Knowledge Base articles for Internet Explorer 7+
IE8
What?
How?
Problems
- A blank Internet
Explorer window does not close automatically as expected after you open
an Office document in Internet Explorer 7 (943117)
- A
blank Web page is displayed when you start Internet Explorer 7
(945385)
- A COM server may not exit as expected after the object is destroyed if you start Internet Explorer 7 as the COM server (950935)
- A
script may not run as expected in Windows Internet Explorer when you open an
HTML page and the HTML page contains an element that has injected HTML code
(948550)
- A
site
does not run in the expected security zone in Internet Explorer 7 if
the site address in the security zone uses a wildcard character
(939940)
- A Web page is blank in Internet Explorer 7
(933006)
- A
Web page may not be displayed correctly when you use the zoom feature
in Windows Internet Explorer 7 (933053)
- After
you put a Windows Explorer window into full-screen mode on a secondary
monitor, the navigation bar does not appear on a Windows Vista-based or
Windows Server 2008-based computer (949843)
- After
a pop-up window opens in Internet Explorer 7, a half-transparent band
appears at the top of the new Internet Explorer window (949428)
- After
you
append some characters in an HTML page text box in Internet Explorer 7,
the original characters in the text box are replaced with the newly
typed characters (939913)
- After
you install Windows Internet Explorer 7 on a computer that is running
Windows XP with Service Pack 2, a "Restore My Active Desktop" button
appears on the desktop (929200)
- After
you reapply Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings on a
computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed, a pop-up blocker
exception site that you manually added is missing (944520)
- After
you use the Internet Explorer Customization Wizard to remove the
default elements of some features in Internet Explorer 7, these
elements still exist in Internet Explorer 7 (941938)
- An Enhanced Meta File (EMF) image may be
displayed incorrectly in Internet Explorer (938311)
- An
HTML application that uses the "onbeforeunload" event closes
unexpectedly in Internet Explorer 7 when you click "Cancel"
(946214)
- An Internet Explorer 7 browser window does not open on an alternative desktop on a Windows Vista-based computer (948140)
- An
Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) Preview #2 update is
available to disable the "Click to activate" behavior (947518)
- An
Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) update is
available to disable the "Click to activate" behavior
(945007)
- BUG: Error message when you visit a Web page
or interact with a Web application in Internet Explorer: "Operation
aborted" (927917)
-
Certain
characters in a file name may be converted to underscores when a user downloads
a file by using Windows Internet Explorer 7 (949197)
- Certificate
error Web page is displayed when you try to visit an SSL Web site by
using Internet Explorer 7: "There is a problem with this website's
security certificate" (950067)
- Cyrillic letters are not displayed correctly
in Web forms when you use Internet Explorer 7 (934362)
- Error
message after you install a Windows Internet Explorer 7 update from
Windows Update or from Microsoft Update: "Webpage cannot be displayed"
(942818)
- Error
message when you open a Web page in Windows Internet Explorer 7:
"Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close"
(936904)
- Error message when you perform an operation
in a frame on a Web page in Internet Explorer 7:"Access denied"
(938302)
- Error message when you start Internet
Explorer 7 or try to access a Web site: "Internet Explorer cannot
display the Webpage" (926431)
- Error message when you try to access a Web site in Internet Explorer 7: "Page cannot be found" (954249)
- Error
message when you try to start Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista:
"You must be an administrator to open Internet Explorer on this desktop"
(935855)
- Error
message when you try to log on to a Web site that requires Kerberos
authentication by using Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows XP SP2-based
computer: "Access is denied due to invalid credentials"
(938305)
- Error message when you try to access a Web site in Internet Explorer 7: "Page cannot be found" (954249)
- Error
message when you try to move or resize a window on a computer that has
Windows Internet Explorer 7 installed: "An error has occurred in the
