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Old October 27th, 2006, 01:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark A. Sam
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Default 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.


  #2  
Old October 27th, 2006, 01:48 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Pegasus \(MVP\)
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Posts: 27
Default This is absurd

Fine soap box speech. Now what exactly is your question?


  #3  
Old October 27th, 2006, 01:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark A. Sam
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Posts: 40
Default 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?




  #4  
Old October 27th, 2006, 02:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark A. Sam
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Posts: 40
Default 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.

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  #5  
Old October 27th, 2006, 02:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark A. Sam
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Default 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



  #6  
Old October 27th, 2006, 02:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Patrick Schmid [MVP]
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Default 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

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"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


  #7  
Old October 27th, 2006, 03:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Dan
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Posts: 20
Default 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.


  #8  
Old October 27th, 2006, 03:02 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Kerry Brown
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Posts: 12
Default 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.

--
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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



  #9  
Old October 27th, 2006, 03:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Richard Urban
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Posts: 20
Default 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.

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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.



  #10  
Old October 27th, 2006, 03:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general,microsoft.public.access,microsoft.public.access.forms,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.outlook.installation,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Patrick Schmid [MVP]
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Posts: 1,784
Default 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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