Questions tagged [internet-explorer-8]
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How do I turn off IE's protected mode in Windows 2008 R2?
How do I turn off IE's protected mode in Windows 2008 R2?
I'm building development servers, and it is just getting in the way.

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Integrated Windows Authentication not working in IE only
In my site I have one folder that does not allow anonymous access. It is set up to use Integrated Windows Authentication as it is on an AD domain. The login works fine in Firefox, Chrome, even Safari, but not IE8. Has anyone encountered this before?…

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Is IE8 ready for corporate enviroment?
I am an IT-Admin at an medium sized lawyer firm.
I see that Windows Update is trying to push IE8 out to the market.
Does anyone know if there is any disadvantages to upgrade to IE8? Besides, perhaps, more memory usage compared to IE7.
The clients…

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How to disable autocomplete for passwords in IE8 via GPO?
In IE6 there was a registry key hidden away that would allow you to enable autocomplete but only for usernames, not passwords.
This key no longer has any effect in IE8. I can either enable or disable autocomplete for usernames and passwords, but not…

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IIS6 intranet site using integrated authentication fails to load when accessed externally
I've developed a couple of internal sites for my organization that use integrated authentication. Ultimately we want these sites to be accessible externally to users with domain-joined computers. The sites work as expected on domain computers…

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Debugging UI Problems in IE8 (Was IE8 on Windows 7 Authentication Mess)
UPDATE: I think the real question I need to ask here is: how does a technician debug UI problems with Internet Explorer, and not HTML rendering issues that have pretty good tools? I am aware of the SysInternals tools and others mentioned below, but…

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Website security certificate warnings in IE8 Windows 7 (64bit), fine in Firefox
We received new computers for use in the office (Dell Vostro). They seem to work fine for the most part but when we use IE8 to go to some websites, such as Yahoo! Mail, it tells us:
There is a problem with this websites security certificate
If we…

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IE8 Compatibility View group policy list not working
We recently rolled out IE8 to our organisation (2,500 people).
Given we had several legacy internal web apps that did not support IE8 (but worked fine in Compatibility Mode), we decided to put our internal domain into the Group Policy "policy list"…

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GZip compression not working on Tomcat7
I recently tried using gzip compression to improve web UI performance. I configured Tomcat Connector as below.
compression="on"
compressionMinSize="2048"
noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla,…

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Internet Explorer sometimes only prints the first page
We have a client who prints several pages from a web site. Most of the time it works fine. However, occasionally, Internet Explorer 8 only prints the first page, even when All Pages is selected. Again, most of the time it works fine--probably 90% or…

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Slow IE8 Start-up due to LDAP DNS queries
Recently (in the last few days), my installation of IE8 has been taking 15 to 20 seconds to load my home page. Specifically, the sequence of events (as reported by WireShark) is:-
Browser issues a DNS A query to resolve the home page server's IP…

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How to import an ADMX into a GPO
I'm trying to deploy an policy for the compatabilty list in IE 8 though at this point I'd settle for just being able to use a .admx
The basic problem I'm running into is when creating/editing a GPO I can't view .admx files but I can view/import .adm…

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IE 8 Authentication Denied on local SharePoint Site
I just installed IE 8 and I am now unable to authenticate with my SharePoint 2007 site using Integrated Authentication. I have no problems, however, connecting with Firefox using the exact same user account.
Thinking my problem might be related to…

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IE8 script error 800704a6?
We have a user who suddenly started getting the following error when trying to open some web apps using window.open from within an embedded web browser in our software
The script uses javascript's window.open command, and it works absolutely fine…

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IE8 request problems in intranet
One of our customers has problems using our CMS (hosted at a server on their intranet). The problem does only occur in IE8 and not in other Browsers like FF or Safari.
It looks as if from time to time (at around every 3rd click) some requests do not…

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