Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10 end of life

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Several of you have asked about IE 8, 9 and 10, because today is the last day of support for all of them on most versions of Windows. Fahima Rashid at
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Woody,

It is my understanding that MS will continue to provide security updates to IE 9 & 10 for those platforms (e.g., Vista) that are incapable of moving to IE11.

Am I mistaken?

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Woody, is there an easy way to install IE 11 only since all of the other January patches have already been released, and I don’t download and install them unless you give us the “All Clear”?

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Hi Woody,

I’ve had the update for IE11 hidden for many months (Win7). Today I restored the hidden update in preparation for installation and, after a check for updates, IE11 update did not show up. Guess I will have to go directly to MS for the download.

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Yep, that’s a good idea.

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Try this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/internet-explorer-11-for-windows-7-details.aspx

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That is true, as I understand it – although you won’t be able to install them on any platform other than Vista (or the two Servers).

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For websites that are IE-insistent, I use IE-tab extension in Firefox and Chrome. It works well, but I’d hesitate to use it for Windows Update!
I’ve found a number of sites and programs that use IE in the background, or force IE to open.
Feh!
Thanks!
Morty

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Woody, I have an update for IE 10 showing up as a “critical” update. 42.5 MB, listed as KB 3124275.

When I click for more information I get a page showing “This page doesn’t exist”.

Here is the link to that page:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3124275

Anyone else encountering this situation?

I see nothing about the IE 11 at all. I don’t know how to proceed as I’m sure there shouldn’t be an update to the IE 10.

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Heads up if using IE9 in Vista. I had one of those rare occasions to use it in October while troubleshooting a problem with my ISP. All patches had been applied. Afterwards I checked the settings and found SSL 3.0 enabled by default.

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Heads up…

Our old friend KB2952664 ‘Recommended’ disappeared from hidden updates tonight and reappeared on the update list as ‘Important’

[W7 64bit]

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woody what’s the difference between Internet Explorer 11 for IT Professionals and Developers–Windows 7 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Edition and Internet Explorer 11 (64-Bit) ?

i’m using Windows 7 64-bit

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Ok, I’m confused. I’ll still get all the other offered updates for Windows 7 even if I don’t upgrade IE to 11, right? I just won’t get the cumulative update anymore right? Am I understanding this correct?

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Will I still get all the other Windows 7 updates just not the IE ones if I don’t upgrade to IE11, right?

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@Woody,

I found the old KB2952664, the “Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7”, in my January batch of updates today.

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Yeah, it’s one of those patches that’s supposed to “improve” the upgrade to Windows 10.

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Right, but you need the IE upgrades. Windows uses parts of IE.

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The Developers edition is for people who build apps with IE 11. Just get the regular one.

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Yeah, I’m seeing that too. Oy.

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The page is up now. Microsoft’s gotten worse about putting up the KB articles as soon as the patches arrive.

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Ok, thanks, and sorry for the double post

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It’s in the recommended list on all three Win 7 systems here. Tried restarting all of them & manually checking for updates and it didn’t change on any of them.

Do you folks seeing it in your Important list have the “Recommended updates” box checked in your Windows Updates settings?

If not, I’m going to be hearing the Twilight Zone theme playing in my head for the rest of the day. Again.

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If you have Win8.1, you will find that the equivalent Compatibility for upgrading Win8.1, KB2976978 has also returned.
The last time KB2952664 and KB2976978 were offered the published date was 10/14/15.

At one point I was convinced that KB2952664 and KB3035583 (GWX) were being piggy-backed on the IE10 to IE11 upgrade. It happened to me on two different occasions in the wild. But I never could reproduce it with an extensive series of controlled tests from clean installs. I used IE11 from Windows Update, the downloaded installer from MS, and the downloaded installer from a third-party website under numerous conditions and never could duplicate it.

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I got KB2976978 – the same one for Windows 8.1.
It’s got something to do with telemetry, as well as compatibility with Windows 10.

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Yeah, it’s another garbage patch. I’ll have a post on that later today or tomorrow morning.

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I just checked my Windows Update in Win 7 and saw the list of all of the new January 12th patches and updates. There’s a Cumulative IE 10 update in there. I copied the details and they are as follows:

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3124275)

Download size: 42.6 MB

You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.

Update type: Important

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3124275

Help and Support:
http://support.microsoft.com

It appears, and I’m hoping that this is a good thing.

Even astrophysicist Carl Sagan when speaking astronomically used Billions, not Trillions.

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I hope this is not a “duplicate”.

I installed the IE 11, however there was one question which I clicked on “ask later” because it wanted to allow the IE to make recommendations. I don’t think that the IE should have any control over the computer.

Now I don’t know when this question will be asked again.

Any recommendations from someone who is familiar with the IE? I never use it.

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If you don’t use it, don’t worry about it. The “recommendations” is just a look-ahead that sends partial search strings to Bing. No biggie.

(P.S. It takes a while for items posted here to appear – because I moderate each comment.)

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Woody, thank you so much for your reply. No, never use the IE, so it’s good to know I’m protected from “that”.

Now I’m already seeing a “critical” update for the IE 11, which has the same KB number as the one which was shown for the IE 10. So that IE update can wait with all of the others until it’s cleared by you.

Thank you once again, Woody, for all of your guidance and help. You are a “life saver” for all of us!

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@Walker, you may have come across a screen similar to what I saw on one or two of the several PCs I updated to IE11 (it did NOT appear on all of them). On the very first start of IE11, I was faced with a screen that asked if I wanted IE to run with its default settings. Being highly suspicious of Microsoft, I chose to make my own selections (yes, there was also a button to have IE “Ask Me Later”, which is what you might have clicked on). The screen that then appeared contained three items on a list:

– Make BING my default search engine
– Set Windows Update to Automatic
– Make IE my default browser

I didn’t want ANY of them. [Is it possible that this is how some posters here found their Win Update setting changed from Never to Automatic???] I don’t know when IE will ask you again, especially given that you don’t ever use it, but if and when it does, choose to make your own selections.

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owburp, I don’t recall seeing that particular set of questions, however if I did, I know I would have said “no” to all. Also I do not recall seeing the “run default settings” No way would I ever do that either!!

My prompt was different and really didn’t provide specific information at all, which is the reason I clicked on “ask later”. No way
did I intend to allow any carte blanche MS
control over the computer. Certainly several differences here. Hmmm…. I feel that I must be extremely CAREFUL now and in the future as well.

Thank you for sharing your experiences with the IE 11 updates.

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