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    IE8 install problems? my solution

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by dockster, Jun 23, 2009.

  1. dockster

    dockster Notebook Guru

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    just posting this in case it helps others. I have a 64 bit version of Vista. I had changed my registry keys for the program files path to get rid of the (x86) part of the path. So both 64 bit and 32 bit paths pointed to c:\program files

    In order to properly install IE8, I had to change the default paths back to include (x86). Then it worked okay. took me a while to figure out why the darn thing wasn't working
     
    dockster, Jun 23, 2009
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    I take a mental note of this next time when I decide to play with the registry keys.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jun 23, 2009
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