script on this page" (942173)
- Error
message when you try to print an Office document that appears in a
frame in Internet Explorer 7: "The document in this frame cannot be
printed as laid out" (933256)
- Error
message when you try to use a dial-up connection in Windows
Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows Vista-based computer: "Cannot write to
the telephone book" (934588)
- Error message when you try to uninstall
Internet Explorer 7: "Setup cannot copy the file Ieeula.chm"
(934645)
- Error
message when you try to view a Web page that contains IFRAME elements
in Internet Explorer: “Object does not support this property
or
method” (924926)
- Error
message when you use Internet Explorer 6 on a Windows Server 2003
Service Pack 2-based computer to browse a Web page: "Microsoft Internet
Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" (953031)
- Error
message when you use Internet Explorer 7 to browse certain Web sites
after you install the MS07-045 cumulative security update: "ASP
0177:8000ffff" (945701)
- Error message when you use Internet Explorer
7 to visit a Web page: "Error on Page" or "Permission denied"
(938301)
- FIX:
An application uses the Favorites folder of Internet Explorer 7 as the
root directory when the application calls the "DoOrganizeFavDlg"
function (933014)
- FIX: An Internet shortcut does not display
the correct icon in Internet Explorer 7 (935779)
- FIX: Internet Explorer 6 and Internet
Explorer 7 may not find the text even though the Web page contains the
text (936955)
- FIX: Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista
starts to render a Web page before the handling of the "onload" event
has finished (935851)
- FIX:
Internet Explorer 7 may not respond to any mouse operation when you
visit a Web page that contains the select.style.visibility='hidden'
clause in an onblur event (944400)
- FIX:
Windows Internet Explorer 7 may exit unexpectedly when an application
calls the GetAcceptLanguages function on a computer that is running
Windows Vista (936950)
- FIX:
The buffer size of the InternetQueryOptionW function is half of its
actual size if you use INTERNET_OPTION_URL as the second parameter in
Internet Explorer 7 (935777)
-
FIX:
The content of a Web page does not appear to update as expected when
you use the document.open method in Internet Explorer 7 (933182)
- FIX: The CPU usage on the computer may
increase to 100 percent when you try to print an HTML page in Windows
Internet Explorer 7 (933264)
- FIX:
The InternetQueryOptionW function returns a value of true when you use
the INTERNET_OPTION_URL option flag as the second parameter in Internet
Explorer 7 (935776)
- FIX:
The item may not be selected when you use the windowless SELECT control
to create a list in Internet Explorer 7 (936953)
- FIX:
When you access an external document by using a link in an inline frame
in Internet Explorer 7, the value of the document object is returned as
"undefined" (935579)
- FIX:
When
you try to use Windows Internet Explorer 7 to display a Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) file on a local computer, Internet Explorer 7 cannot
display the SVG file (935575)
- FIX:
Windows Internet Explorer 7 does not download an ActiveX control that
is referenced in a CODEBASE attribute when you open a Web page that
contains the OBJECT element and the CLSID attribute is missing
(934014)
- FIX:
Windows Internet Explorer 7 may crash when you use it to visit a Web
site (935544)
- Hyperlinks do not work in Outlook Express
after you upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 (929867)
- Icons
that are associated with the current version of Internet Explorer are
incorrect after you install or uninstall Internet Explorer 7
(926715)
- Internet
Explorer 7 does not send you any notification if it cannot obtain the
Certificate Revocation List (946323)
- Internet Explorer 7 does not start correctly
or stops responding unexpectedly (926449)
- Internet Explorer 7 exits immediately when
you start it in Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003 (928427)
- Internet
Explorer 7 incorrectly recognizes an intranet Web site as an Internet
Web site (936611)
- Internet
Explorer 7 no longer works after you move the contents of the Temporary
Internet Files folder to another folder on a Windows Vista-based
computer (937828)
- Internet
Explorer 7 may exit unexpectedly when multiple tabs are open,
and you close a tab that contains a non-HTML file (932930)
