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The furore that stood for my (and other’s) attempts to install and uninstall Internet Explorer beta 2 back in April is well documented – see this post

. I consequently held off installing Beta 3, simply because I didn’t have the heart to tackle all the problems again. However, with the impending ‘urgent’ automatic installations of Internet Explorer 7 via Windows Update which are expected some time this month, I thought I’d get things over with.

What follows are a few images that show the ‘progress’ of the installation. If this all sounds a bit too pointless and pathetic, well – possibly true – but then you must have missed my joys at Beta 2.

With no further ado, the installation of Internet Explorer 7 RC1….

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I downloaded the installation from the IE7 homepage

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and then meet with the first ironic message:

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This file can potentially harm your computer? You’re not wrong – beta 2 completely destroyed my computer. On run software from publishers you can trust! Ha! Trust? What about last time? Anyway, I decide to continue….

The ‘welcome to the party’ screen. All seems to be going very smoothly so far. I’m thus very worried indeed. Recalling the problems from last time, I make sure I have copies of the entire installation in an easily accessible folder. I certainly don’t want to horrors of Normalize.dll returning. Anyway, I decide to continue and press ‘Next’. Not particularly visible in this screenshot, I do admit, but just go with the flow here. There hasn’t been a crash, there hasn’t been any swearing. Yet.

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“You must restart your computer before using Internet Explorer 7″. The last time I did this our PC locked up for about eight hours. You’ll also note the comments on the IE blog in the background of this image “…. screwed up explorer.exe… refused to run at all…”. Oh dear. What have I done? What should I press? I need to test this latest installation just to make sure that the fixes to ensure Flash runs smoothly on my websites work – but it certainly isn’t worth all the hassle of last time.

I decide to stop messing about and just restart. With trepidation I click ‘Restart Now’…..

Last time this caused immense problems and locked everything up. A lovely message letting me know how “normalize.dll wasn’t found” was all that was said. Windows loaded and that message appeared. That was it. Nothing more, nothing less. What would happen this time? Do we really care? Well, yes – we do – and no laughing at what happens…..

Windows restarts itself. The Windows ‘welcome’ screen is displayed for a little longer that normal but then the following image appears:

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… with absolutely no problems at all! I repeat – with absolutely no problems at all

! Windows loads without any “normalize.dll” messages, no “Cannot be found” or “Unlucky – it crashed – as has Windows”. It works!

I run Internet Explorer and the strange things keep happening. It continues to work – no crashes, no error messages – just a browser. Ok, an ugly browser, but it works:

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Amazing. No nightmares, no errors. Internet Explorer 7.

So, what have I done differently? Nothing really. I’m no longer running Norton Antivirus, having replaced it with F-Secure Five Moons Plaza film . Don’t know if this makes a difference, but some users did point to certain anti-virus software causing problems. I’m just amazed it worked. It shouldn’t really be like that – but with the previous nightmare installations this one literally went like a dream.

Thank you Microsoft. So, what now for my browser choice? Straight back to Firefox. Internet Explorer 7 is strictly for testing purposes only.