April 25th, 2006
Microsoft have released the latest IE7 Beta 2 Preview, heres my first impressions and thoughts as a developer:
Cannot uninstall IE7 - If you have the previous version of IE7 Beta 2 then it will fail on the install and tell you to uninstall the exisitng IE7. All well and good but when you go to “Add or remove programs” IE7 is actually NOT there. It’s actually hidden away as part of “Windows Updates” and you need to select the “Show Updates” checkbox. Not terrible but not good, IE7 is an application, not an update.
Uninstalling IE7 is not great either. The process is long and it warns that almost half of my applications (even including things like Firefox) may be unusable after the uninstall. It stuck on “Updating Registry” which is worrying. How much confidence do I have if they can’t get the uninstall working smoothly.
More soon…. when I manage to uninstall the first version. I have to save this now as im worried the PC is going to crash..
A complete waste of time - uninstalling IE7 just killed any use of IE Explorer 6. Typing an address in the IE nav bar just says “Unable to load object”. Crap.
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1. wb640 | June 30th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Same thing here.
Uninstalling IE7 B2 seems to freeze at step “Updating registry”.
Killing the process Spuninst.exe and installing IE7 B3 (which
setup will run) causes all Windows DLL’s to mix up (normaliz.dll)
which forced me to restore Windows from a previous point (thankfully I activated system restore).
Which leaves me again with IE7 B2, not possible to uninstall …
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