IE7 -- automatically installing???

[servotron]

My wife's business computer.... Running XP Pro, with automatic updates turned on.

Went in to work on the computer two days ago.... IE6. Went in yesterday, IE7. I am the ONLY person that would ever install anything on that computer... but lo and behold, there it is... IE7.

Bizarre? Is MS pushing it out to machines as an automatic update?

[Grouchy]

My laptop is set up to download but not install updates. I really didn't want IE7 on the laptop because nobody who uses the laptop uses IE (Firefox and Opera). It nagged me so to be honest, I installed it. I get so sick and tired of being nagged to install stuff.

I got a message basically stating "we believe that IE7 is an essential upgrade so you should install it because if you don't you won't be secure and someone will eventually find you and eat your kids."...

So it installed it.

If you are set to automagically keep your system up to date, then yeah, like WGA and some other little pieces they probably got downloaded and magically appeared.

Personally, I use the setting that automatically downloads but does not install.

[servotron]

I mean... I LIKE ie7. But I'm a web developer, and I can't have 6 and 7 installed at the same time, and i'm not developing for 7 yet.... so I don't want to have IE7 magically appear on my machine unless it also appears on everyone else's... I have to be using the current big-dogs to make sure what I code ends up looking right on the most machines.

[Andy Bennett]

I run Linux and Firefox but I've got a little portable which runs windoze XP. The thing is it's only a 1.1Ghz Celeron with 128Mb and a 15Gb HDD. It used to take about 2 minutes to start up but after installing IE7 it now takes about 8 minutes.

Progress, eh!!!

[chapulincolorado]

.....and not IE is....tabbed! :eek: They finally gave in. :D

[Kryptonite]

.....and not IE is....tabbed! :eek: They finally gave in. :D

I posted on that atrocity a while back. It's tabbed, yet you always have one tab open.. can't close all tabs for more screen space as in the other browsers.

Also, did you notice how the reload and stop buttons are on the other side of the URL bar, away from the back and forward buttons? What's the point of that?

[chapulincolorado]

I posted on that atrocity a while back. It's tabbed, yet you always have one tab open.. can't close all tabs for more screen space as in the other browsers.

Also, did you notice how the reload and stop buttons are on the other side of the URL bar, away from the back and forward buttons? What's the point of that?

...and I am not sure if it just met, but I did notice that it takes a bit to get the other tab going.

[spejic]

Yes, IE7 was an automatic update. However, lots of businesses (like mine - a very big software company) depended on websites that didn't work there. Microsoft actually released a special program that would prevent IE7 from being automatically installed. So my work machine is still IE6, even though it has automatic updates.

I'm surprised at the late date of the install, however. It should have been updated months ago. It might be that her IT people decided that now was a good time to update to IE7 and pulled the blocking software without her knowing.

[Chicago1871]

Is MS pushing it out to machines as an automatic update?
Yes.

[Grouchy]

I mean... I LIKE ie7. But I'm a web developer, and I can't have 6 and 7 installed at the same time, and i'm not developing for 7 yet.... so I don't want to have IE7 magically appear on my machine unless it also appears on everyone else's... I have to be using the current big-dogs to make sure what I code ends up looking right on the most machines.
On a side note, if you are a web developer and want to keep old versions of IE6, etc. or test new versions of IE then I highly recommend VMware workstation (VMWare.com) or VirtualPC (Microsoft). Theoretically you can have just about any combination of IE/Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera etc. on any operating system supported. If you need to debug something that ain't working in IE6.01 but works for something else, simply start the appropriate virtual machine.

If your company is using WSUS or SMS (or comparable Unix or Novell product) to do "update management" then they can always hold back the IE7 update.