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Hi everyone! My name is Anshu. I am a support engineer in the Internet Explorer Core team at Microsoft. Today in this blog I am going to talk about a change in Internet Explorer 8.0 with respect to a setting related to security zone called “Display...

Hi everyone! David Conner here.  I am a Senior Escalation Engineer on the IE Core and SDK team in Microsoft Support. If you’ve installed the IE 8 Beta builds or the Released build and tried to open a WebDAV share via the File | Open dialog, you may...

Hi everyone! Just a quick post to make you aware of a feature in IE7 that is not going to be included in IE 8. This pertains to the options IE7 provides you when closing out a multi-tabbed IE process. These check box options are available when unhidden...

Hello there! My name is Axel Rivera. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the IE Support Team. Of the past few weeks, many of my customers have come across this issue and so I thought this would be a blog that you might find worth while. ...

Hi everyone! We’ve got an emerging issue showing up in our support channels in where IE printing functionality (printing, print preview) fails on the Windows XP operating system. This issue is specific to IE7 and IE8 and we have only reproduced the...

Hi everyone! Shahinur again, with an IE8 topic this time… If you have been using IE7, you are probably used to all your tabs opening under the same iexplore.exe process. The only exception is if you are on a Windows Vista machine and you are moving...

Hi everyone! Veena again, back with a discussion on session management in IE8. Many application developers expect that they lose their session when they close the IE window. So when the user launches a new instance of IE, they expect that the user...

Hi everyone! With the release of IE 8, we felt that providing a little more detail around the different Compatibility Modes might be useful, so here goes! A fundamental problem discussed during each and every Internet Explorer release is balancing...

Hi everyone!   Let’s start off by providing a little history around the challenges seen with Protected Mode and Internet Explorer (first introduced with Internet Explorer 7).  In Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Internet Explorer 7 runs, by...

Hi Everyone, This is Bac Hoang with the IE Support Team. Today I want to discuss one of changes in IE8: Page Zoom. Traditionally, many existing web sites are coded to be displayed on a 96-DPI (dots per inch) display device. With fast growing technology...

Hi everyone! We’re seeing another emerging issue around Internet Explorer that we wanted to make you aware of… If you are seeing slow performance within Internet Explorer 8 (opening new tabs, for example), after just recently installing the latest...

Hi everyone! Axel here from the IE Escalation team with a scenario related to Security Warning - Unknown Publisher pop-up when executing a file that came from a non trusted source. Please note: The example below sets HIGH RISK files...

Hi everyone! We thought it might be a good idea to provide you folks a listing of KB articles relevant to IE 8: How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8? (KB957700) When you start Internet Explorer 8, it opens and then closes immediately...

Hi everyone, This is Shahinur again and I wanted to write about an important issue that could affect many of you who are hosting legacy VB controls on your web page. After installing the security update that released in February 2009, KB960715 (Update...

Hi everyone! Just a quick blog about another feature of Loosely Coupled IE (LCIE)… When using IE8, you may notice that a tab process does not exit right away when you close the Tab window or when IE navigates away from it (due to changing Mandatory...

Hello again, I spent a lot of time recently troubleshooting WPAD detection using DHCP 252 option. In doing so, the information I collected may be useful to those deciding how to implement proxy auto-discovery in corporate networks. Proxy Auto-Disover...

Paolo Severini, a developer from Microsoft's GPDE team in Europe has created a debugging tool to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code and is downloadable here . It can be installed as an Internet Explorer band and it is expressly designed to find memory...

Hi! It’s Veena Karanam again. I wanted to take some time to discuss another change regarding Internet Explorer 8. With IE7 on Windows Vista, any navigation between web sites operating under different integrity levels would cause the following dialog...

Hi, Axel Rivera again with information about IE Enhanced Security and how it could affect users when browsing from Terminal Servers. As many of you know, when you first install Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers, IE Enhanced security is enabled. Because Internet...

Hi everyone! We’ve had some requests come in asking for an ADM template that would give Administrators the option to Enable or Disable the “Check for publisher's certificate revocation” Internet Explorer option. In any event, here it is. Simply cut...

Hi everyone! Here’s an interesting bit of information for those tech geeks out there revolving around some of the changes in IE8 and loosely-coupled IE . Due to the changes in LCIE for IE8, it can be very challenging to determine which IE tabs belong...

Lately we’ve had to field some customer issues regarding failures when attempting to use FTM. I wanted to clarify that FTM is not part of Internet Explorer – it’s a separate download, located at http://transfers.ds.microsoft.com/ftm...

Hi everyone! Lots of stuff coming out today with the release of IE8 almost upon us. Here’s another FixIT from Microsoft to assist in solving some installation problems with trying to install the new browser. The .MSI package is called ResetSecuritySettingsBackToTheDefaults...

Hi everyone! Just in case you run into trouble using IE8, the FixIT team has provided an automated un-installer package to help you remove it from your system. The package is called UninstallIE8.MSI and is available here ! The complete details on this...

Hi everyone!   This is quick post but an important one.  The IE support team is seeing many issues coming in regarding this error when accessing secure web sites with Internet Explorer, after installing MS09-002 .  I wanted to take some...