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IE11 Can't open tab or page

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This is all over the internet without resolution. After the last Windows update IE11 no longer opens a link in a new tab or page. It opens a blank tab and won't respond at all if asked to open in new page. Please. Firefox works fine, but I want to use IE11. All of the usual fixes (set IE11 as default.....) do not fix it. Save me from Firefox!

solutionbank requires internet explorer v6 or higher

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Hi,

I recently bought a new computer with Windows 8.1 which uses Internet Explorer 11 and have been unable to use a CD-ROM (supplied in a textbook I bought) livetext program on which there are stored answers. I desperately need to use this as I have exams in about 2 months and am severely stressed so this is not helping at all since this is the only way I can check that I am doing my work correctly.

On my old computer with Windows Vista I was able to open the program successfully but with this version I am unable to. I have tried Mozilla, Firefox and Google Chrome but they too do not work and anyway I prefer to use Internet Explorer.

The program is an "Application (.exe)". Whenever I press the link to the livetext program (known as solutionbank) a message appears"solutionbank requires internet explorer v6 or higher".

I have checked the Microsoft forums for help but no one seems to know anything about the issue.

Thanks

Batch file for IE settings

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Hi everybody,

I want to make some changes to IE settings of many PCs to be able to open a tool which willl be used by all users using the systems..
Since same settings are to be applied to different systems. I want to create a batch file for it .


Settings are :

1.Go to internet Options-- security--sites--trusted sites and and the site https://abc.com under it
2.Set security level for this zone as Low
3.Check enable protected mode
4.Go to internet options--settings--privacy and uncheck Turn on Pop-up blocker
5.Go to tools--compatibility view settings and the site https://abc.com under it . Check option - display intranet sites
in compatibility view

I did some research on net and found that all these settings are done by changing entries in registery.
The site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182569 gave lot of info on what various codes mean . But since I am new to creating
batch files , it does not help me in writing commands. Little more research showed me that my commands would be something like
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /.....................
However I cannot use trial and error as any unwanted change to registery may cause damage to my systems .
It would really be very helpful if anyone can help me with his/her expertise in batch files and reg files.
My target will be for IE8/9/10/11 preview . I am assuming the commands would be same for these versions which are comparitively new.

Thanks,
Mani



manISRT

Windows 8.1 Internet Explorer Metro not functioning properly

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I've recently upgraded to Window's  8.1 , I'm on my 3rd reinstall but still can't get IE 11 metro functioning properly, the dudes at Microsoft support keep making a mess so I then have to keep reinstalling. Nobody knows how to fix this problem!

Every time I start the machine and run IE metro it just goes to the blue screen with the big "E" symbol and crashes

event viewer reports :

The server DefaultBrowser.DefaultBrowserActivatableClass did not register with DCOM within the required timeout

I've been using a bizarre work around. First start machine then login wait for start up items to load, then hit the restart button wait for machine to restart login wait for start up items to load low and be hold IE metro runs.

IE metro will only run if a "RESTART" is used to start the machine.

1) Don't tell me all the usual crap like clearing file history ssl caches, it don't work!!!! 

2) Don't tell me to reset the browser it don't work!!!!! it's how I found that just using the "RESTART" button works.

3) Don't tell me to uninstall IE via programmes and feature and unselecting the IE check box restarting and reinstalling IE that don't work either!!!

 I getting very sick of the useless Pilipino dudes at Microsoft support, they are just googling for solutions, jeez I've already done that!!

Is Microsoft ever going to patch this piece of crap!!!! doesn't matter how I reinstall the problem never goes away.

Windows 8.1 Internet Explorer Metro not functioning properly

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Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 on my Surface Pro, the metro version of Internet Explorer crashes immediately after launching.

You see the big blue "e" and then it just crashes...   Any ideas?

How do I stop IE 9 from blocking websites from displaying content with security certificate errors?

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How do I stop IE 9 from blocking websites from displaying content with security certificate errors? Every site that I visit, I get this message, and I keep clicking and clicking and most of the times, the photographs go blank.

THen when I try to sign into my facebook page, I get Access denied, you do not have permission to access.

THis has absolutely got to be the very worst Internet Explorer version that I have ever used in over  20 years of use. I am very VERY close to not using IE atoll and use Firefox, or Chrome or even Safari.

Loading status not showing + tabs management - IE11 Win8.1

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Hi all,

Loading status / info

This is rather a feedback to MS IE team than a question as I have played around and this is the only issue that is stopping me from using IE as default browser.

