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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Ecolem on March 13, 2005, 03:35:14 am

Title: I HATE IE!!!
Post by: Ecolem on March 13, 2005, 03:35:14 am

Internet explorer for some reason just keeps on saying \"you need Active X to view this page\", its starting to drive me nuts!

Im starting to use FireFox and its much better:D

Is there anyway i can get rid of IE all together?

And i wana make sure that it will work when i want to check my email through MSN instead of IE

thx  :P

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Post by: Tharizdun on March 13, 2005, 03:54:33 am

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Originally posted by Mondo

Is there anyway i can get rid of IE all together?

fdisk usually does the trick for me, its one of the few Microsoft tools that I openly endorse the use of. If you arent willing to take such a drastic step, perhaps tools like LitePC are what you are after?

http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html

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Post by: Robinmagus on March 13, 2005, 03:54:42 am

well..that was..violent?

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Post by: Sarrow on March 13, 2005, 03:58:15 am

I for one dont have a problem with IE, never did never had.

I have never noticed an increase of viruses/spyware/adaware/worms, no slowdowns, no cookie bugs, I dont have wierd displays, and I never noticed any bugs. Maybe my IE isn\'t cursed ;)

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Post by: Keyaz on March 13, 2005, 04:08:34 am

karma, your ie is cursed now :rolleyes:

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Post by: Foresteer on March 13, 2005, 08:19:45 am

The reason you haven\'t noticed the problems is that IE never informs you of the crap it just invites into your PC :P i use mozilla.. its hella much better :D

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Post by: snow_RAveN on March 13, 2005, 08:36:06 am

welcome to the club mondo
but sadly is IE is still important cause mozilla cant surf some sites (like my friends flash site) and i need it to fix my WLan (when it goes haywire)

p.s. i hate you sarrow :P

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Post by: Androgos on March 13, 2005, 10:46:00 am

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Originally posted by snow_RAveN
welcome to the club mondo
but sadly is IE is still important cause mozilla cant surf some sites (like my friends flash site) and i need it to fix my WLan (when it goes haywire)

It\'s because the site is coded in IE\'s style, Microsoft didn\'t care if it didn\'t follow W#. \"We\'re the biggest and can do whatever we will and all should adapt\"...

You can\'t remove IE since it\'s the system in anything more modern that 95

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Post by: Socrates Demise on March 13, 2005, 12:36:08 pm

Though you cannot remove IE you can make it to where you don\'t redally have acces to it in windows XP go to Start > All Programs > Set Program Access and Defaults Ther is an option in there to remove IE.  (it dosen\'t really remove it it just removes it\'s icons) you still need ie for windows updates.

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Post by: Ecolem on March 13, 2005, 01:24:04 pm

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Originally posted by Tharizdun
http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html

Yeh i tired that link and it did nothing :(

I guess Socrates Demise is right in saying you cant get rid of IE, o well never mind...i will have to live with it :P

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Post by: Foresteer on March 13, 2005, 01:30:35 pm

I just dont update windows and have told my firewall to not let IE connect inbound or out or launch anything.. so its basicaly as if it didnt exist.. if there is a page that mozilla cant open then i just dont see the page :P

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Post by: Syzerian on March 13, 2005, 10:22:46 pm

http://www.stopie.com
There you go, lots of useful facts on why IE is the devil :)

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Post by: Monketh on March 13, 2005, 11:10:17 pm

Foresteer: We both know Windows has many security flaws in it.  If you don\'t update it, you\'re going to remain vunerable.  Unless, of course, you have a version with which updates have been discontinued, then it\'s too late.  :P

If I recall correctly, the last time IE was updated was in 2002.

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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on March 14, 2005, 01:11:38 am

Remember you need IE to update tho  :rolleyes:
Firefox is soo much better though. I don\'t think i can ever go back to ie :)

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Post by: Socrates Demise on March 14, 2005, 03:10:49 am

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Originally posted by Monketh
If I recall correctly, the last time IE was updated was in 2002.

To be fair that is probably the last time ie was updated for all platforms.  But microsoft dod release an update for windows xp users that includes a popup blocker and an ActiveX warning screen.   It also has you click an extra two times pefore it lets you open an exicutable from the web...  

But IMO that\'s mostly stuff that should have happened a long time ago, and were only done to fix problems.  They have done nothing to really improve the product and they have said the only way you\'ll be able to get an update is to buy Longhorn.

(Did you know the potition to get .png support for ie has been around for almost ten years now?)

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Post by: Sarrow on March 14, 2005, 03:18:11 am

1. Get a good anti-virus scanner (not the free ones you download for free, those are crap ;)
2. Get a Registry defrag and cleaner (search on google)
3. Download a spyware/adaware scanners like Spybot, but more reccommened: AD-Aware
4. If possible get a non interfering firewall, but your virus-scanner\'s firewall or SP2 firewall will do
6. Defrag your HD every two weeks
7. Clean your computer of worthless files every week

 Do weekly virus/spyware/registry/adware checks and wallah a Virus-fre/bug-free computer  :rolleyes:

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Post by: Icefalcon on March 14, 2005, 04:47:48 am

A very nice program that makes IE bearable.

http://www.advancedbrowser.com

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Post by: Keyaz on March 14, 2005, 04:57:49 am

do you hate it so much that you scream its name which then it\'d be pronounced
AAAIIEEEEE!!!!
?

wrath, firefox rules the pants
i am off topic... stop posting *slap*