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Getting The Most From IEAK7

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Hello everyone,

I blogged earlier about the work we have done in IE7 for IT Pros. For those of you who are interested in greater detail, I would like to point you to the recent article published in Technet magazine, titled Utility Spotlight: Internet Explorer Administration Kit. This article is available in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

We are also in the process of writing the new IE7 deployment guide. Expect it to be live on the IEAK7 website in the next few months.

As always, your feedback and comments are appreciated. 

Thanks,

Puneet Arora
Program Manager

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2007
    When will IE7 render the CSS sites as they should?, When... Please I beg you, if there are not plans on getting this fixed, tell me how I can uninstall IE7 and keep getting Windows updates. Peace...

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2007
    I would like to know if and when IE7 is going to be compatible with my Music Match Jukebox.  I've installed IE& twice only to have it trash Music Match and render it unable to be reinstalled until I uninstall IE7. I like IE7 and the tabbed browsing but I can't sacrifice my Music Match and it's ease of handling my music library along with being familiar with it.  I'm now having to run version 7.20.0.173 of Music Match because I lost version 7.5 with the first install of IE7 and the older version is all that I had an installable version of.

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2007
    "As always, your feedback and comments are appreciated." Feedback and comments on this topic (IEAK) especially. :)  How did I know that the first comment I'd read would be unrelated to IEAK but be about something like CSS... Re: MusicMatch.  I would check with MusicMatch/Yahoo to see if they have a fix.  Chances are, MusicMatch does something "bad" which should not even have worked before but happened to by pure chance, and now is broken. The correct question is "I would like to know when MusicMatch will be compatible with IE7", not the other way around.

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2007
    I tried to find out the proper place to report this bug but could not. If you have the solution that will b great else can you please redirect me to the proper place. Problem: I use innerHTML to populate the data in a div. The data contains tables and style tag. The table is shown properly but the style tag is overlooked and so the tables just show u without any style. Is it a bug in IE since it works fine in Mozilla?

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2007
    Paul: try using foobar2000 instead. Musicmatch is comparable to Realplayer and such "wonderful" utilities. You are really better off without it.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2007
    Why does IEAK remain so useless even at version 7? Firefox's Enterprise Kit is vastly superior.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2007
    HTMLElement.prototype HTMLElement.prototype HTMLElement.prototype HTMLElement.prototype Just in case the first 100 Million requests weren't heard.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2007
    > why did IE7 break content that worked perfectly well on IE6 IE6 wasn't perfect and neither are those sites, so "worked perfectly" is quite misleading.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2007
    Could you please give us an approximate timeframe of when IE "Next" will be released?  I read that Chris Wilson said 12-18 months back in October 2006, but also read that a Microsoft official at CES said 18-24 months and there will be no interim service packs for IE7.  Can you please give us an official approximate timeframe of IE "Next" and interim IE7 service packs?

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2007
    I have kept my computer at peak performance by keeping up with downloads, purchasing better add ons, however, there is no add on that is available to fix I.E. 7.  This has to be the worse program ever produced by Bill Gates and family.  My browsing time has doubled, information is lost and access to information is next to impossible.  If this were a horse I would shoot it, but it is not.  Perhaps if Microsoft has a profit this quarter they may think of me and work on a fix for this mess.

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2007
    PLEASE FIX the following:

  1. Each time IE7 is opened, the value of the "Width" entry in registry key HKUuserSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerLinksExplorer automatically increments by 1 !! Stop this crazyness.
  2. Please make IE7 remember the previous PIN STATUS after the FAVORITE CENTER is closed. Each time favorite center is closed then reopen, it will be back to non-pined state regardless if it was pinned before or not. It either should be remembered by default or at least an option somewhere to have it remembered would help. Thank you!

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2007
    It is nice to read all these comments so far on the topic of the IEAK7. - oops! There are no comments on the IEAK7! Some people hereabouts have complained, that nobody listens to their comments. Does one wonder? Well, I dont! What I read is flaming, people putting blame on the IE7, where the blame should go to others (e.g.  Paul Vandivort and his MusicMatch), and irrelevant commets, that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. One good thing about this blog: the names of the posters are given, so you can skip all the raving lunatics, without loosing time, as by now, they are known. A nice addition would be a button, that cancels out all enties, that contain the word "fix", as ALL such entries are irrelevant. I wonder, will there be a comment, that is not off-topic (like the one you are reading ;-)))! IE-Team keep up the good work, and no, I am not asking when IE8 will be there, but I sure will be happy, when it finally comes, and even more so, if the improvements are as big, as between IE6 and IE7! Harry

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2007
    Thank you for making it easier to deploy the best browser on earth, Puneet. It is my dream only ONE browser is used worldwide. It will cut my development time a LOT. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2007
    IEAK7 is now a real bloatware in the same class like other bloatware like Windows Media Player and Real Player. Please let us user choose a real classic mode, and all this "enhanced" things be hided.

