I did not say that IE does not work at all. Perhaps I should explain better.
1] IE7 used to work well, download attachments, and when I left it it offered me the option of either immediate disconnect or staying connected (to the internet, not to IE which I had left).
2] Firefox did not offer me that option, I had to find a way to disconnect. For this and other reasons not relelvant what they were) I was not too pleased with Firefox.
3] I updated to IE8 as this was recommended everywhere, and this gave me the advantage of working in In-Private. BUT while everything else worked, I could no longer download attaachments. I have already posted on this site the message I receive (please read it). Also I was no longer offered the automatic disconnect option, annoying but not fatal. There are other less convenient ways to disconnect. But inability to download attachments was serious.
4] I uninstalled IE8 and was left with IE7 again, hoping the problem would disappear. But it did not. Now even in IE7 these two problems existed!
5] Suspecting the system, I tried Firefox. Of course it did not give me the disconnect option, it never had done, but it DID download attachments. This meant that the problem was with IE and neither the computer nor the system. (Cassandra understoo this but his suggested solution did not wok.)
6] Since it started with IE8 but continued when that was uninstalled, it meant that IE8 had installed something that did not uninstall.
7] I went back to IE8 which I prefer to use rather than Firefox. One advantage is the fact that I can use In-Private which Firefox does not have. Another is the way attachments are downloaded where IE allows me to choose a name but Firefox gives a reference number, causing bother when there are a few attachments together.
8] I tried to contact Microsoft support but got such a lot of irrelevant rubbish (far worse than the worst that late appeared in the forum) in reply that I told them I will now use Firefox, and left them.
9] I searched Computer Hope and found no solution, so sent an email. This was acknowledged with a reference CHD 12378 but no reply. I asked twice for a reply to this reference but was ignored.
10] I then tackled this Forum. When asked for my name in regilstering I gave my name, but this was not accepted, so I typed in `nutcase' as a comment, and this was accepted as my name, so I left it!
All I posted on the forum you can see.
Finally Harry-48's personal email did not annoy me, I thnk he means well. His sense of humour has probably been misunderstood in the past and he seeks revenge via the forum.
`Nutcase'.
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