Problem with vista and IE9 ???

[Rabbit B]

Hi clever people

I have been asked to enquire whether other people running Vista have had problems after installing IE 9

I would be most grateful for any help with this.  A fellow Rootschatter’s machine has now gone down, now completely.

It was fine until this update was installed.

All answers gratefully answered!

Thank You


Rabbit B 

[km1971]

I have vista (64 bit) and IE9 and have had no problems. Lots of people were complaining about a year ago. Suggest you look through - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9

- or just un-install it - it is in View installed updates and not the Programs and Features Window. It will automatically take you back to your last version.

Just re-read the post. I cannot be an MS upgrade that has caused a PC to 'go down completely'. What usually happens is that people do not do one change at a time - which is what you should do. Sounds as if they need to boot in safe mode and go back to last working set up. Sorry, but I have to leave for a long drive.

I suggest you try a different section of the above MS site.

Ken

[[Ray]]

Hi

"now completely."

What does that mean?
Will not power up at all?

Would you go through what actually happens in sequence, starting on whether it is a laptop or desktop?

All connections checked and pushed home?

Ray

[jc26red]

The fellow Rootschatter has another PC which she can use, she will come and ask for help if needed.   

Last I heard was that her internet had gone down.... not something you want to happen when you are in the middle of doing updates.

Jenny

[KGarrad]

Last I heard was that her internet had gone down.... not something you want to happen when you are in the middle of doing updates.

Does that mean that her broadband connection is not working?
Or that her PC is working OK, but she can't connect to the internet?
Or that the software (presumably IE9) doesn't work?

The phrases "gone down" and "go down completely" don't really describe an error?

[jc26red]

lol! that message came from Rabbit yesterday 

Think it might be wise to wait till the other rootschatter can get back online. i.e. log into the internet. 

PS...the pc was running IE9 faultlessly until pc problems occured (don't ask me the exact problems as I don't know)  Pc was backed up and taken back to factory settings and all the backdated updates were being done yesterday...

Now we have the message from Rabbit saying that the IE9 update has caused problems and she doesn't have internet.... this wouldn't have affected her other pc though!    

Maybe best we wait and hear from the user.

[Rabbit B]

Hi Km171, KGarrad,  jc26red,  Ray (CroxleyGreen),

I was asked to post this message last night, to see if anyone had any ideas. If the person could have done it herself, she tells me that she would have done so.

The Vista had been taken back to factory settings and was fine, until one of the updates was added. Then it simply froze again.  Hence the question.

Thank you all for your kind answers, I will of course pass them all on immediately.

Rabbit B 
 

[PaulaToo]

OK My Darlings, this is what happened.

Vista crahed big time at the beginning of the week.
Nothing would bring it back so I took it back to Factory Settings.
It was fine, better than it had been for months, then as I added more and more updates ... there are about 4 years of them ... it got slower. Then I put in IE 9 and that was it, the poor old thing froze THEN it went into a cycle showing me a screen saying configuring updates 3 of 3 0% This notice no sooner came up than it rebooted.
No sooner rebooted than the 0% of 3 by 3 confguation came up. After two hours of this I gave up. Switched off at the point.
Yesterday I once more went back to Factory Settings. Everything is going fine now and I am doing the updates. I'm not using it to work on line so  this is coming for a very old and tired XP, bless it.
So Far everything looks good with Vista, so no panic .... yet

[[Ray]]

My advice?

Let it run. You say you have 4 years of updates?
Let it run.
That update cycle may take a VERY long time.

In between "handfuls" of updates...... run a backup.
Then should anything happen you will not need to go back to square one.

You have not described anything out of the ordinary.
A lot of updates are likely to take a long time.
Re-booting along the way.



Personall I'd stick with the XP machine