I wasn’t paying attention closely enough last night and before I realized it I had accepted the recently released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 onto my work machine. The install went smoothly enough but since then?
Not so great.
Internet Explorer stops working very frequently now. The funny thing is, if I just click the red X everything is fine — nothing is actually broken (as far as I can tell) but that dialog is driving me nuts!
Before you say “Stop using IE!” let me just say that I can’t. Some of our productivity apps at work are IE only. Right, wrong or indifferent, that’s just how it is.
Anyone else have similar issue(s)? I think tomorrow I’ll disable all the add-ins and see how things go. While writing this it occurred to me that perhaps it isn’t IE but one of the add-ins…
I hadn’t noticed it until you mentioned it, but I am having the same exact symptoms. Maybe MS is trying to motivate people to use IE9.
Got the same problem in terms of browser usage at my workplace. The teachers have to submit grades through a program that uses Java Initiator and it only supports IE. If there is a problem with that application, it is usually one of three issues: add-ons, IE security settings, or J-Initiator itself.
To allow other browsers as a default, I’ve created shortcuts to IE that automatically launch the needed web app.