I am in the process of building the computer that will run my new 5000A. It's running XP PRO and after the intial install I left it go find all of the updates. Of course one of the updates it found was IE7. I don't use IE as my browser but I left the update install. That turned out to be a big mistake.
When any of my computers start up, they run a batch file that maps several network drives. When the new machine tried to do that I got a security warning and it would not run the batch file until I clicked on a dialogue box. I'd never seen that before and after some research discovered that I needed to change a setting in IE7. Why should IE7 have any effect on batch files? The next odd thing I noticed was that the little time set program I used would not work. It complained that the computer had no Internet connection, which was not true. The same program was running on other machines within my home network so I knew it wasn't a router issue. Then I tried to run Windows Media Encoder on the new computer to stream some audio to a few friends. WME would not run reliably and would fail with an error message that indicated a lack of processor power! Not a chance. This was an AMD 6000+ dual core and WME had previously been running on a P3-233MHz machine. So I decided to uninstall IE7 just to see what would happen. Yep, you guessed it. With IE7 gone, so were my other problems. WME ran just fine, and my time set program also worked. I had the exact same behavior with the time set program on another XP pro machine but it appears not to have affected my Windows Media Center laptop. In any event, IE7 is now removed from all of my computers. My 5000A isn't here yet so I have not run the console program. But you have to wonder what other stupid problems IE7 may cause with the Flex software, or with other software typically run on a ham station computer. My advice to all is DO NOT INSTALL IE7! de Rick, KN3C No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1169 - Release Date: 12/3/2007 22:56 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
