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With IE8 everything works fine, except opening attachments. I'm one of
those who hit bitten by the IE8-WinMail bug :-( :-(
Which kind of "glitches" did you have?
I had 2 recurring glitches. Neither of these occurred before IE8 and since
uninstalling IE8 neither has occurred....these things happened ONLY during
IE8.
#1) In a received message with jpg attachment I would have to save the
attachment in order to view it. I did find a temporary "fix" for that
problem which was to go into Control Panel click Auto Play---in Pictures
drop down menu click it to change it to any other option then change it
back. That would fix the glitch for the next 2 or 3 times but then it would
always show back up again.
#2) Approx. 30 to 40% of the time Windows Mail would ask me for my user
name, email, and password before allowing me to perform any email functions.
I prefer my Windows Mail over my ISP's email. I like the way Windows looks &
operates. I don't like my ISP's version of email. I have not yet taken the
plunge to Windows Live Mail & am not sure I need to. I don't do IM or chat &
this is the only newsgroup I subscribe to so I'm not sure WLM would be of
any benefit to me.
I will say that I wasn't real thrilled with the way IE8 was presented to me.
I have my Windows Update set to check for update availability but let me
decide which ones I want. The IE8 was listed as an IMPORTANT update NOT as a
recommended update. I install the ones listed as important and try to
research the ones that are only recommended. I knew that IE8 HAD been beta
and understood that was along the lines of experimental. But when it showed
up listed as Important (I ASSUMED again ;-)) I assumed the kinks had been
worked out & went ahead & installed it. After I began having glitches, I
went to the view installed updates list & much to my surprise it was listed
there as a Recommended update NOT an Important update. To borrow a Brit
expression..."it was not very well done of MS" to sort of pull the switch
like
that. However, glitches aside, I did like it and wish the glitches weren't
there. Can't really explain why I liked it, it did seem faster but more than
that ...it "felt" good...you know?
Now, finally, I need to ask 1 more question. As I'm still struggling to
learn the terminology & what comes under what category, I'm trying to figure
out which group to post my next problem in. Can you point me in the right
direction please? About 20% of the time when I go to shut the laptop down,
it gets all the way down to just the background picture & I get a pop up
headed: explorer.exe saying a program is preventing your computer from
shutting down, then tells me instruction at ( a list of #'s) referenced
memory at (more #'s). The memory could not be read. Click on OK to terminate
the program. Gives me option to shut down now or cancel. I cancel, close the
pop up window & the icons on the left side of my screen re-load, then after
about a minute I can click shut down again and it shuts down. I'm worried
this is going to be a BIG problem. Do you suggest General Discussion posting
or Performance & Maint.?
Thank you for ALL your help,
Ann