Windows Internet Explorer 8 is a web browser developed by Microsoft, released on 19 March 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7.
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Chrome, Firefox and IE all blank pages
IE, Chrome and Firefox are, no matter what page I go to, coming up blank. No content whatsoever.
If you view source in all three browsers it is blank.
Yet, if you use Wireshark the appropriate ...
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How can I give a VBS script access to run without opening a security hole in IE?
I'm currently working on an application that basically sits on top of IE. This program is used on Windows XP and Windows 7 laptops in police cars. The program has a number of VB scripts that run, ...
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In IE8, my homepage is redirected by my router to if I don't have a connection. I have to reopen IE to get access. How can I fix this?
I open IE, and the router then redirects to 192.168.0.1 from Google. This is the config page, to try to fix the connection. In time, the connection fixes, but clicking refresh doesn't get me on to ...
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Internet Explorer not redirecting HTTP to HTTPS to a specific user
One of our users is trying to access a site that automatically re-directs the HTTP to a HTTPS domain, but it's not happening for her. She just gets a page cannot be displayed. However, if I "run as" ...
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How to save open tabs in IE 8 to favourites using keyboard shortcuts?
I've got like 60 webpages + several tabs in each one open in IE 8 and I want to add them all to favourites without doing each page individually. Is it possible to do with just keyboard shortcuts?
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Why are favorites in Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 the start menu All Programs links?
When I open my favorites in IE8 on Win7 64 bit, all the folders and programs from Start Menu -> All Programs are listed - why? And is there a way to fix this?
I don't really want or need to open up ...
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Spybot S&D finds Windows7 IE8 cookies that I can't find any other way. Where are they?
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium with IE8 (tried IE9 -- hated it.)
From the C:\ directory I can do dir username@*.txt /s and find a lot of cookies in ...
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Shortcut to toggle Internet Explorer 8 Protected Mode On/Off
We have to use an intranet page that uses an annoying Post button with a mailto action to send some form data to another group in our company.
This action won't work properly with IE8 unless we ...
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IE8, Mozilla Firefox, not displaying website icons, links, images. WinXP
After moving to an area my previous internet provider didn't cover and waiting a week for the local internet company to come, they hooked up a new router and after two days, my desktop icons were ...
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Add Bookmark to IE8 from Link (page not opened)
I can't seem to find a way to add a bookmark in IE8 from a link.
I've generated links for an inhouse project that contain the username and password. Once the URL is called they are redirected to ...
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Remove menu bar from IE8 or just disable copy and paste
How do I remove the menu bar from IE 8 for the student account? Or even just the Edit menu, or just eliminate the ability to copy and paste?
I'm using Windows Steady State to configure student ...
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IE plugin for vertical tabs
I am looking for plugin/add on for vertical tabs in IE, like "Tree Style Tab" for Firefox.
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Adobe Reader X is displaying incorrect data
Recently in our organization we moved to Adobe Reader X 10.1.2. We have a web application that displays data in pdf format in IE8 on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit PC. We started observing that the same data is ...
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I installed IE 64bit from this site, now I'm running IE9 and can't get rid of IE 64bit, help!
I found this site when I upgraded my desktop pc to 64bit from the 32bit it came installed with. I then downloaded windows 8 for 64bit at the time, and found it caused me more problems than it did ...
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Internet Explorer and Firefox crash, but Chrome doesn't?
I have a system where either IE 8 or Firefox 3.5 will crash out without any error message, and do this spontaneously after about 1 or 2 minutes of being open. Chrome, however, is stable and doesn't ...
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Favorites features are unresponsive
My Favorites buttons in IE8 has become unresponsive. Nothing hapens if I click Add to favorites, Organize favorites, Add to Favorites field (I don't have the english version of IE so the names might ...
