Guest $iLk Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 I have upgraded, I notice the speed difference and the difference in stability.New features don't get in the way like I have heard, I recommend upgrade.BTW I am using it on Windows 2000 Professional.Should I upgrade to Windows XP Professional? and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emphy Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 At the risk of sounding overly anti-microsoft:Have you tried opera? It's great and you can get a free version at www.opera.com. I believe there is an article about why not to upgrade to XP at www.firingsquad.com. (heh, and if you get tired of outlook you can get Pegasus mail at www.download.com) It may be my imagination but I feel more comfortable with Pmail and Opera than with the MS equivalents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightGreen Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 $ilk can u post the link to upgrade MSNthx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epsilon 5 Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 Mozilla, heading to be the best browser around, with 100% MSIE and Netscape compatibility! www.mozilla.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest $iLk Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 If you have a hotmail account, they probably mailed you a link. But just go to microsoft.com download IE6 setupDo an upgrade install (this keeps your plugins intact) and it works beautifully and is stable.This is the first time I haven't regretted upgrading IE.It has a good picture stealer toolbar too for those pesky ba$tards who write in the no-rightclick scripts *raises hand - guiltyhehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Schultz Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 I like IE 6 too. There was definitely a speed improvement (I'm using NT 4.0).But did MS have to drop Netscape plugin support? Oh well, more security is better, I suppose. I DL'ed the ActiveX QuickTime control from Apple the other day, now I got to find an ActiveX Mod player plugin. Modplug seems to be a Netscape plugin On the other hand, you gotta love the built-in cookie filtering and privacy policy functions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epsilon 5 Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 "It has a good picture stealer toolbar too for those pesky ba$tards who write in the no-rightclick scripts"- Select the pic (only the pic) - Hit shift-f10 - Save the pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Schultz Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 Could someone explain this "picture stealer"? How do you select the picture and only the picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr Nova Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 It only seems to work on linked ones. Click it, hit stop (or hold down, and drag your mouse off the window), and then do shift-f10.Shift-F10 does the same thing as the little menu button (to the left of my rt. control button), on my keyboard. And, shift-f10, without anything selected can also be used to look at a pages source, but you can do that from the view menu now.I've had the IE 6 Preview since it came out. Had Opera for a year.I'm going to upgrade to XP, after I switch out my mobo and CPU to something better (Celeron 500/OEM HP mobo now, maybe a T-Bird later...). That way I won't probably have any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest $iLk Posted August 30, 2001 Report Share Posted August 30, 2001 The firingsquad.com article has kind of convinced me to stick with 2000pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigoku San Posted September 4, 2001 Report Share Posted September 4, 2001 Yea I'm staying with ME as long as I can. Well At lease Microsoft has a idiot as a CEO. Has anyone seen the Ballmerfunk Music Video? Very Funny. BallmerFunk Videoor Download - Balmer.mov Edit: Stupid Urls[ 09-03-2001: Message edited by: Jigoku San ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Schultz Posted September 4, 2001 Report Share Posted September 4, 2001 Yet another cool image thingy:If you are viewing an image and it's too big, IE will resize it (without distortion) to a size to fit in the window. Hover the mouse over it and a button appears in the LR corner to toggle it between "full-size" and "fit-to-window-size". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest $iLk Posted September 4, 2001 Report Share Posted September 4, 2001 lol... Developers Developers Developers Developers...Dude has so many sweat stains it looks like he's gonna have a freaking coronary before the end of the video... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harlocke Posted September 6, 2001 Report Share Posted September 6, 2001 well i dont want to sound biased since I work for microsoft windowsME techsupport... however its a really good thing that people are upgrading to the new version of IE. I would at the same time like to give a word of caution to those with the ie6 beta. It a buggy piece of junk and has problems being removed.( don't call in for it either its beta and we dont support it) HOWEVER the final version is wonderfull. download it and use it. VERY much improved over 5.5 . One other thing. The xp products can give you grief when you want to reinstall as you must obtain a new code from microsoft. If your willing to do that then go for it otherwise stick with 2000. And on last note... people really do not realize how many problems are reallllly not microsofts fault but really a hardware problem, 3rd party program (damn you anti-virus softwar and drive overlay damn you to hell) or bad drivers(VxD)and the most common problems are people doing things that corrupt A.winsocks or B. network tcp/ip stacks. (ok 95 was crap but 98 and winme are awsome).IE truly is the best browser around it really is. and that folks is a shameless plug by your local microsoft representitive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papi Posted September 6, 2001 Report Share Posted September 6, 2001 Only reason why my experiment with IE6 was cut short was, because my multimedia keyboard refused to work with it. Works fine with IE 5.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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