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Version: Internet Explorer 7
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Pros: Tabs, improved security, and printing options are long overdue, but welcome. Zoom feature is nice, loading and browsing are very quick.
Cons: Clumsy interface, with navigation buttons and menus on opposite sides.
Worse, however, is after I installed it, Flash content stopped working. I reinstalled Flash, still nothing. I removed IE7 and reverted back to version 6, still no good. Did a system restore, still no remedy.
Looks like the only way to get my PC back to its former healthy state is to reformat and reload... and I think I have IE7 to thank for that.
- 13 replies to this review
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I have had the same exact problem. Flash content is fine until you delete IE7 temporary files then the flash plug-in never works again! I have tried everything I know to do and nothing fixes the problem. Let me know if you find a solution other than formating the hard drive.
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still does not allow me to use Yahoo games properly although most of the other sites are now usable.
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still does not allow me to use Yahoo games properly although most of the other sites are now usable.
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It made my internet super slow I hate IE 7. I wish I had IE 6 again.
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I had the problem of the latest flash player suddenly not working in IE 6.
I kept reinstalling flash, but to no avail.
I then found an UNINSTALLER for the latest flash, and a flash 7 exe on the Adobe website.
Using the Flash 7 player took care of the problem, and continued to work even when I updated to IE7
However I still hate IE 6& 7 for it's overzealous security so I only use FIREFOX 2 exclusively
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I also had the same problem, I had to restore my computer and lost alot files. I couldn't print online coupons so I switch to firefox and it works great!!I would like to continue using IE but they need to fix the bugs..
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I downloaded IE7 and noticed after a couple of days how my computer had slowed right down and then stopped working all together. It just sat idle, I had to re-install windows and now I'm back to IE6 it works fine.
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I also installed IE7 there was some cool features but over all on the downside with unfixable Flash player problems and also experienced JAVA related issues.
I was able to uninstall IE7 and revert back to IE6. Here is what I did... After uninstalling IE7 I went to "add or remove programs", Click "Add or Remove Windows Components" Uncheck "Internet Explorer" then click "Next"... when the process finishes just RECHECK "Internet Explorer" and then click next, After the process finishes you should be back to IE6.
I hope this works for you as it did for me!
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i had an unrelated problem to flash not working n i ended up havin to download an uninstaller from the flash site to uninstall flash properly to then reinstall the latest flash for it to work properly so maybe it wasn't ie7's fault ?
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I have been using IE7 from Beta 2 Preview version ..... so altogether i have used 4 pre-release versions ....... and not a single time i had problems with flash content .....
see ur add-ons section ...... maybe u have disable flash activex .....
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After I installed IE7 earlier this week, Flash related content (Adobe Shockwave and Adobe Flash Player 9) still worked with no problems at all.
The problem is that either you might have used an outdated version of your Shockwave/Flash Player from Macromedia, installation of IE7 wasn't 100% sucessful or corrupt or there has been compatibility issues.
Reformatting your HD only resulted in loss of data and there would have been better ways to avoid that.
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The above takes you to the IE7 add-ons and amongst these is Adobe Flash layer which simply downloaded and installed to work with IE7..maybe I have this wrong but doesn't this answer the problem of not seeing Flash content.
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I understand fully your problems HuDu. IE7 RC1 messed up my computer beyond belief, system restore, unstalling or trying to as it wouldnt work, a completely useless microsoft team when i asked for help. Lets face it the only true real reason anyone needs Internet Explorer, is to get the updates for your Operating System as we all know how much microsoft needs them. In the end i had to fully reformat my pc, well laptop, only plus was i removed the partition-came like that, and on 80gb its not worth it. Personnally im a netscape 8.1 fan, but i do use opera and firefox as well, Microsoft will probably never catch up now.
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