- Internet Explorer 7 may not handle the "302 Found" status correctly for Windows Live ID sites and for services authentication (949059)
- Internet Explorer 7 may stop responding when
you try to resize a frame (931278)
- Internet Explorer 7 stops responding on a
computer that is running the Korean version of Yahoo! Toolbar
(932543)
- In Internet Explorer 7, RSS feeds are not
listed, or you cannot subscribe to RSS feeds (926448)
- Internet Explorer 7 may exit immediately
when it includes an add-on and you start it in Windows XP or in Windows
Server 2003 (928426)
- Internet
Explorer automatically changes top-level domains (TLDs) when you add
them to the "Trusted sites" security zone or to the "Restricted sites"
security zone (952690)
- Internet Explorer experiences a script error if Avaya Webdialer is installed (953796)
-
Internet Explorer uses HTTP/1.0 GET requests instead of HTTP/1.1 GET requests to
connect to a Web site (947513)
- Internet Explorer uses the wrong character
set when it renders an HTML page (928847)
- In
the installation title bar, the words "UNKNOWN PUBLISHER" appear
instead of the organization name when you install an Internet Explorer
7 package in Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003 (927759)
- Internet Explorer uses the wrong character
set when it renders an HTML page (928847)
- Maximum URL length is 2,083 characters in Internet Explorer (208427)
- Message
in the Information bar in Internet Explorer 7 when you browse to a
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or to a SharePoint Server 2007
site: "The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX
Control'" (931509)
- Microsoft Security Advisory: Blended threat from combined attack using Apple’s Safari on the Windows platform (953818)
- Multiple windows open when you start Windows
Internet Explorer 7 after you upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista
(931954)
- "My
Computer" folder opens instead of the Web folder in Windows Internet
Explorer 7 when you use certain Web folder behaviors to open a Web
folder (938203)
- No options appear under Settings on the
Advanced tab of the "Internet Options" dialog box in Windows Internet
Explorer 7 (928849)
- On
a computer that has Windows Internet Explorer 7 installed, the security
zone of the network drive that you map by using the subst command
appears as "Internet" (941000)
- Persistent cookies are not shared between
Internet Explorer 7 and Office applications in Windows Vista
(932118)
- Problems
may occur when you try to use POST method or the GET method to pass
Form data in a Web page in Internet Explorer 7 or in Internet Explorer 6
(939941)
- Relative
file: URIs of the form
"/<DriveLetter>:/<path>/<FileName>"
do not resolve
correctly in Internet Explorer 7 (933105)
- RSS feeds may not be updated in Internet
Explorer 7 (926447)
- Session
cookies may be lost after you open a file that has a local file
path or a UNC file path in Internet Explorer 7
(935778)
- Some
customized security settings for the Trusted sites zone in Internet
Explorer 7 are reset to the default values on a Windows Vista-based
computer (943141)
- Some
customized Internet Explorer settings revert to their default
configurations after you install cumulative update 942615 (MS07-069),
944533 (MS08-010), or 947864 (MS08-024) on a Windows Vista-based
computer (951800)
- Some
Web applications that require a large block of contiguous memory may
not run after you install cumulative update 931768 (MS07-027) for
Windows Internet Explorer 7 (950060)
- Streaming content stops, and you may receive
an error message when you click "Next" in Windows Media Player
(934113)
- The
Address bar is displayed unexpectedly when you use Internet Explorer 7
to browse a Web page that you developed (942710)
- The
AutoComplete feature does not work in Windows Internet Explorer 7
(942090)
- The computer may respond very slowly as the
Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents in Internet Explorer 7
(928089)
- The
content color does not appear as expected when you view a Web page that
uses a customized ICM profile for the ICMFilter filter in Internet
Explorer 7 (942171)
- The
default system icon is displayed for Internet shortcut files when you
use Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows XP SP2-based or Windows
Vista-based computer (930426)
- The
"Enable personalized favorites menu" option in Internet Explorer 7 does
not hide your less frequently used favorites as expected (950028)
