[Lightning Star]

Alright, so I updated to Internet Explorer 7 last night, and today when I went to use it, every time I typed, my computer would restart. Then I tried opening the On Screen Keyboard (which has so long been my friend), I didn't even click a single letter, and it still crashed. I updated all the Microsoft Updates, and still nothing. My parents made me get rid of Firefox, as they are ignorant and think it's some sort of internet cracking/hacking software (e.e) but finally I used my dad's computer to get the download and put it on here (that's how I'm typing this). I did find something about IE crashing with handwriting features and how to fix that, but I've decided it's just safer to forget about using IE 7 all together.

Go figure. Me, Microsoft, and a new product always equals CRASH.

[Sea of Time]

This has never happened to me, even though I've been using IE7 for at least two months now. But my solution for you? Buy a Mac.

[Neon]

No, macs aren't nearly as good as people say they are, especially the new ones.

Try using firefox, if your computer still crashes when you type into the browser, it's something else wrong with your computer.

[Eugine]

It happened to me when I used the beta, but since the official release it worked fine for me... well it worked just as good as IE6.

How I solved it? I just used Firefox :(

[Lan]

Yeah, with Firefox there's no reason to use IE at all, unless some web page refuses to run with anything else. I'd tell your parents that IE is more of a hacking/cracking tool, in that it's easier to hack into than the fox. Whatever. The only improvement to IE 7, at least in terms of usability, is tabs, which Firefox has had for some time now. Plus, since they moved all the navigation buttons all over the place, (with the exception of tabs) IE 6 is almost better than 7. A way to use Firefox is to get Firefox Portable, which will allow you to use Firefox off a thumb drive, or even a harddrive, without interfering with anything already on the computer. Install it to a directory, that's all. No registry entries, no start menu entry, nothing. It won't even save cookies/bookmarks/whatever to the same place. It's perfect for you! Get it here: http://portableapps....irefox_portable
You don't actually have to save it to a thumb drive, installing it on any directory on your regular hard drive will work just fine. That's what I use at school all the time, since it won't allow us to install programs there, either.

[Hinoa]

Sea_of_Time, on Mar 3 2007, 07:15 PM, said:

Buy a Mac.

That's MY line, you jerk!

Anyway, you can try reinstalling it. If that fails or you don't want to bother, just use Firefox, like everyone else here has already said.

[Elliott]

I haven't used Internet Exploder once by choice in the past 2 and a half years. Go me. Once you get the Fox, there's no going back. To be honest I didn't even know IE7 had been released ;p .

[Lemontime]

Sea_of_Time, on Mar 4 2007, 11:15 AM, said:

But my solution for you? Buy a Mac.

Absolutely and 100% per-cently agree'd.
Mac is the way to go.

Neon, on Mar 4 2007, 12:51 PM, said:

No, macs aren't nearly as good as people say they are, especially the new ones.

omg bill g8s r da b3st lolololol

[Neon]

I think you are confused. Windows fans do not have a "zomg Bill Gates is jesus" attitude, you're thinking of the mac fans that are all "omg macs own j00 windows is teh sux lolol I want to have Steve Jobs' babies".

[Lemontime]

Mac fans are far more sophisticated than windows fans..
Neon r rong agen

[Wiflewood]

Awww.. Did the Adverts tell you that Mac owners were cool and Windows owners were Office people?

Shame you believed it eh.

[Lemontime]

No..
Knowing alot of Mac users and alot of PC users, I can safely say PC fan-boys are idiots.

[Sea of Time]

It's personal preference! But when you compare 1000+ viruses with 0, you'd think a winner was apparent.

[Split Infinity]

When it comes to the internet, nothing is foolproof.

[Hinoa]

True. But I will also say that most hackers are lazy arses, and can't be bothered to write viruses just for Macs. I mean, Macs make up a minority of the computer base--I think <10% now--so why bother when the remaining is mostly Windows? You wanna cause chaos, go for the greatest number of computers.

All the same, I've installed antivirus software on my Mac. You can never be too careful. ;)

[Caael]

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20060513.jpg

Hahaha, harsh but funny. Although it is very biased.

[Toasty]

When I'm finished learning computer programming, I'm gonna write a virus for macs. Then you'll neve be able to say macs don't have viruses! AHAHAHA......ha........yeah. I'll probably give it the ability to asess it's environment and kick down firewalls like tissue paper. And the take over <10% of the world.

[PDM]

My PC has never crashed.

Although, my friend's Mac crashses on a daily basis.

[Gardna]

It's because MacOS is the ****tiest operating system ever made. iPods are the only thing that keeps Apple in green numbers.

[Someone Else]

Macs suck because they don't get any good games.

Anyways this went terribly off-topic. Icy can't use FF because her parents say so.

[Lightning Star]

But alas, who cares. They're technically ignorant. (Except in learning how to ban my computer from our router. That can be a problem v.v;) I'm using Firefox anyways. IE is only good for web pages that were built for IE, and don't display pages well on FF. I can live with that. I can't live with my computer crashing every time I type.

[Someone Else]

All I can think of what you can do is to persuade your parents to use FF. And change your IP so they can't ban you from internets. If you think you can't do that, I dunno why you made this topic.

[Gardna]

Wind Dude, on Mar 13 2007, 12:34 AM, said:

Macs suck because they don't get any good games.

Anyways this went terribly off-topic. Icy can't use FF because her parents say so.

There's WoW for Mac, what more could you possibly want? :D

[Neon]

Blizzard games are coded so that they run on both OSs. However if you ever read the patch notes, you will see that compatibility with windows takes preference over compatibility with mac. It's not uncommon for them to have about 10 serious bug fixes for macs.

[Toasty]

Wind Dude, on Mar 12 2007, 05:01 PM, said:

All I can think of what you can do is to persuade your parents to use FF. And change your IP so they can't ban you from internets. If you think you can't do that, I dunno why you made this topic.

You can set up a router to be password protected, and if she doesn't know the password, she can't connect to the router no matter what her IP adress is.

[Somia]

Shouldn't this be underthe tech section.