{"id":510,"date":"2009-05-27T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T18:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=510"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:01:51","slug":"problems-with-internet-explorer-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/problems-with-internet-explorer-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with Internet Explorer 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer 8 was <a href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2009\/04\/review-of-the-new-internet-explorer-8-web-browser\/\" target=\"_blank\">released as a manual Windows Update about a month ago<\/a>, and some customers have experienced various issues after installing the update. If you have not already installed it, I recommend waiting until some of the issues get fixed. If you have already installed it and are experiencing issues, you can uninstall it via the Add\/Remove Programs Control Panel (Windows XP) or Programs and Features Control Panel (Windows Vista), which will also revert Internet Explorer back to version 7. You can selectively choose not to install the manual update by following <a href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2009\/07\/how-to-pick-and-choose-which-windows-updates-to-install\/\" target=\"_blank\">these directions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some issues I&#8217;ve heard of or experienced include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cannot install ActiveX controls that are required to use features on some websites<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 When logged into financial institution web site, some time you may need to log-in again when clicking a link that opens a new window<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Conflicts with RoboForm form-filling software<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Incompatibilities with some toolbars<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Clicking an internet web page shortcut placed on the desktop will not open Internet Explorer<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/problems-with-internet-explorer-8\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print This Article\" title=\"Print This Article\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/problems-with-internet-explorer-8\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\">Print This Article<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer 8 was released as a manual Windows Update about a month ago, and some customers have experienced various issues after installing the update. If you have not already installed it, I recommend waiting until some of the issues get fixed. If you have already installed it and are experiencing issues, you can uninstall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","category-computing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}