h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I might give it another go now they've amended the ToS.
I guess it's really a matter of getting used to something new.

hi bel
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did you check out the vlc, to see if its usefull to you.
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jimx

I've been with VLC for ages now, thanks, Jim.

Apparently, there's a good Post article coming out about Google Chrome, written by one of h2g2's top technical experts. I think.

hi bel
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sorry i didnt reply, my digi system as been off for nearly two days.
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and the bad weather made it impossible to go to the cyber,
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i prefer the vlc or alternative realplayer, to the windowmedia, there is to many options for downloads for the codec,did my head in at the cyber lol jimx

In a triumph of pigheadedness over the recommendations of everyone on the internet I've downloaded IE8.

It promises to be faster. Not that I can tell. In fact, the only difference I've noticed so far is the annoying "Internet Explorer is currently running with add-ons disabled" toolbar thingy across the top of the page (below the tabs). So I clicked on it, enabled all the add-ons...yet it won't go away.

Also, none of the tabs seem to be different colours - wasn't this supposed to be a feature?

Other than that, it looks almost exactly the same. And as I say, not noticeably quicker. So what's the point of it?

RF

This is rubbish. It won't open Yahoo! Mail or other Yahoo! applications.

How do I get back to IE7?

RF,evilgrin>

Can't you delete IE8, then download IE7?

I intended to try IE8, but stopped the download the moment it wanted to check my PC. WtF for?? If it's a free browser, of what importance is it which OS I have?

You can't completely uninstall IE on a Windows system - because then it uninstalls your File Explorer, too!

Easiest way to roll back would be to do a system restore.

And why can't you have both?

I say that about riches and women B'Elone would do

Oh, I didn't sugggest you use both.

I'd settle for onemoney!

How do you do a system restore then?

RF

Given the choice between a woman and money, so would I.

no answer there B'El

No idea, RF. Hope that Mala knows it. I would know on my old PC, but this one is completely different (having windows in English to start with), and I can't find half of the stuff I used to know where it was on *my* PC.

I'll assume you're in Windows XP...

Save your work (all documents, e-mails, etc will still be there!) and then close your programs.

Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools, -> System Restore.

Select "Restore to an earlier point" (not "set restore point") and then you'll get a calendar where you can pick a restore point - unless you fiddled with the settings, it'll have set one before every install.

Pick the nearest one before you installed IE8, and run it - it'll take a few minutes, and restart itself.

You might have to re-update your Antivir, but that should be it.

Nothing is that easy with IE, it never worked when I tried to do it on my old PC. However, it's worth a try.

Or rather, with windows, not IE.