In older versions of IE, there was a clear indication with a progress bar in status-bar of IE, so users would know that page is being loaded, and how much of it has loaded. This loading status / info was quite accurate most of the times.

In last few major versions IE9/10/11, I have noticed that this loading status info is not accurate at all. Sometimes the spinning wheel appears in tab's icon, but this is just random, and mostly it doesn't show if the page is loading something.

Being a technical user, I really need to know what's been going on when I click. I like the status-bar showing links when I hover on them, so I'd know where the link will take me to, similarly, there show be accurate info when page starts loading something, either via user clicking link/button, or when script starts loading something.

In latest IE11 on Win8.1, mostly the tab opens blank white (when ctrl+click a link on page, to open in new tab), with no indications of is its actually loading or not. It maybe not noticeable on fast connections, so I see no one complaining about it, but on slow connections, every single detail is observed.

Tabs management

I am really disappointed with IE9+ that the tab management is worst than all other browsers. Dragging tab out of window, putting it back is so fluid and best implemented in Chrome, then Firefox and Opera etc. But IE's tab management is so bad, and I see that it's been same flacky kind since IE8. MS has done a lot of work on HTML and JS engine to make it faster, but all this hard work doesn't pay off until tabs are not properly implemented.

Sometimes, IE window hangs just because of scripting issues in one tab, user can't just kill one tab, instead, user have to kill the window, then reopen same links.

I would really love to use IE as default browser, but only these few small but critical details are keeping me away from it. I hope IE team is reading these forums, and take note of these for future updates.

Best regards,

// chall3ng3f //


www.orison.biz/blogs/chall3ng3r/

Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 vs. Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7

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We're working on preparing a new web server machine.  When I browse to our main page on the new server using IE 11 on my Windows 8.1 workstation, the page doesn't render right.  The same page renders fine in Firefox, in IE 10 on my older Windows 7 workstation, and in IE 11 on a colleague's pre-Windows 8 workstation.

I've verified that the HTML source for the page that IE 11 on Windows 8.1 receives is the same as the HTML source that IE 10 on Windows 7 receives.

Any ideas where I can look?


When opening a PDF in IE 10 with Enhanced Protection Mode it displays "This website wants to run acropdf.dll"

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I am running my application which requires JRE on Internet Explorer 10. Since the IE need to run in 64 bit mode, we have enabled the "Enhanced Protection Mode" in Security option of Internet Options in Advanced tab. But my application also opens up PDF in the browser, when the page with PDF is invoked it displays "The webpage wants to run 'AcroPDF.dll'. If you trust this site, you can disable Enhanced Protection Mode for this site to run the control.(Disable)(Always Ignore)".  And on clicking any option the PDF is not displayed.

We would not be able to disable the  Enhanced Protection Mode as the 64 Bit JRE would not be invoked for other part of the application.

Please let me know how to resolve this issue.

Regards

Navin

IE 11 links open to Blank page after last Window update

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IE 11 links open to Blank page after last Window update, I tried every trouble shooting and suggestions I could find in all forums but to no avail.

Operating system Win 8.

will try any suggestions and report back.

IHTMLDocument2::get_body fails in CHtmlView for IE 11

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We've hit a simple, but critical, problem: IHTMLDocument2::get_body works in our embedded browser (CHtmlView) for IE7, but not IE11. We really want to start using the newer version, but this is a killer right now.

We use Visual Studio 2010. Native (unmanaged) C++. Problem occurs in both 32 and 64 bit builds. I don't know where this started failing (IE8? IE9? IE10?). OnNavigateComplete2 has fired before we try to call this function.

Here's our code, which has worked for us for a long time:

ComPtr<IHTMLTxtRange> CHighlightHTML::GetRange(ComPtr<IHTMLDocument2> document)
{
    ComPtr<IHTMLElement> elt;
    ComPtr<IHTMLBodyElement> body;

    if( SUCCEEDED(document->get_body(&elt.ReleaseGetValue())) )
        body = elt;

    if( body.IsValid() )
    {
        // Create a range from the entire body element.
        ComPtr<IHTMLTxtRange> range;
        CHECK_COM(body, createTextRange(&range.ReleaseGetValue()));
        return range;               
    }
}

But when we set the registry key: HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/FeatureControl/FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION

to 11000 for our .exe, then elt == NULL (so fails the body.IsValid() test)

If we have not set the registry key, or set the key to 7000 (so browser control is IE7), then it works again.

