Valerian101

Hi to Everybody especially Little Asterisk!Thanks so much for your sharing and assistance. I have decided that as daughter's computer is running so smoothly and efficiently that there is no point in trying to fix it when it ain't broken! So she wanted IE8 - not necessary and certainly not essential. As she has a disability her computer is beautifully set up with hundreds of pounds worth of suitable software and hardware. It would take hours to reinstall, programme and configure everything. I did have to do it about a year ago so I know. Actually, it was still under guarantee with a technician visiting within twenty four hours if required, but it was more convenient for my daughter for me to do it.If daughter must have IE8 she's got it there on her laptop which is also in good order. In the meantime I hope common sense will prevail and she will grow up and wean herself on to Firefox or Google ChromeBTW I saw that on a Vista support site someone else was having the identical problem except the KB update was marginally different. Suggestions were much the same as here.If you want a smile, I did something very silly last week. My faultless computer failed to start up displaying the message about system or disk error and to press any key to continue, but I was in a flap so after a quick check that no disks were in the drives and without thinking further I used the Gigabyte recovery programme. Computer got to the same point again and then I realised that I hadn't checked the A: drive (which as I 'never' use I hadn't checked) and you've guessed it; in there was a floppy I had tried out the previous evening. I had always kept the boot order to boot first from floppy so that if I want to use Dban or similar program for any of its many drives this function is always available. (I've since changed this back to HDD!). So my C: drive was overwritten to exactly where I had last saved it. No problem, I lost nothing as everything is backed up every time to one or more drives and it did give the registry a bit of a clean out... What it did do was to wipe the smile from my face at my stupidity. Had it been anyone else's computer I would have been more careful and professional. Silly me!!!!

Hi Soviet Rathe. My, what a scary avatar you have - but I love it! Thank you for your post. Given the number of googled people who have IE8 installation problems, I entirely agree with you. I thought IE was OK till I changed to Firefox. Was rather annoyed when I discovered that Microsoft had pirated ideas from Firefox and incorporated them into IE. Naughty, naughty! What would have been the response if the pirating had been the other way round. (Rhetorical question this one.) Now, Asterisk, thank you so much for your helpful and amusing posts. Neeedless to add I have Piriform's CC installed in my computer. I recall it being described as 'crap cleaner'. I also use IOBIT System care which includes a cleaner and defrag program. It is brilliant. You name it and I probably have it or tried it!! As I said I am mad. Daughter came home today for the weekend and I asked her to read this thread. "I think, Mum," she said half smiling, have serious, "You should, perhaps, mention that you are a retired person of 72 and I am 36!' 'Nuff said. Rather than clean Windows, except PC ones, I am trying to find time to do more work on my personal website. You are more than welcome to visit at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ BTW I think I will do a clean up of daughter's computer. It hasn't had a 'wash' for months. Will let you know how I get on.

Hi Asterisk, I love your humour! My daughter runs a 32 bit system as do Mum (me) and Dad alike. In our household we all use XP Pro and all except me have two computers each. I had two, one of which I repaired and then gave away to someone who needed one. I am not sure if daughter has IE8 on her laptop as she tends not too use it - she has an injury caused by over-use of the laptop. (Warning to everyone not to take the Microsoft Health and Safety warning lightly. Permanent injuries of this nature are being recognised and becoming more common). So daughter was provided with a specially adapted computer set up suitable to her needs. Husband has standard, direct from Microsoft, IE8. I was using IE6 until a few days ago when I upgraded it to Yahoo optimised IE8. Reason why I went down this route was because I have a ****** version of Windows. I installed it after I swapped my IDE drive to SATA. I still have the legitimate disk but as it is an upgrade I have to use six floppies to initialise the operation as a clean install or put 2000 back in and then upgrade. Because I am a maverick I prefer the fun of what I am doing and is it so simple - no activation required. This, however, means I cannot install IE7 or IE8 from Microsoft as it has to check the legitimacy before installation. I was so surprised that I could install it via Yahoo.I use Firefox all the time as it was recommended to me about six years ago when I first worked as a volunteer in an IT section. I love it. I use Google Chrome as an alternative particularly when I buy on line through Quidco. This means I can view and make decisions before I commit myself to the any purchase without having to clear my browser cache of cookies. Quidco recommend an alternative browser so that their cookie is installed and validates the cashback. I also use Chrome for learning languages on line as I have put all my related links into it for instant access.I experiment a lot on my computer with various software. I was a beta tester for Windows 7 using a virtual drive as I do for Ubuntu (though I do have a Knoppix disk as well). Yes, I am mad I also googled the KB thing before trying this forum and even posted it into the Microsoft search box. I checked through all my XP updates and couldn't find it there. What puzzles me is that the download came from Microsoft. I checked the authenticity of this. S'pose I could contact Microsoft Support team from daughter's computer.Thought about your suggestion for the pink flowers but for my daughter they would have to be purple and I couldn't find any purple flower persona which did not obscure too much of the Firefox links. Maybe I should submit a custom one!I think my plan of action will be to say to her "So what! Get with it girl and use Firefox." But when did a daughter ever listen to her mother except when her computer needs sorting.

Thank you so much for your pompt response. Much appreciated. I don't think she has a virus in her computer. In fact I am pretty certain she hasn't. We use Kaspersky in all our computers and have never had a problem, also my daughter is a very wary and canny surfer. She is currently using IE7 and the computer runs very quickly and smoothly. We have Firefox in all computers but my husband and daughter tend to use IE. I think old habits are hard to change. I also have Google Chrome on mine, but love Firefox because it is so customiseable. (Where else could I get pink flowers persona). I think daughter wants IE8 because I have it. Kids eh?

Well, I'm a Newbie but to this site and not to computing. I have just read a thread about people having problems with the installation of IE8 but it has not helped me. I do hope I am placing this post in the right Forum.I have installed IE8 with no problems on my own computer using the optimised for Yahoo version. My daughter is having problems installing IE8 so I have been investigating it and have got nowhere. During the IE set up a message comes up saying that an update is required and gives a link to Microsoft. The update is KB932828-v3x86-ENU.exe. When this update is downloaded and is clicked upon the message comes up 'Setup has detected that the Service Pack version of this system is newer than the update you are applying. There is no need to install this update.'My daughter has a legitimate version of XP installed with Service Pack 3. I read on the previous thread that it might be an idea to remove Service Pack 3, install IE6 and then reinstall the Service Pack. As it is absolutely essential that the computer is kept running, I am not happy about experimenting. I have had problems on my computer with System Restore failing to restore!I would be so grateful for guidance. Thanks