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| Thread ID: 49051 | 2004-09-09 03:16:00 | Why not get rid of Internet Explorer. | Mzee (158) | Press F1 |
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| 270562 | 2004-09-09 11:05:00 | Chill, that works for NTFS drives? | Pillar (439) | ||
| 270563 | 2004-09-09 11:44:00 | > As an alternative to Windows update, try using > HFNetChk from Shavlik. http://www.shavlik.com. Works on anything from win2k SP3 and up. Not sure of the IE5.5 thing tho, although having 6 sitting there taking up room, what the heck. Hmm, they've got a version for Linux too. Will have to catch up with that later. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 270564 | 2004-09-09 11:47:00 | one other problem of removing IE is other programs require it before they will install. i have come acroos antivirus and a few games that require IE (no idea why its not like they use IE in any way). | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 270565 | 2004-09-09 12:06:00 | > one other problem of removing IE is other programs > require it before they will install. i have come > acroos antivirus and a few games that require IE (no > idea why its not like they use IE in any way). Microsoft, Marketing/market-control stratagies. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 270566 | 2004-09-09 13:14:00 | Okay.... NTFS: Yes, it will, in Knoppix using captive-ntfs. Click on the lil penguin dudey in the Taskbar and have a browse through that menu 'til you find Captive NTFS. Captive NTFS is basically Read / Write access to NTFS for Linux using native Doze .dll files. Appz requiring IE: I've not come across any. We are replacing the iexplorer executable with an alternative... Upgrading from WinXP SP2-beta_2081 to WinXP SP2 didnt sit too well.... Websites requiring IE 5.5: Use Konqueror to forge the browserID. To install an RPM: Try tldp.org. Try Google. Here's a quicky way: Open a bash prompt, and type: su - [enter root password] rpm -Uvh /home/username/*.rpm Clarification: Yes - It works with any distro.... HDD installed or Live.... Im assuming your Windows partition is mounted automatically by clicking on the Desktop Icon as it mounts it read-only in Knoppix when you do this, hence wanting to clarify remountrw and its usage so that the user has access to the files. Ive not done it via a GUI - Only command line, so everything about Konqueror etc is hypothetical.... Yes, after closing the bash prompt you want to click your konqeuror window you were using to view your Doze partition Rename the _folder_ "Internet Explorer" to IE_Sucks or whatever.... MozillaFirefox is the Foldername, again, when you're doing this you'll see that "Internet Explorer" and "MozillaFirefox" is the name of the Folder as mentioned, and "iexplore.exe" and "firefox.exe" are the executables. Use them as they are referenced.... If you're having trouble forseeing it, it should make more sense when you're actually in Knoppix doing it. Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 270567 | 2004-09-09 13:26:00 | Chilli am installing xp in another machine ecpecially to do this would you use firefox or something else. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 270568 | 2004-09-09 21:27:00 | Works fine with Firefox Havent tried Opera - But the theory is the same... Install it in Doze so it sets up the Registry entries etc, then do the whole move/rename copy, paste, rename etc etc etc..... Ive got a few 120 day trials of XP, I could setup this 333Mhz box Ive got here if I really needed to, but I'd rather not..... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 270569 | 2004-09-09 22:18:00 | Thanks for clearing that up Chill. Obviously IE will still be there is some form or other. I'm going to do some research on a list of programmes and functions that are dependent on IE and possible work arounds. For example the identify as IE plugins that a browser can use to fool a website into thinking you are using IE when your not (I think Opera and some other browsers have this built in which actually skews the browser stats in IE's favour by some 35%) and how many of these so called dependecies are just default settings that can be changed or tweaked. If people would add there knowledge that would appreciated. To start the ball rollong: Windows Explorer (explorer) Windows Help files. .chm type. MS Front Page (web authoring) Windows Update. .Net (and therefore IIS) MS Passport. (I know Firefox works ok with MSN Messenger but some functions are not the best) Zone Alarm (version dpendent either way?) Clean it up, add to it. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 270570 | 2004-09-09 22:31:00 | Well, well, well. I've been using IE for many, many years without any big issues and I like it. Have tried other browsers but still prefer my old good Internet Explorer. :) :) It's all a matter of personal preferences |
bk T (215) | ||
| 270571 | 2004-09-10 08:40:00 | > Works fine with Firefox > > Havent tried Opera - But the theory is the same... > Install it in Doze so it sets up the Registry entries > etc, then do the whole move/rename copy, paste, > rename etc etc etc..... > > Ive got a few 120 day trials of XP, I could setup > this 333Mhz box Ive got here if I really needed to, > but I'd rather not..... Snap, I just put it on a P2, 333, dell optliex, onboard everything, was harder to get to connect to net. over network than my last 5 mdk 9.2 setups? will install f/fox9 latest d/load after this post and work from their. d |
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