I've narrowed it down to IE8 on my main box. Chrome works, but I hate Chrome, and IE works on other machines.

So I want to start from scratch with IE...but can't figure how to uninstall/reinstall it. Is it as simple as turning IE8 off in the Control Panel and then downloading a copy from MS? Or can one actually uninstall in and then reinstall it?

Help me, EC, you're my only hope.

I dunno, never tried it myself. Sorry.

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 04-19-2010 at 04:41 PM.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

Sorry I can't help more. IE's been so buggy for me that I just went straight Firefox and never looked back.

What is the issue, exactly? Is it possible that it's a proxy settings issue? Do you use this machine to access a closed network?

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 04-20-2010 at 10:59 AM.

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Bent over the coffee table, Ghost of Forums Past squealed:
I know this is probably a stupid question, but did you go to Tools->Internet Options->General->Browsing History->Delete to clear your cache yet?

What is the issue, exactly? Is it possible that it's a proxy settings issue? Do you use this machine to access a closed network?

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Yeah, I've cleared the caches and cookies both manually and from the menu, as well as tried various settings with the history.

The issue is worst with the Amazon page: when I log in, it won't remember my cookie between page refreshes and it sends me into an infinite sign in loop every time I try to download something for my Kindle. I don't have the problem either with other machines and IE, or with Chrome on this machine. It just started happening one day. Less annoyingly, I've also had troubles with IE remembering cookies from other sites, but oddly enough I was able to fix that by keeping the History set to at least one day.

I have both the 64-bit (useless) IE and 32-bit version installed...maybe it's confusing itself? Nothing within IE seems to work, so I'm hoping to simply delete and reinstall it, but can't figure out how. sadf

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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Kaglaaz How'ler gently hums:
What's the chance you've got Microsoft antivirus? That thing is the worst! Clears all sorts of logins/cookies and the real joke is I couldn't watch my Digital Recordings from my PC on my 360 because it was blocking the connection for some odd reason.

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I use Kaspersky...but I should probably run through the billion settings on that, too. I've been using it for years, though, and never had a problem.

Install Firefox.

<-- is a MSCSE

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Blindy. is attacking the darkness!
Uninstall Explorer.

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Bloodsage has been nominated for the position of Voice In My Head.
So I want to start from scratch with IE...but can't figure how to uninstall/reinstall it.

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Previously on Planet Blindy....
MSCSE

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However, the system behind internet explorer can never truly be "uninstalled", it's wholly integrated into the operating system. Unchecking Internet explorer in system components simply removes the shell. I am not entirely sure if you will be able to reset cookie settings by removing and re-adding the shell, those settings live in a somewhat gray area between IE and Windows.

What I'm hearing, though, is that installing a new version over the old one is about the only recourse.

Edit: is there a way, and would it potentially help, to get rid of the 64-bit version of IE (which is useless anyway)?

Bloodsage fucked around with this message on 04-21-2010 at 01:38 PM.

Oh, and you said you disliked chrome, you didn't say "all other browsers," and frankly, Firefox and Internet Explorer are so identical in capability and design that aside from the name of the favorites menu and the logo on the program I do not understand what you could possibly dislike.

But using Internet Explorer is like having unprotected sex with the internet. If you visit something dirty, it's got direct access to vital core parts of your windows installation. It is a universally bad idea, and I can not in good conscious offer you computer advise for it without warning you how terrible of an idea it is to continue using it, even if for whatever reason you "like" it.

Blindy fucked around with this message on 04-21-2010 at 01:47 PM.

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Quoth Blindy:
Try creating a new user account on your box and testing IE inside that account. That will tell you if it's a setting or something system based. I don't think you're going to get anything out of re-installing it, the security settings are not something that will be removed or in any way effected by IE being installed or not, they are system wide and based on user policy.

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Good tip--we make progress!

When I log into the admin account, it works like a charm. I'm starting to suspect Kaspersky at this point, though I'm unsure which setting would cause this particular cookie amnesia. I've already tried resetting IE's settings to default, with no result.

So...anyone use Kaspersky and have insight into what might cause this kind of buffoonery with IE but not Chrome? Alternatively, if it turns out to be a problem with Kaspersky, what is a good commercial replacement for Kaspersky Internet Security?

