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A blog for computer disasters
As computers become more and more susceptible to bugs, virus attacks and other threats, the publishers of SoftwareDaily and HardwareDaily have started a new blog, computerdisasters.blogspot.com.
We are at present working on a solution for the hundreds of users who have been affected by problems arising from attempting to install the Internet Explorer 7 beta.This often removes functionality from a wide range of programs, which are looking for two new DLLs that the IE7 install should have placed in the Windows/system 32 directory.
We have found a source for these files and at the present stage of our quest for a solution we have found that downloading them remedies some (but not all) of the problems.We have provided Microsoft with details of these files and where they may be found, but they have refused to distribute this information, since IE7 is in beta and they do not provide technical support for beta products.
However, a check with Google reveals the unprecedented extent of the problems arising from this beta, and if Microsoft will not make solutions available, then we must remedy that omission. Hence this new blog.
Please let us know of any disasters you have suffered - and, hopefully, of any solutions you have found. You can post them as comments to postings on this blog, or send them by email to disasters@blueyonder.co.uk.
We regret that we cannot enter into correspondence about any such postings which will be published "as is", with no guarantee of their veracity.In this, as in all things regarding computers, extreme caution is recommended.
We are at present working on a solution for the hundreds of users who have been affected by problems arising from attempting to install the Internet Explorer 7 beta.This often removes functionality from a wide range of programs, which are looking for two new DLLs that the IE7 install should have placed in the Windows/system 32 directory.
We have found a source for these files and at the present stage of our quest for a solution we have found that downloading them remedies some (but not all) of the problems.We have provided Microsoft with details of these files and where they may be found, but they have refused to distribute this information, since IE7 is in beta and they do not provide technical support for beta products.
However, a check with Google reveals the unprecedented extent of the problems arising from this beta, and if Microsoft will not make solutions available, then we must remedy that omission. Hence this new blog.
Please let us know of any disasters you have suffered - and, hopefully, of any solutions you have found. You can post them as comments to postings on this blog, or send them by email to disasters@blueyonder.co.uk.
We regret that we cannot enter into correspondence about any such postings which will be published "as is", with no guarantee of their veracity.In this, as in all things regarding computers, extreme caution is recommended.
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