4 posts tagged “ie7”

a colleague was asking me why he could not download using ie7, that happens after he restored from a backup...

i could not determine any cause other than the ie7 was "corrupted" or registry entry was "corrupted".

he came back and let me know that the download problem was because somehow the location of the ie temp folder had been moved...he has not identify what could have moved that folder though.

updates Mar 21 2:10pm - it's interesting, but this morning, the IE7 did not crash when i accessed the documents from the SharePoint portal...hmmm...

when i was still on Windows XP, Office 2007 beta 2 Technical Refresh, i do not recall having any problem accessing a document in Sharepoint.

now that i'm on Vista, and Office 2007 trial, i just tried to open a word document (Office 2003 format) from Sharepoint, and it crashed IE7!

i'm not sure i could get my hands on another Vista machine (hopefully a clean install) and try it out...

is there a problem?

if you had upgraded to IE7, take a look into C:\Windows\ie7 folder, and you might find plenty useless files with filename starting as regnnnnn, example reg00001. There are about 860 of these on my laptop. They appears to be registry backup files or something. I believe you can also find such files in those $NTUNINSTALLxxx$ folders. There are occassions which I would also remove those $NtUNINSTALLxxx$ folders, so for now, i'll just remove the regnnnnn files from the ie7 folder and see how...

Microsoft has always claimed that they eat their own dog food, but in this case with IE7, it appears they had missed out on using IE7 with OWA!!

Since using IE7 beta 3, RC and now Final Release, using OWA has consistently crashed IE7.

At first I thought it could be my system problem, and I had expected the Final Release to address this issue. But I was to be disappointed...

IE7 was released via Windows Update, and since my company deploys OWA, I had alerted the exchange administrator and software controller about this.

Googled and found the following workaround: http://www.frameworkx.com/frameworkx/contentblogdetail.aspx?blog=57&id=464
I had tried it and was able to send emails in OWA with IE7, but I have not figure out if there's other impact...