Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3 — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:02:50 GMT

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Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

beqiraj.net — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:58:17 GMT

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Glen Fingerholes — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:43:44 GMT

I read somewhere that SP3 removes the "Address Bar" option from Explorer as an available toolbar. Is this true and is there any reason why someone who had it turned on would still have it after SP3 (because I do)?

That seems kind of broken to me, because if I ever accidentally get rid of it, It will probably take awhile and involve registry editing to get it back!

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

johnvig — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:55:48 GMT

today i downloaded windows updates & windows xp service pack 3 and it totally crashed my system. i lost all my itunes and updates, documents, etc.

one big way to ruin my day!!!!

BIG MISTAKE!! Microsoft you s*ck!

Next time we buy a mac!

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Vincenzo Di Russo [MVP IE] — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:55:36 GMT

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Andrey Moraru — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:47:13 GMT

I wonder if I would have any problems with my IE after I will move on to SP3. Still don't know if it's worth that.

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

AJenbo — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:48:19 GMT

Johnvig you are in the wrong section.

Also have you considered that it might be a fault in iTunes?

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

AJenbo — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:52:05 GMT

Glen Fingerholes: I still have my address bar and removing it wouldn't make any science imo. If you do loos it you just have to right click on the bar area and and activate it to get it back. In any case this is not related to IE7.

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Vincenzo Di Russo [MVP IE] — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:41 GMT

Glen Fingerholes,

See this archived discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/msg/00363d7416c9fd5a

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Gis Bun — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:12:54 GMT

"Next time we buy a mac!" - Perfect English!

Too bad there isn't an official way to incorporate the branded IE7 intp SP3 directly.

re: Installing Branded IE7... omg? who still does this? seriously? branded browsers is so 1996!

Are you serious? — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:19 GMT

Are you serious?

Who still uses a branded browser from the 1990's era?

I haven't seen (anywhere) a branded version of Netscape, IE, nada for over 5 years!

Now, on to real issues. In IE7 I can load up IE, paste a URL in the address bar and press enter long before IE finishes loading.

(a) IE is slower than molasses when initializing... (b) When IE finally does get ready, it puts a MODAL alert up with the *WRONG* title "Address Bar" and claims with the error icon that it can't load the page I typed in the location bar, even though it would work 100% fine if IE was actually ready. (c) After the annoying, wrong, and unnecessary alert, IE stuffs my "home" page back in the location bar (in my case "about:blank")

So now, I have to re-click in the location bar to give it focus, and re-paste in the URL I want to go to, and press Enter again.

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This issue is related to another annoyance on loading, in that if your home page is an actual page (e.g. http://www.digg.com/) or even ("about:blank") IE Insists on loading the page on browser start *REGARDLESS* of how slap happy I get with the ESCAPE key, or get trigger happy on the STOP icon.

If you seriously want to win back a single user that has jumped ship to Safari, Firefox or Opera you HAVE GOT TO GET USABILITY IN IE FIXED.

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Nicholas — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:48:26 GMT

Why is half the article in green? did you forget to close a font tag? So much for standards!

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Teresa — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:57:43 GMT

I just want to be able to use IE7 with XP Pro SP3 - Why did you take it away???? What do I need to do to get it back???

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Mr X — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:08:17 GMT

Are you supposed to run this new(er) IEAK7 on a winxp sp3 client when creating the rollout package?? The ie7 deploy docs (IE7Deploy.doc) only states sp1, sp2 as options on the client, so is it safe to build on a sp3 machine??

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Mr X — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:10:45 GMT

Are you supposed to run this new(er) IEAK7 on a winxp sp3 client when creating the rollout package?? The ie7 deploy docs (IE7Deploy.doc) and the IEAK docs only states sp1, sp2 as options for the client, so is it safe to build on a sp3 machine??

SP3 totally crashed my PC- Thanks, Microsoft!!!

jeffgranger — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:13:29 GMT

70 hours ago (and still counting) I made the dreadful mistake of assuming that Microsoft knew what they were doing and trusted them to install Service Pack 3 to my XP Home via Windows Update. What a monumental error. About an hour and a half into the process, I began to get an endless succession of what ended up being over 100 error messages. As soon as I clicked OK on one, another would appear. Errors of which I saw a great many repetitions with minor variations include the following:

RUNDLL32.EXE - EXECUTION ERROR - The instruction at 0x00ac371e referenced memory at 0x00ba32b0. The memory could not be "read". Click OK to terminate the program.

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APPLICATION ERROR - MyCmdRun.exe

The instruction at 0x0089fa87 referenced memory at 0xddc20074. The memory could not be "read".

Trying to write down all of the errors I saw would have been ridiculous, given the sheer number of them.

After over a hundred consecutive error messages with no sign that they would ever go away and allow the update to resume, I held down the power button to turn off the PC. As it rebooted, the PC went into an automated "Recovery Mode" (that name may vary slightly), working at the pace of molasses running uphill. One phase of that lasted well over a day, in which it appeared to copy every file in Windows and I386 directories, and some Program Files directories, including subdirectories, at the agonizingly slow rate of two files or so per minute. Keep in mind that these were many thousands of files.

Other equally slow phases of this recovery mode since this disaster happened include “Updating registry” and “Running processes after uninstall”. For somewhere around 30 to 34 hours now, it has been in a phase called “Performing cleanup”. I am trying to trust (although trust of anything Microsoft-related comes hard at this point) that it is really progressing, since I hear brief but distinct hard disk access noises periodically. I figure that if I interrupt this, I am definitely left with a wrecked PC, and if I don’t, I simply MAY end up with a wrecked PC.

So, congratulations, Microsoft. You have won another convert to Macs.

If anyone out there knows anything more about this particular problem, I would surely appreciate hearing from you.

Thank you.

re: Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3

Alex — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:30:02 GMT

I've installed Branded IE7 on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and it gives me an error message when i'm trying to access http://www.cosmet.org

What can it be???