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Internet Explorer 8 – icons on Favourite Bar is not full colours
Some of my icons on the Favourite Bar are stuck in 256 colours. I have even rebooted, cleared the IE cache, run CCleaner, etc. but still no changes. This happened when I remote controlled my Windows 7 ...
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Can you specify per program how Internet Explorer handles hyperlinks?
Is there a way to configure Internet Explorer's "Open links from other programs in:" option per program?
I'm looking for a way to allow different programs to act differently when clicking ...
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IE 8 most popular sites on new tab - setting
MY IE 8 most popular sites tab shows nothing. Where can I change the setting?
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internet Explorer 8 manage addon pop disabling
How can I prevent "manage add-on pop up" coming up every time I start IE8. I tried following procedures and nothing helped.
Reset IE8 and reinstalled IE8 completely.
Disabled all add-on.
Is there ...
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IE 8 + cache clearing… IE8 will not load newer versions of a .jpg file
I have put
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="120"><!-- Should update every 120 seconds-->
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"><!-- prevent caching -->
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Windows 7 crashes with Nvidia 9800 GTX and Flash
I have an Intel Quad Core Workstation that I used to use for high end games and Hyper-V servers. It has an Nvidia 9800 GTX graphics card. (Driver version 280.26) The workstation has 8GB of RAM. It ...
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Youtube asking to update Flash Player?
My friend has IE8. Everytime he opens his IE8 browser to visit youtube.com, this site asks him to update Adobe Flash to the newest version.
We uninstall it, reinstall it, reboot windows, installed ...
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Adobe Reader IE8 plugin fails with blank dialog
In Windows 7, when Abode Reader plugin attempts to open web documents in IE8, sometimes a blank dialog box appears and the document fails to open. This issue has been discussed on other forums, e.g., ...
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IE8 and certificate issues following Service Pack 1 install on Windows 7
When trying to open Internet Explorer 8 under a different user account, I get the following error:
There is a problem with this website's security certificate.
I found this post which describes ...
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OWA on IE8 cannot access local shared folder, error “network access is denied”
Here's the setup:
I'm connecting to an exchange server via OWA (Outlook Web Access) in IE 8 on Windows 7. Everything works as it is supposed to, except that I cannot access a local shared drive when ...
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Show Toolbar in Internet Explorer Pop-ups
I know that its possible to open a "bare" (e.g. no toolbars) popup window using Javascript. I also know that other browsers, such as Chrome, allow the user to override the developer's preference and ...
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Mystery - IE8 losing all cookies randomly for a few users
Our site, which has a few hundred thousand users log in each day, is experiencing a very rare problem where certain IE8 users abruptly lose all their cookies, and therefore are then logged out. ...
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How to make an Active X (control) stay 'enabled'?
I am using internet explorer version 8 with Windows XP.
If you go to
Tools> Manage Add-ons > Toolbars & Extensions,
you see: name, publisher, status.
Under status it's either 'enabled' or ...
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Windows 7 x64 Internet Explorer 8 Speed Problem when using interface
I just reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my laptop as my hard disk was giving me some I/O errors so I wanted to format it and start over.
After the whole intall process was completed I was left ...
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Iframe not showing on IE7 and 8?
Iframe not showing on IE7 and 8 on my PC but showing on all other non IE browsers. and working on my friend's IE7 and 8.
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Can we automatically open a second tab with IE8 with another browser (IE6 Virtual)
AT the company I work with they have legacy applications that work only with IE6 with no plan to upgrading them. The company will be rolling out IE8, the solution was to rollout IE6 Virtual (VMWare) ...
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Confirm form resubmission dialog in IE8 doesn't have focus
When the "Confirm form resubmission" dialog comes up (after pressing F5 refresh) in certain sites, I used to just press Enter or the space bar and it would hit enter.
In IE8, the dialog box doesn't ...
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What IE8 setting might cause small text to be rendered as normal-sized text (some “minimum font size to display” setting)?
