[EIDXA] XP and IE 8.x

[Rick Hadley]

Running Firerfox 3.5 prevents all those problems.

Rick, W0FG

On 1/8/10, Arlyce and Mike Nowack <mnowack at adams.net> wrote:
>
>
> A few months back I inadvertently allowed Microsoft to upgrade my browser
> to
> v8.x on my main desktop running XP.  After that I had several problems, the
> most annoying was that after the upgrade two of my applications could not
> remember the passwords I had established for each application.  Most used
> of
> the two was Dreamweaver which could no longer store and remember the
> password to access the server on which the webpage I maintain was kept.  I
> had to reset the url and password every time I used Dreamweaver to update
> the remote site.  Very frustrating.  After several weeks of trying to
> figure
> out what was going on I found the clue on the Dreamweaver users' group
> site.
> I unloaded IE8.x and reinstalled IE7.x and all returned to normal.
>
> Now I'm getting weary of having to deny the upgrade to IE8.x that MS
> continues to try and force on me.  Every time there are XP upgrades to
> download I have to go to manual installation and uncheck the Upgrade to
> IE8.x box   UGH!
>
> Mike
>
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