Help!


No HTML5 video in IE11 on Server 2012 R2

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I cannot seem to get HTML5 video working in IE11 on Server 2012 R2, in RDSH mode (Remote Desktop Session Host).

I have the Desktop Experience feature installed, and have tried adding the sites (e.g. youtube, vimeo) to trusted sites and cranked the security down to the lowest (medium-low) for trusted sites but nothing. I don't really want to have to use trusted sites anyway...

On YouTube I am getting the HTML5 right-click menu over the video area, but no video plays - just a buffering symbol spinning and then a black area where the video should be.

I tried changing the user agent to IE10 via the F12 tools, but no change.

I ran the suite of tests from peacekeeper.futuremark.com and most of the stuff worked, e.g. all the animations, but none of the video, especially videoCodecH264 showed as N/A.

www.w3.org/2010/05/video/mediaevents.html is giving "unknown error" in the video playback window.

I can make YouTube work by adding it to compatibility view, where it then drops back to using Flash player. This does not work for Vimeo.

I have minimal policy settings set on these servers at the moment.

Any suggestions would be most welcome, thanks in advance.



IE's Slowness With Long Threads on Microsoft Forums

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Long threads on this website become very slow to display (as in locking up the browser for literally MINUTES).  But the page displays finally DO complete if you're very patient, indicating it's not an infinite loop. 

This is not a new problem, it's obvious to all and it's been discussed here before, with Microsoft's acknowledgement. But amazingly it has only been given minimal attention.  Some forum updates have incrementally decreased the time to display long threads, but the problem remains, literally for years!

I believe it needs to be discussed further.  It cannot be that Microsoft wants IE to work this badly on its own website.  Certainly waiting for threads to display doesn't make our days any brighter.

 

Here's a fairly long thread you can try it on if you'd like to reproduce the problem for yourself:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/3baf6cb4-e21f-41d8-95f7-a06f4fc12076#d454303b-b6f7-42a3-9527-9b676bff26ce

  

Some observations:

 

  • It takes MUCH longer (something like 10x longer) if you're logged-in than if you're logged out.
      
  • Sometimes IE puts up a message that "Microsoft.com is not responding due to a long-running script".  I've seen other browsers put up similar messages.
      
  • Most times fairly quickly the page will partially render, but without the avatars, etc., then the avatars, points, etc. will fill in much later when the spinner stops, indicating the page display is done.
      
  • Not every browser is equally slow, though all seem to be affected by whatevernear-infinite loop Microsoft has coded in the web script.
      
  • The problem seems to be getting no better in the latest versions, even though they claim much faster script processing.  It also seems worse on 64 bit OSs.

 

 

Observed logged-in times to display the thread at the link I provided above:

  • Windows XP Pro, IE8:

    Page initially went solid blank white.
    27 seconds to display the page initially, coincident with a dialog: "A script is running slowly", "Stop this script"?  I answered No.
    64 seconds to display the avatars, names, points, etc.

  

  

  • Windows Vista 32 bit, IE9:

    2.6 seconds to display the page initially
    32.4 seconds to display the avatars, names, points, etc.

 

 

  • Windows Vista x64, IE9 (on a much less powerful workstation than the others here):

    4.8 seconds to display the page initially
    175.4 seconds to display the avatars, names, points, etc.

 

 

  • Windows 7 32 bit, IE9:

    3.2 seconds to display the page initially
    31.0 seconds to display the avatars, names, points, etc.

 

 

  • Windows 7 64 bit, IE9:

    2.8 seconds to display the page initially
    43.8 seconds to display the avatars, names, points, etc.

 

 

  • Windows 7 64 bit, IE10 (RP):

    2.6 seconds to display the page initially
    59.4 seconds to display the avatars, names, points, etc.

 

 

  • Windows 8 64 bit, IE10:

    3.0 seconds to display the page initially
    63.6 seconds to display the avatars, names, points, etc.

 

 

    

Since Microsoft doesn't seem to want to try to get to the bottom of this, how about we here have a go at figuring out what's happening using the various profiling and tracing tools?  Wouldn't it be great to be able to browse here more quickly?