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Bloodsage says ta-ma-to, I say To-ma-to:
Good tip--we make progress!

When I log into the admin account, it works like a charm. I'm starting to suspect Kaspersky at this point, though I'm unsure which setting would cause this particular cookie amnesia. I've already tried resetting IE's settings to default, with no result.

So...anyone use Kaspersky and have insight into what might cause this kind of buffoonery with IE but not Chrome? Alternatively, if it turns out to be a problem with Kaspersky, what is a good commercial replacement for Kaspersky Internet Security?

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I am not familiar with Kaspersky, I would recommend AVG, it's always treated me right.

However, it's possible that you've somehow lost write-access to the cookies location under your account. Verify that you can make a .txt file in the folder located at %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low .

Blindy fucked around with this message on 04-26-2010 at 09:59 AM.

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Maradon! had this to say about Knight Rider:
I browse bareback.

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Oh yeah. Nothing to get in the way of the action, feels great doesn't it?

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Karnaj had this to say about Robocop:
I would say that I browse bareback too, but all my machines run Linux(I've stopped playing computer games altogether, so), so I dunno if that really counts. I guess it does.

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To run with the metaphor for a while, that would be like going bareback, but with some form of immunization to all currently known STDs.

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Quoth Blindy:
I am not familiar with Kaspersky, I would recommend AVG, it's always treated me right.

However, it's possible that you've somehow lost write-access to the cookies location under your account. Verify that you can make a .txt file in the folder located at %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low .

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Verified that I can write to the cookies folder.

Also, just for the fun of it, uninstalled Kaspersky to no effect.

Also also, I created another user account and it doesn't have the same problem with the Amazon web site. Strangely, Amazon's web site seems the only one to misbehave now. Giving the current login account Admin privileges didn't help, either.

Now I'm starting to think I need to nuke the whole profile and start over. What a pain in the ass.

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And now, we sprinkle Blindy liberally with Old Spice!
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is fsking hot.

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I've been holding off on pushing the upgrade button just so it won't take forever to download all the new packages.

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From the book of Bloodsage, chapter 3, verse 16:
Verified that I can write to the cookies folder.

Also, just for the fun of it, uninstalled Kaspersky to no effect.

Also also, I created another user account and it doesn't have the same problem with the Amazon web site. Strangely, Amazon's web site seems the only one to misbehave now. Giving the current login account Admin privileges didn't help, either.

Now I'm starting to think I need to nuke the whole profile and start over. What a pain in the ass.

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You might check in IE's security settings to see if some variety of exception was made that blocks Amazon's cookies; a similar examination of Amazon itself, if possible, might be prudent.

Alternatively, set Firefox + Locationbar^2 + Glasser + Tab Mix Plus against resistance to change. Visually, that combination of addons makes FF pretty much indistinguishable from IE; a wee bit of tweaking through Tab Mix Plus makes it behave pretty much the same as well. I could set up FF that way on my grandparents' computer, change the icon and name to match IE, and they'd never notice; hell, I've actually done that for my wife and a couple of her friends.

Since it worked fine for weeks after my clean Win7 install, I suspect either a security patch to IE or Win7 or one of the updates to Kaspersky tweaked something that caused it...there just doesn't seem to be a way to figure out what happened, and unistalling Kaspersky hasn't helped.

sadf

I'll nuke the profile and start over this weekend if I have time.

I added the --bookmarks-menu option to the shortcut and now it's even usable.

And any alleged speed increase is irrelevant until and unless I move somewhere where the intarweb is fully functional. I'm lucky to get download speeds above 200k.

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And coming in at #1 is Greenlit with "Reply." I'm Casey Casem.
I thought Europe had a pretty good broadband network in place?

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You thought wrong.

Actually, on the whole, it's pretty good, especially when you compare rural broadband penetration over there with over here. However, since their cities are ancient, it's difficult to run to the requisite infrastructure, especially if buildings are historical landmarks or what have you.

Japan has the easy leg-up, I guess, given that some of their infrastructure is barely 70 years old.

New Orleans ought to be something special in a few years if this trend continues.

Thanks to the generous appliance of ordnance in my home region, some seventy years ago, I wouldn't call most of the stuff here ancient.