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Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

jwrl — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:04:05 GMT

For those of you who don't want to turn off auto update but don't want IE8, here's a link to a page that allows you to prevent auto update from downloading IE8.

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

mjolnarn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:33:20 GMT

Storyteller:

Lesson learned turn off auto update!

Yes, thats about summarize it all, or, to say it in another way, if you have a car that works excellent, goes fast, always starts and uses very little petrol, you don´t dismount your carburator and ignition system just for fun, to see if it will go even better... you are just satisfied with what you have ...

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

Storyteller — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:05:12 GMT

I do not think I had the Beta version of IE 8 but I certainly had problems.

Running MC 3.0. with windows XP sp3.

Lost all audiosuite functions with IE 8 when projects with audiosuite effects in them were launched MC would lock up on machine. This happened fairly recently (within last month) maybe on an auto update? because the project I am now having issues with worked just fine with an earlier version of IE 8 installed .

Trying to launch audiosuite in new project with IE 8 in the current form caused same lock up.

The only way to get out was to CTL/ALT/DEL and shut down program from task manager

Uninstalled IE 8 and all functionality in audio suite came back.

Lesson learned turn off auto update!

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

jwrl — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:08:36 GMT

mjolnarn:
there were a lots of threads from those that had huge probs after updating to IE8 before this thread got pinned, we haven´t seen anyone with probs after that this post got pinned .

...and in the general PC world the issues with IE 8 are well documented. So much so that Microsoft have issued a tool to prevent auto update from loading IE 8.

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

mjolnarn — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:25:56 GMT

wmcole:

I'm not having any problem with Win XP Pro SP3, IE8 and MC 3.1.3. So that is two of us...

You also have to consider that those who are not having problems generally will not post.

or, we could see it the other way, there were a lots of threads from those that had huge probs after updating to IE8 before this thread got pinned, we haven´t seen anyone with probs after that this post got pinned .

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

wmcole — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:11:17 GMT

I'm not having any problem with Win XP Pro SP3, IE8 and MC 3.1.3. So that is two of us...

You also have to consider that those who are not having problems generally will not post.

wmc

mjolnarn:

lunalobo75:

Just my 2 cents, but I'm running MC 3.5.1 on my xw8400 with IE 8 with no issue. I'm still on Xp pro though.

We have seen too many users having probs with this update, sorry, only one that says " works for me " isn´t enough.

I am running some tests on a Vista 64 sys currently with auto update enabled, works so far but no guarantees until many more tests has been done.

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

brutus75 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:20:18 GMT

There are indeed problems!

One will bite you if you also use Pro Tools; a couple of the most important plug-ins will conflict with IE8, and cause ProTools to fail to load. The only solution is to scrap the plug-ins...usually. (There are reports of similar problems with other apps as well.)

Why not roll back to IE7 you ask?

Well, Microsoft has your butt in a wringer on this one if you loaded IE8 BEFORE upgrading to SP3. In this case, there is no provision to uninstall IE8 -- they will admit that it cannot be done for the purpose of back-reving unless you wind back to SP2 first...then uninstall IE8, then re-install SP3. However, as we all know, by the time we discover this problem, too much bit-water has flown under the CPU bridge, and going back to SP2 is impossible unless you wipe the drive and do a complete bare-metal reninstall of everything. (Or your last disk image, of course.)

The moral of the story is that if you have installed IE8 over SP2, ROLL IT BACK NOW. Don't upgrade until you have installed SP3, if then. IE8 has no reasonable advantage, anyway, and it just isn't worth the risk.

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

BobbyMurcerFan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:55:31 GMT

I haven't found IE 8 to cause any particular problems.

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

lunalobo75 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:43:17 GMT

Hello,

I know I might be the monority since I use XP pro, but 3.5.1 and 3.5.4 have no issue on my machine with IE 8.

Salud!

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

Marianna — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:37:16 GMT

Quick question all....

Do we know what the conflicts are specifically with IE 8? Is it a specific version of the editor? It's not clear from the posts what the symptoms/issues are exactly. Marianna

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

lunalobo75 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:44:33 GMT

I understand. I just added my situation just in case that something needed to be looked into further (beyond IE 8)- Salud!

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

mjolnarn — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:25:18 GMT

lunalobo75:

Just my 2 cents, but I'm running MC 3.5.1 on my xw8400 with IE 8 with no issue. I'm still on Xp pro though.

We have seen too many users having probs with this update, sorry, only one that says " works for me " isn´t enough.

I am running some tests on a Vista 64 sys currently with auto update enabled, works so far but no guarantees until many more tests has been done.

Re: IE 8 on WU Be careful and do not auto update

lunalobo75 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:17:08 GMT

Hey All,

Just my 2 cents, but I'm running MC 3.5.1 on my xw8400 with IE 8 with no issue. I'm still on Xp pro though.

Salud!

Re: IE 8?

mjolnarn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:36:49 GMT

Tugger:

microsoft is pushing their new version of Internet Explorer (8) I recall a post (although I can't seem to find it with a forum search) about conflicts/problems with MC when a user tried the available Betaversion of IE8. Anyone tried IE8 yet?

Yes, I was into that thread and I think that I was the one that found the prob for the user the solution was to uninstall the beta version of IE 8 and roll back to IE 7

Re: IE 8 on WU

mjolnarn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:34:45 GMT

BarkinMadd:

I noticed this today, too, Tomas. My first thought was that IE8 might create problems for MC3 - Are you planning to experiment with it? I missed earlier posts by those having problems with the beta IE8. I'll do a site search and read-up on their problems. It always amazes me when Microsoft publishes an update like this and calls it 'critical' (actually, they call it 'important' and have it selected by default)...

Cheers

Hi Steve, I will wait for some time before updating, everything is just working so amazingly well right now, I don´t want to touch anything.