- The
encoded characters are not removed from the URL when you retrieve the
"document.URLUnencoded" property in Windows Internet Explorer 7
(927846)
- The
exception handler may not catch an exception in Internet Explorer 7 or
in Internet Explorer 6 when you view a Web page that throws an
exception from a function that is called through the expando property
(944397)
- The
"File Download – Security Warning" dialog box opens when you
try to open Internet Explorer 7 (937409)
- The
HTML events may not work correctly when a managed application tries to
interact with an HTML document by using the MSHTML primary interop
assembly component (934368)
- The installation of Windows Internet
Explorer 7 never finishes (926716)
- The
Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings for the Content
Advisor do not work on client computers that have Internet Explorer 7
installed (950065)
- The
"Intranet Sites: Include all local (intranet) sites not listed in other
zones" policy setting does not function as expected in Internet
Explorer 7 (941001)
- The Login page does not appear when you use
Windows Internet Explorer 7 to access a Novell GroupWise
WebAccess-based Web site (938310)
- The
Mail button no longer appears on the toolbar, and there are changes in
the way that you access mail-related functionalities in Internet
Explorer 7 (926325)
- The
Open button does not appear in the "File Download - Security Warning"
dialog box when you try to download a certificate file in Internet
Explorer 7 (934369)
- The Reset Internet Explorer Settings (RIES)
feature does not reset some settings in Internet Explorer 7
(926717)
- The
text size setting that you specify is not applied to all Internet
Explorer 7 windows that you open on a Windows Vista-based computer
(939944)
- The
translucent layers intermittently turn gray when you browse a Web page
that contains translucent layers by using Internet Explorer 7 (942174)
- The
words "UNKNOWN PUBLISHER" appear in the installation title bar instead
of the organization name when you install an Internet Explorer 7
package in Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003 (927759)
- Thumbnail pictures not shown in the Online
Print Ordering Wizard on a Windows XP-based computer (929548)
- Unable
to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 if Service Pack 2 is installed later
on Windows Server 2003 (948093)
- Values
from the "Additional Settings" page in the Internet Explorer
Administration Kit 7 (IEAK 7) Customization Wizard are written to the
Internet Explorer 7 configuration files even though you do not change
the values (945003)
- VML element is not displayed in strict
standards-compliant mode in Internet Explorer (932175)
- Warning
message when you upgrade Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 7 on a
Windows Vista-based computer: "This program will open outside of
Protected mode" (934282)
- Web-related applications may not work correctly after you install cumulative security update for Internet Explorer MS08-024 (9549543)
- When
you browse a Web page by using Internet Explorer 7 on a terminal
server, the colors that are displayed in the MDI child forms of the Web
page may be incorrect (950054)
- When
you copy text from a Rich Text box in Infopath on a computer that
has Internet Explorer 7 installed, the pasted text unexpectedly appears
inside a table cell (937053)
- When you download a file in Internet Explorer 7, the space character in the file name is changed to a underscore (952730)
- When you maximize a Windows Internet
Explorer 7 window, some events do not occur (936949)
- When
you open a Web page by typing a File URI in the in Windows Internet
Explorer 7 Address bar on a Windows Vista-based computer, the query
string disappears from the Address bar after the Web page opens
(942172)
- When you try to open a file by typing the URL location of the file, the application that opens the file may not start correctly (954077)
- When you try to open a shortcut in Internet Explorer 7, the target executable file cannot be loaded (952729)
- When you try to open an FTP site by using a
Web proxy in Windows Internet Explorer 7, you cannot open the FTP Web
site (932562)
- When
you
use Internet Explorer 7 to browse a Web page, the state of the "Edit
with <HTML editor>" command on the File menu may be
inconsistent
with the state of the "Edit with <HTML editor>" command
on the
Page menu (939946)
- When
you use Internet Explorer 7 to visit a Web page that contains IFRAME
