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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! 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! 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! 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...

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! 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! 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...

Hi Everyone! Axel Rivera again from the IE Escalation team with another IE Enhanced security topic for your viewing pleasure! UPDATE : I have tested the .exe and .bat file that will disable IE Enhanced Security for both Windows 2003 and Windows...

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! 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, 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, 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! As many of you know, with the release of Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft made some changes to how IE7 uses FTP. It’s outlined in this KB article, Separation of Internet Explorer 7 from the Windows shell (KB928675) . Since then, I’ve seen...

To configure Internet Explorer security zones sites using group policy, we have two options: Internet Explorer Maintenance policy Windows 8 with Internet Explorer 10 deprecates IEM in favor of a more robust tool called Group Policy Preferences...

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...

Hi Everyone! Axel again, from the IE Escalation team, with another Group Policy pointer. Recently, I was asked to assist in disabling DEP (Data Execution Prevention) for Internet Explorer. This can be done from Group. The policy will allow you to...

You might remember a blog we posted back in December regarding Compatibility View in IE8. Well, we’ve come across some more interesting details and it directly effects the RC1 build. If you’ve read the IE Dev Blog regarding Compatibility View, then you...

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...

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...

Hi, Axel from the IE Escalation team again with a quick note on how to use a Microsoft Fix IT to remove IE 8 silently . First, I would like to thank the “Fix IT” team for quickly answering my questions about the tools functionality! When I first...

Hi everyone! Here is behavior difference between IE8 and IE7 that we’ve come across. Hopefully will provide some good insight for anyone seeing this behavior today… Right floated elements render differently in Internet Explorer 8 compared to how...

Hi everyone! IE Support is seeing a huge influx of issues with weird IE behaviors and failures coming in over the last two days. We are seeing IE crashes, IE simply unloading from memory, and even script errors on web application that have been working...

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...