Comments on: Taking Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 preview through install and uninstall, step-by-step, with screenshots

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:16:56 +0000

Not sure if you can revert, Sheila I haven’t tested that with the new official version. Worked fine with the beta, but this is new territory. If any other readers know the answer to Sheila’s question please respond.

By: Sheila Marion

Sheila Marion — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:14:48 +0000

I am having loads of probs with the new IE7 if i delete it will i have probs getting IE 6 back ?

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By: Shawn Smith

Shawn Smith — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:36:54 +0000

Paul and Brian, If I could see you, I would give a double thumbs up. I have been struggling with this uninstall for a couple hours. Who would of thought to blame the sound scheme. My custom sound scheme was just to disable most of the sounds, I find some of them very irratating and useless. So disabling it allowed me to uninstall ie7.

Thanks.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 06 May 2006 01:15:43 +0000

Hi All,

If you get the hang during updating registry just delete any custom sound schemes and all should be fine..

Best Regards.
Brian.

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By: George

George — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:36:24 +0000

Yah, I had used a custom sound scheme. But how do I go about removing the keys from the backup list? (What keys? What Backup list?) Sorry if I sounded like a fool, but I really don’t have a clue.

By: Paul Ternahan

Paul Ternahan — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:32:57 +0000

I got an email for the program manager, he gave me some very useful information. He asked if I had installed a custom sound scheme after I had installed IE7. Well I had just formatted my hard drive and IE7 was one of the first things I installed. Here are his comments to my response:

That’s fine. If you used a custom sound scheme then I’m pretty sure I

know what the problem is. It’s really weird, too. We were backing up

reg keys that were created by IE7 (obviously a bug), but somewhere if a

sub key was created (the sound scheme), then uninstall hung and we’re

just using a setup API to do all the registry updates so it’s somewhat

unknown to us. The fix was just to remove the keys from the backup list

since they would never exist in IE6 anyway, but it was an awful

consequence for a simple error.

I know this isn’t much help now, I ended up doing pretty much losing this battle, I had to do a repair of XP, took a grand total of 30 mins or so. At least a format wasn’t necessary this time. Good luck hope this helps ans eases the pain a bit.

By: George

George — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:47:06 +0000

Yeah, I’ve the same problem as Paul as well. The Uninstaller hangs up on the updating registry. Anyone has figured out a way to overcome this problem?