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2007
    Fantastic article covering some points I really needed some good usability info for. Best regards from Poland

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2007
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    January 21, 2007
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    January 21, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2007
    Fduch, do you have any addons installed?  I'd try running with addons disabled and seeing if that helps your situation any.

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2007
    The drop down list for the address bar always fills up directories i have browsed and replaces the websites in there all the time. Is there a reason why IE and explorer still use the same place to store that information, and it would be great if you spilt them up. (IE7 on Vista x64)

  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2007
    So this IEAK 7. Does it allow admins to fix the horrible unusable joke IE interface that someone obviously hacked together for a bet with an actual usable interface? Because that horrible awful interface is one of the barriers for deploying IE7 that we've got listed here.

  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2007
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    January 22, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2007
    I don't get how people complain about such a non issue as Clear Type's setting being changed. Did you really feel the need to find this site, and write that just to say your setting got changed?

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
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    January 23, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
    @Aedrin, What's wrong with jake's complaint?  Do you like Clear Type?  I've yet to find a single user that likes it, and it is the first thing I turn off when installing IE7. As for a non-issue, I doubt it.  When I saw my optometrist recently, she mentioned that she had had several complaints of eye-strain since December... in all cases, her clients had not changed any of their PC/TV habits... but they did get that shinny new IE7 with the "tabs". Draw your own conclusions, all I know is that you couldn't pay me to use IE with that "feature" turned on.

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
    "What's wrong with jake's complaint?  Do you like Clear Type?  I've yet to find a single user that likes it, and it is the first thing I turn off when installing IE7." Yes, I have it enabled and I like it. Maybe you just have to configure it propertly? http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx "As for a non-issue, I doubt it." So because a bunch of people like to complain, it's a big issue? It's turned off easily. So yes, it is a non issue. I don't go around complaining how Taskbar Grouping is heresy. It's simply a feature which some people like, and some dislike. It can be turned off in a few clicks.

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
    What's wrong about Jake's complaint is that IE7, on its "first-run" page, tells you of the fact that ClearType was turned on, and allows you to turn it off.  Commenters on this blog were clamoring for IE to give people the chance to turn it off right away, and here they go and do it but it's still not good enough.

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
    "I suppose you know that this is nonsense. Even without a standard, you can judge whether IE's implementation makes sense or not." Making sense != Standard And sometimes vice versa.

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
    @Aedrin  I tried that ClearType tuner, in hopes that it would be the missing feature that should have shipped with IE7 to make it work. Apparently I was wrong.  Still looks like someone smeared oil all over the screen. (cause you get that rainbow effect on all text) Worst of all, that Tuner affect all of Windows! not just IE7!  So now Firefox looks as bad as IE, Exploring, Photoshop, the works. At least in IE7 uninstalling ActiveX is easy!

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2007
    PS as a follow up to my last post... once this ActiveX is installed, it trashes your Windows setting too, not just IE7. After you disable it, and delete it from Internet Options > Manage AddOns... You'll need to go into (its nicely hidden): Control Panel > Display Properties > Appearance Tab > Effects... button > and change the Font smoothing option back to standard, from Clear Type.

  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2007
    "Apparently I was wrong.  Still looks like someone smeared oil all over the screen. " Sounds like you need to invest in a decent screen. Or need to redo the Tuner and choose something else.

  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2007
    "Apparently I was wrong.  Still looks like someone smeared oil all over the screen. " How do you mess up the tuner? You pick an option that looks best -to you-. As Aedrin said, do you really just need to get a decent monitor?

  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2007
    "The problem is, that since there is sub-pixel interpolation going on with clear type, it means that there are colors (red, blue, green) that appear to the left/right of pure black text (most common) on a white screen." Do you have an LCD or a CRT monitor?

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  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2007
    @steve_web I agree. I have two 19" LCDs running at 1280x1024. I've tried using ClearType, but after about an hour of using Visual Studio, I start to get a headache and I can feel the strain in my eyes. Standard text rendering is so much cleaner.  Nice clean, sharp edges without fuzzy colors surrounding all the text. Yes, I've tried using the ClearType tuner. It solves nothing.

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2007
    The artical is very informative and so far the tool seems to be better then the old one. I like the fact that the options are better laid out when you go through the process. I am looking forward to the deployment guide, just one request...please make it easier to read/follow than the one for sysprep. :-)