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Internet Explorer 7 Impressions

Jan 31, 2006 at 8:10pm in Rants, Software

Today Microsoft released the new public Internet Explorer 7 beta. Since I’m a web designer, I thought I would give this new version a try. Internet Explorer 7 is suppose to fix some minor web annoyances such as PNG transparency, so I thought I should check that out and see how it effects my websites. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen.

My attempts to install IE7 have failed miserably. Every time I install, about halfway through the installation I get a nice little error message telling me that msfeeds.dll has failed to load. The installation then pretends to work and eventually fails, telling me to check my system directory for a log with more information. I’ve checked the system directory and the only thing in there is one IE7 log. The log isn’t even that informative; it only tells me it failed and the rest of the installation was skipped. Like I didn’t know that already.

So it looks like I won’t be reviewing Internet Explorer 7 anytime soon. To Microsoft’s benefit, this is still beta software, and I haven’t heard of anyone else having issues, so I must just be an exception. I just hope the next beta version will install; I’m not in the mood to reformat my system just for IE7.

10 Comments

  1. 1 Jonathan on Jan 31, 2006 at 11:16 pm:

    Weird. For me, the install took quite a long time. Around 45% it stopped. But the hard drive was still making noises, just took a long time, then it jumped to like 58% and quickly finished. By the way, how did you get passed the WGA?

  2. 2 cavemonkey50 on Feb 1, 2006 at 12:52 am:

    Weird, 45% is where is fails for me every time. Regarding the WGA, my key validates, so there’s no problem with that.

  3. 3 zedth on Feb 2, 2006 at 6:51 am:

    uninstall photoshop

  4. 4 Jonathan on Feb 2, 2006 at 6:17 pm:

    zedth,

    wtf would that accomplish? i have photoshop and ie7 installed.

  5. 5 cavemonkey50 on Feb 2, 2006 at 6:39 pm:

    I’m seeing a lot of hits coming into my site for the search msfeeds.dll. When I performed that search initially after encountering the error there were no results. It appears that there must be other people out there having the same problem as me. Hopefully, someone will eventually inform me of how they got it to work, or another site will turn up on the search with the answer.

  6. 6 cavemonkey50 on Feb 2, 2006 at 9:23 pm:

    Just incase anyone stops buy here looking for the solution, I finally got Internet Explorer 7 to install. What zedth might have actually worked, because the solution dealt with a corrupt image registry key. Here the steps I followed to fix it as found on Microsoft’s newsgroups:

    1. Go to Start then “Run” type “regedit” in the run box and enter.
    2. In regedit expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in the left pane and the scroll down
    to the entry “.tif”
    3. Right click on the entry in the left pane, select “permissions…”
    4. In the permissions box select the “administrators” group.
    5. Click on the “Advanced” button at the lower right.
    6. Select administrators and click edit.
    7. In the next dialogue check to allow box for “full control”.
    8. Repeat this with the .tiff key
    9. Save and close.
    10. Install IE7

    Now that I have IE7 installed, I’ll give my full impressions tomorrow on a brand new post.

  7. 7 pablo on Feb 26, 2006 at 3:58 am:

    I couldn’t get it to install either. The package itself is a zipped executable so you can view the files with winzip. Inside the package you will find the msfeeds.dll file which you can then extract to windows\system32.

  8. 8 Mike on Mar 21, 2006 at 8:21 pm:

    I tried the registry fix above but that didn’t work out for me. Permissions were already set correctly. I found a newsgroup that suggested one take a look at the updspapi.log in the windows directory. In my log I found this #E008 Setting registry value HKCR\.application\bootstrap
    #E033 Error 5: Access is denied. I setup up the Admin permissions to full control in the registry key and I was able to install successfully.

  9. 9 jeff on Aug 30, 2006 at 4:11 pm:

    i installed the fully cracked version when it was first out and had no problems at all..no wga checks as well :)

  10. 10 BudHead on Jan 9, 2007 at 12:36 am:

    Got to love this IE 7! I installed it, it told me to reboot, then when I did reboot, it wasn’t anywhere to be found. Not one trace of it. Guess it saved me from the pain of wishing I hadn’t!
    Even with a trusted family member working on the “Campus” was amazed…
    Nope, I will stick with the “others”…

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