elements, the contents of an edited IFRAME element are not rendered
correctly (943245)
- When you use Internet Explorer 7 to visit a
Web site that includes certain VBScript functions, Internet Explorer 7
may crash (940284)
- When you use the "Run As" shortcut menu to start Internet Explorer 7, more child windows may open than you expect on a Web page (945688)
- Windows
Internet Explorer 7 stops responding if a modal dialog box is open when
you try to redraw a Windows Internet Explorer 7 window (935903)
- Windows Live Writer crashes (951068)
- You can write in a read-only pane on a Web page that uses DHTML in Internet Explorer 7 (954084)
- You
cannot add a Web site to the "Trusted sites" zone when Internet
Explorer 7 is installed even when the user account belongs to the
Administrators group (935786)
- You
cannot add a Web site to the "Trusted sites" zone when Internet
Explorer 7 is installed even when the user account belongs to the
Administrators group (935786)
- You
cannot connect to a shared printer when you enable the protected mode
in Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows Vista-based Computer
(927842)
- You
cannot log on to an FTP site or you are redirected to the root folder
of the FTP site in Internet Explorer 7 (941896)
- You
cannot open a Web page by using Windows Internet Explorer 7 if the URL
of the Web page contains non-ASCII characters (935729)
- You
cannot press ALT+D to set the focus to an object in Internet Explorer 7
(941508)
- You cannot resize or reposition a WebBrowser
control window in Windows Internet Explorer 7 (934363)
- You
cannot
use Internet Explorer to connect to a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Administration Web site and then connect to another Virtual Server
(935943)
- You
cannot view certificate information in Windows Internet Explorer 7 or
in Certificate Manager if you use an unattended answer file to install
Windows Vista (942543)
- You
cannot visit a Web site if you pass the address through an ActiveX
control that accepts extended characters as parameters in Internet
Explorer 7 (930268)
- You experience connection problems when you
use Internet Explorer to browse through pages on a secure Web site
(937480)
- You
may be unable to use an FTP application to upload a file to a remote
server on a computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed
(934376)
- You
may be unable to view some PDF documents in Windows Internet Explorer 7 or in
Internet Explorer 6 (945686)
- You
may receive an error message in Windows Internet Explorer 7 when you
try to open a search item from the search list in Musicmatch Jukebox:
“Permission denied” (926372)
- You
receive a language compatibility error message when you try to download
a non-English version of Internet Explorer 7 on a computer that is
running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (928312)
- You
receive a script error in Internet Explorer 7 on a computer that is
running Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP when you include certain
characters to specify a window name parameter in the "Window.Open"
method (935775)
- You
receive a WM_ACTIVATE message after you receive a WM_KILLFOCUS message
in Internet Explorer 7 (939851)
- Warning
message when a user tries to connect to a secure Web site by using
Internet Explorer 7: "There is a problem with this website's security
certificate" (931850)
- Web page content does not update as expected
when you move the pointer into an inline frame in Internet Explorer 7
(932537)
- Web-related applications may not work correctly after you install cumulative security update for Internet Explorer MS08-024 (947864)
- When
you print an e-mail message in either Office Outlook 2003 or Outlook
Express, the printed message is so small that it is unreadable
(932538)
- When you try to open a file by typing the URL location of the file, the application that opens the file may not start correctly (954077)
- When you try to use Internet Explorer 7 to
download a file from a Web page, the file name changes
(933133)
-
Windows Internet Explorer 7 may exit unexpectedly when you view a Web page that
sets a scroll bar style attribute for an element (942368)
- Windows
Internet Explorer 7 may not correctly recognize the zone to which a network
resource belongs when you access the resource by using a mapped drive
in Windows Vista or in Windows XP with Service Pack 2
(929798)
- Windows Live Writer crashes (951068)
Security
See also
Hans
Le Roy