Email conversation
| From | Hagen Hoden |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | IE7 Beta 1 - "offline mode" messes up windows |
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| Date | 15 December 2005 17:27 |
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Hi there!
Maybe you should update your manual on IE7 Beta 1 offline.
In September I came across that guideline
(http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ie7.html#packageie7). Everything went fine and
I was glad I didn't have to install it to have a quick look at it. I thought
"this way, it won't mess up my system".
That assumption proved to be more than wrong by now.
This week, I installed the latest cumulative update for IE6 SP2 english on
that very system, that's WindowsXP-KB905915-x86-ENU.exe. After rebooting,
IE6 is broken, it will still get links you click on, but it will freeze if
you type anything into the adress bar and hit enter - weird!
So I used filemon from sysinternals to investigate and found out that while
it freezes, it does hundreds of lookups for ieframe.dll which is a component
of IE7 to no avail.
So I investigated a little more... I can reproduce the problem on every xp
sp2 machine, that I ever used IE7 on in offline mode (needless to say, that
if you install IE7 and then uninstall it and then install
WindowsXP-KB905915-x86-ENU.exe, everything is fine with IE6 :(
Fact is: When you start iexplore.exe (IE7, offline) for the first time, it
will do thousands of attempts to write something into the registry, the
offline method is not clean at all.
At least you can uninstall WindowsXP-KB905915-x86-ENU.exe and everything is
back to normal.
Regards
Hagen
| From | Me |
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| To | Hagen Hoden |
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| Subject | Re: IE7 Beta 1 - "offline mode" messes up windows |
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| Date | 16 December 2005 09:13 |
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Hagen,
> Fact is: When you start iexplore.exe (IE7, offline) for the first
> time, it will do thousands of attempts to write something into the
> registry, the offline method is not clean at all.
ouch! thanks for the investigation - I will put a warning on my site.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/