Again, installing IE8 could not possibly have caused other browsers to fail<\/i><\/b>.
The environment in which you installed it could have.<\/p>\n
1. If you don’t own the computer in question, you should NOT be upgrading
IE, period.<\/p>\n
2. The various security measures put in place by your employer may well be
related to the problems you encountered after installing IE8. These include
any GPOs and Admin Templates.<\/p>\n
3. For best results, you should disable (a) the anti-virus application, (b)
all real-time “system protections” (e.g., those afforded by any third-party
application, (c) any third-party firewall and then (d) enable the Windows
Firewall prior to installing AND uninstalling an IE upgrade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
However, I disagree! IE8 or some other evil that gets done by it’s installer screws things up. Several other folks with this same issue uninstalled IE8 and their problem was gone. I uninstalled IE8 and problem gone. The bad news was that it still left IE7 behind.<\/p>\n
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