      

-Noel


Detailed how-to in my eBooks:  

Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
Configure The Windows 8 "To Work" Options



IE9 and IE10 cannot download/open any files

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We are seeing this issue pretty consistently across the board with IE9 and IE10, and everything we have researched has not worked.  We notice that if we are logged in as administrator on a computer  (both PC's running Windows 7 and zero-client terminals), we do not experience the issue.   When we log back in as the user, we cannot open, save, or save as any downloads.

We have deleted all appropriate registry entries, removed and reinstalled IE9 and IE10 on different computers, removed any group policy that may apply to our internet settings for testing, and removed our av program for testing only.

Across the net we see multiple questions on this issue, but no clear-cut answer.  Has anyone come up with a standard answer for this?  Very frustrating...we didn't experience this on the same systems, same operating system, when we were on IE8.  

Upgraded to IE9 and now it's forcing SSL when not needed and causes site to timeout loading.

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I've found that when our users take a laptop home, connect to our corporate network (which requires SSL) everything works fine. However, if they bring this device back to work and connect it will timeout. A network trace shows that IE is requesting 443 traffic, the problem is that we do not have SSL enabled on our internal site AND the url we are using in IE is simply http:// .

The fix so far is to reset IE settings, including "Delete Personal Settings". Further research shows that this reset is working because there is a file in the temporary internet files \ Content.IE5 \ XXXX \ site_domain_com[1] that needs to be removed. This file is literally has the underscores and is empty, as in zero bytes.  It seems IE is using this file as a "connection reference" and will not connect to this site without SSL until this file is deleted. I can manually type the correct url in IE and it will time out even though the site is up and working fine. If I simply delete this file and refresh the page it loads fine.

I have noticed that if I have my default page http://SITE and launch IE in this "failed" state you can actually see the "https://SITE" appear for about 1 second and then switch back to "http://" and time out. Again a wire trace shows this behavior as well, IE "thinks" no matter what I do us SSL on this domain period because that's what was used before as we have this file in the temp files path.

Is there a way to tell IE to actually use http:// on a site that last connected via https://. This is causing users to call in tickets as they get to work and access our internal site until the temp files are deleted and then it will happen again if they connect from offsite and are forced over to SSL, creating this file and then not able to get in when back on our network.

Thanks for any help!


GPO Internet explorer 11

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Hi all I have copied the lastest inetres.admx and inetres.adml to their respective folders under my PolicyDefinitions folder in SYSVOL. I am using a windows 7 workstation with internet explorer 11 installed along with RSAT SP1 + Group Policy editor. Upon opening a policy to edit under User Configuration - Control Panel Settings - Internet Settings, Internet Explorer 10 is missing, only see (5,6,7,8) I've been reading that if I want to use these internet preferences with the new ADMX files I'll have to use a Windows 8 or Windows 2012 machine to do so.  I got that information here . Can anyone confirm that? Seems awfully odd that I couldn't edit internet preferences from my console without WIN8 / 2012

TIA

IEAK IE9 msi - Can not find command line to make install process passive with a reboot prompt

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hey all, this seems to be something simple and I can not get it to work the way intended.   I want IE9 installer to install passively and then prompt for reboot, that's it.  

I have tried using the switches for the standard exe from Microsoft but nothing allows for passive and prompt for reboot

I have now also downloaded and used IEAK and then created msi installs and selected the passive and prompt for reboot options which does not make the installer do that actual behavior by default.  

So I have now actually began trying various commands with the IEAK msi files, none of which are making the behavior I desire happen, passive with prompt for reboot.

Can anyone suggest a proper command line for this?

I have essentially tried these on the different installers I have built, and sometimes entered the /passive on full installers:
msiexec.exe filename /promptrestart
msiexec.exe filename REBOOTPROMPT=""

F12 tools cause Internet Explorer 11 to not open any sites; blank white page only

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On Windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer 11, if I open the F12 tools and close IE without closing the F12 tools, the next time I open IE (for any site) it opens to a blank white page and nothing loads. The workaround is to open IE using the "iexplore.exe -extoff" command > turn on the F12 tools > and then close the F12 tools using the 'X' from the F12 tools pane > and then close IE. After this, IE opens all pages fine. Has anyone else seen this behavior with the F12 tools? Is there possibly a hotfix for this?

prompts

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our developers have an INTRANET site that have links that point to .mdb and .xls files, how do I disable the security prompt. I know IE is doing exactly what it is suppose to but I need to be able to make and exception for certain extentions for the INTRANET zone alone. Can you help?

ms excel problem

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excel cannot open the file .xlsx extension is not valid

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