IE8 (on Windows 7) is not rendering the very smallest fonts on our website as small, but rather as normal size (100% of normal text size).
However, on a fresh install of Windows 7 (in virtual pc) ...
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IE8 Compatibility View issues
I have the IE7 emulater tag in a jsp layout. But when I bring up the page, it defaults to the IE8 view until the user clicks the Compatibility View button. I don't want the user to have to click the ...
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Page won't display on postback IE8
I have a computer that is having an issue with Internet Explorer. The computer is running Windows XP and IE8. Both are fully patched. The problem is that there are several pages that will come up the ...
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Any add-in for IE8 to prevent a webmail (Domino Web Access) session from expiring?
I had to switch from the local Lotus Notes client to Domino Web Access, it is extremely annoying me that the webmail session has a timeout of 10 minutes or so, forcing a new login every time I'm not ...
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IEAK 8 Deployment Fails to Restart System
We're trying to complete our IE7 to IE8 upgrade in our organization. The systems that will be receiving the upgrade are all Windows XP SP3 computers. I've used IEAK 8 to build a deployment file that ...
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Internet explorer 8 - Auto-detect settings becomes unchecked after login
After I have logged on the windows 7 enterprise pc, the "auto-detect settings" under "Local Area Network(LAN) Settings" get unchecked and the "use a proxy server for your LAN...." get checked. When ...
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install Norwegian Internet explorer 8 on English windows 7
I have a computer with Windows 7, 32 bit English version and IE8 English version. I need to have a computer with Windows 7 English and IE8 Norwegian version. My computer is not connected to the ...
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Issue with SSL certificate in internet explorer 8, popup does not appear
I need to log into a https website using SSL certificates.
If I try to do this in mozilla firefox, the certificate popup appears and everything works well. Problem is, that application does not ...
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IE8 in Windows XP - unable to open another window as another user whilst an existing IE8 window is running
This is giving me a headache, but i'd like some help on what to do next in order to fix my problem. I'm only able to run one IE8 session as only one user at a time, for for instance, if I open IE ...
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IE8 page reload hangs
When a 7mb HTM file is first opened (by clicking on the file icon or using Open With), both IE8 and Firefox display this browser file quickly. After the file is closed, Firefox will reopen this file ...
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Setup auto login for web application on HP Thin Client
I wrote a .NET web application that is accessed over the internet via a number of different clients.
Desktop browsers, iPads, but also via some HP t5570 "thin client" PC's.
The web application ...
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Can I tell IE9 to launch with the IE8 or IE7 rendering engine
I'm setting up a testing machine that needs to launch multiple copies of IE when the machine boots, because the browser will be running automated tests. I know IE9 can render IE7 and IE8 but is there ...
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Citrix. Unsigned Active-X doesnt' work in IE 8
I have unsigned Active-X and web page that contains that. I managed to open the web page in IE 8 on dozen of workstations sucessfully after playing with IE 8 security settings. Active-X works fine.
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Firefox Consumes A Lot Of RAM After Security Update
All was okay before 3.6.18 but after security update it started eating a lot of RAM and spiking frequent high CPU usage. Here are screenshots:
Currently have running Internet Explorer 8.0, Chrome ...
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Windows XP (SP3) & IE8 cannot connect to (Exchange 2003) OWA
Laptop running XP Pro (SP3) updated to IE8. When attempting to connect to OWA (Exchange 2003), IE8 states "unable to display web page". This occurs prior to any sign-in screen. OWA site has been added ...
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Web shortcuts (.url) not working on Windows 7
I'm experiencing several symptoms, but I believe they are all related to web link files not working.
First, I can't create we link files anymore. When I try New > Shortcut and put an URL, I get the ...
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Internet Explorer 8 - Maximum number of links in the Favorites Bar
I have a user who used to use the Links Bar in previous versions of Internet Explorer. When he upgraded to IE8, he now has a ton of links in his Favorites Bar since they've done away with the Links ...
