test machine doesn't perform properly What part of BETA don't you understand - if you are not prepared to deal with problems then don't run BETA software. If you are prepared to deal with problems associated with BETA software you should have posts your statements as "I've tried to install IE7 BETA update and I'm having problems". Your first paragraph makes you appear to be trolling. -- remove 999 in order to email me |
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This is absurd
Here is the download page.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...px?mg_ID=10010 I don't see the word Beta anywhere "Leythos" wrote in message .. . In article , says... I think Microsoft need some updating of personnel, starting with Bill Gates and continuing until the last programmer is booted. Keep the cleaning crew and the cafeteria staff. let's get this in perspective: 1) You installed a BETA product 2) You complain when you are using your computer and it alerts you that it's about to install updates while you are using your computer 3) The update is for a BETA product 4) Your BETA test machine doesn't perform properly What part of BETA don't you understand - if you are not prepared to deal with problems then don't run BETA software. If you are prepared to deal with problems associated with BETA software you should have posts your statements as "I've tried to install IE7 BETA update and I'm having problems". Your first paragraph makes you appear to be trolling. -- remove 999 in order to email me |
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This is absurd
Internet Explorer 7 was only released last week. If you installed it
over a month ago, you installed a beta version of it. Probably called "Release Candidate". In case you want to know what happened... - you have set automatic updates to ask you before installing or downloading. To change the setting to fully automatic, go to Control Panel, Automatic Updates and select the first choice (in bold). That choice is set by default, so you must have changed it at some point in time. - as you had installed a beta version of IE7, it had to be installed before the final version of IE7 could be installed. That meant that after the removal, your system was back to IE6. - The window that asked you to restart did say automatic updates in the dialog window and kept popping up. That was an update that is related to IE7, but not the setup program for IE7 (that is a different window and has a Restart button as well after it's done). When you clicked Restart Now and then proceeded to kill tasks, you effectively killed the IE7 setup program. Hence your computer ended up in a state where the beta of IE7 had been removed, but the final version had not been installed, because you didn't give the setup program the chance to. If you want IE7 back, download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "Mark A. Sam" wrote in message : What's a beta? I wasn't informed that version 7 is a beta. I was available on the Microsoft site as the new version. No beta involved. "Leythos" wrote in message .. . In article , says... I think Microsoft need some updating of personnel, starting with Bill Gates and continuing until the last programmer is booted. Keep the cleaning crew and the cafeteria staff. let's get this in perspective: 1) You installed a BETA product 2) You complain when you are using your computer and it alerts you that it's about to install updates while you are using your computer 3) The update is for a BETA product 4) Your BETA test machine doesn't perform properly What part of BETA don't you understand - if you are not prepared to deal with problems then don't run BETA software. If you are prepared to deal with problems associated with BETA software you should have posts your statements as "I've tried to install IE7 BETA update and I'm having problems". Your first paragraph makes you appear to be trolling. -- remove 999 in order to email me |
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This is absurd
"Mark A. Sam" wrote in message ... What's a beta? I wasn't informed that version 7 is a beta. I was available on the Microsoft site as the new version. No beta involved. If you're talking about IE 7, it needs a search function for the WEB PAGE CURRENT. I don't always want to search freekin' yahoo, I want to search the page I'm on somtimes. |
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This is absurd
The page where you downloaded your previous version of IE7 was a different
page. A month ago there were clear warnings about installing a beta product. -- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca Mark A. Sam wrote: Here is the download page. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...px?mg_ID=10010 I don't see the word Beta anywhere "Leythos" wrote in message .. . In article , says... I think Microsoft need some updating of personnel, starting with Bill Gates and continuing until the last programmer is booted. Keep the cleaning crew and the cafeteria staff. let's get this in perspective: 1) You installed a BETA product 2) You complain when you are using your computer and it alerts you that it's about to install updates while you are using your computer 3) The update is for a BETA product 4) Your BETA test machine doesn't perform properly What part of BETA don't you understand - if you are not prepared to deal with problems then don't run BETA software. If you are prepared to deal with problems associated with BETA software you should have posts your statements as "I've tried to install IE7 BETA update and I'm having problems". Your first paragraph makes you appear to be trolling. -- remove 999 in order to email me |
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This is absurd
The internet explorer download will first remove IE7 beta if you are using
that (you were). Then after a reboot, IE7 final should be installed. Then another reboot. Now, if you cleared out any temp files before you rebooted (many cleaning programs can be set up to do just this) the files needed to restart the install into IE7 final were likely deleted. Therefore, you will again have IE6. Try to reinstall IE7 final again. Reboot when told to. Don't wait. Don't clean out any temp files. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "Mark A. Sam" wrote in message ... I really, really, really, really, really, really tried hard not to criticize microsoft, becuase I know some of you worship Bill Gates as your God, but what just happened is beyond absurd. The world is in heap big trouble with Microsoft at the helm of the software industry. A little while ago, I got a notice that an update was ready. I didn't know why I received it, becuase my system was set to receive Automatic updates, and the caption on the notification said "Automatic Update". First what is automatic about an update that asks me? Someone out to knock Bill Gates on the head and ask, "Is anyone in there?". But that isn't the problem, just a prelude. I'm really the idiote for saying yes to the update. It was an Internet Exporer v7 update, or so it said. I said yes, then it asked me if I accept the license, and of course I did. The next thing I saw was that Internet Explorer V7 was being installed ( I had it installed over a month ago). Then it said it was uninstalling a previous version and I thought, Uh Oh!!!!!! And rightfully so. I was asked to restart my computer and naturally I couldn't ignor that request, becuase it kept coming back and bugging me. So I said yes, and nothing happened. So I tried to restart and it wouldn't. Finally after a several attempts I opened the task manager and dumped a bunch of programs then was able to restart. After I restated, I opened up IE and went to open a new tab and there weren't any. HUH, I asked myself? No tabs? I like tabs, what happened? This is what happened, the update uninstalled version 7 and installed version 6. Do I need to say any more? I can't, becuase there is no description suitable to describe this, except, HUH!!!!! I think Microsoft need some updating of personnel, starting with Bill Gates and continuing until the last programmer is booted. Keep the cleaning crew and the cafeteria staff. |
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This is absurd
Press CTRL-F.
Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR): http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "Dan" wrote in message m: "Mark A. Sam" wrote in message ... What's a beta? I wasn't informed that version 7 is a beta. I was available on the Microsoft site as the new version. No beta involved. If you're talking about IE 7, it needs a search function for the WEB PAGE CURRENT. I don't always want to search freekin' yahoo, I want to search the page I'm on somtimes. |
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