Latest Internet Explorer 9 Release

Night Hawk · 16 Mar 2011

That was with IE 8 seeing the second 64bit browser. Once IE 9 goes even when clicking on the 64bit shortcut the 32bit 9 opens. I found that out with the RC when going to click on the 64bit icon. The help>about menu bar item will show this.

alphanumeric · 17 Mar 2011

Night Hawk said:

That was with IE 8 seeing the second 64bit browser. Once IE 9 goes even when clicking on the 64bit shortcut the 32bit 9 opens. I found that out with the RC when going to click on the 64bit icon. The help>about menu bar item will show this.

Not on my PC, if I click the 64 bit icon I get the 64 bit version of IE 9. You must be clinking the wrong icon or running a 32 bit version of windows 7. The icon for the 64 bit version is buried in your start menu under all programs. The one on your taskbar is for 32 bit.

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BugMeister · 17 Mar 2011

I put my 64-bit version on the taskbar for ease of access..

alphanumeric · 17 Mar 2011

I have both pinned to my taskbar too.

Night Hawk · 17 Mar 2011

alphanumeric said:

Night Hawk said:

That was with IE 8 seeing the second 64bit browser. Once IE 9 goes even when clicking on the 64bit shortcut the 32bit 9 opens. I found that out with the RC when going to click on the 64bit icon. The help>about menu bar item will show this.

Not on my PC, if I click the 64 bit icon I get the 64 bit version of IE 9. You must be clinking the wrong icon or running a 32 bit version of windows 7. The icon for the 64 bit version is buried in your start menu under all programs. The one on your taskbar is for 32 bit.

That was seen when the RC went on and subsequent need to replace a pinned shortcut for that. I had the 64bit along with the 32bit IE on the RocketDock bar as well needing to be replaced once the finished 9 was out.

alphanumeric · 17 Mar 2011

Night Hawk said:

alphanumeric said:

Night Hawk said:

That was with IE 8 seeing the second 64bit browser. Once IE 9 goes even when clicking on the 64bit shortcut the 32bit 9 opens. I found that out with the RC when going to click on the 64bit icon. The help>about menu bar item will show this.

Not on my PC, if I click the 64 bit icon I get the 64 bit version of IE 9. You must be clinking the wrong icon or running a 32 bit version of windows 7. The icon for the 64 bit version is buried in your start menu under all programs. The one on your taskbar is for 32 bit.

That was seen when the RC went on and subsequent need to replace a pinned shortcut for that. I had the 64bit along with the 32bit IE on the RocketDock bar as well needing to be replaced once the finished 9 was out.

I've used the early beta, several RC's and the RTW and never had to replace any IE shortcuts? Also I've never had the 32 bit version launch when I clicked the 64 bit icon. I'm going to take a guess and say that English isn't your first language, because I'm having a hard time understanding what you're trying to say?

Night Hawk · 17 Mar 2011

First off the beta was first looked at on a temp 32bit install while the RC later went onto the 64bit host drive. When right clicking to copy the 64bit shortcut from the Start>All Programs the new shortcut had been pinned on RocketDock as well as dragged into an addon toolbar folder.

Once the RC was installed and you clicked on the previously made IE 8 64bit shortcut the 32bit 9 RC window opened instead. Later the RC was removed however to create a system image with IE 8 and now a second one seeing the finished IE 9. Once installed a new shortcut was needed for both RocketDock and the additional Quick Launch bar. Quick Launch - Enable or Disable

alphanumeric · 18 Mar 2011

I'm talking about the regular Windows default shortcuts/icons, the ones most people use. Not ones created in a third party app/toolbar. In any case what does this have to do with not being able to set IE 9 64 bit as the default browser?

Night Hawk · 18 Mar 2011

It wasn't created on a 3rd party toolbar but simply dragged onto one as well as into a folder once you right click to copy on the Start menu>All Programs icon found there. Just like with any other program's shortcut once you reinstall or upgrade to a newer version the first becomes obsolete and needs to be replaced.

Unfortunately at the time even when clicking on the Start menu icon that still saw the 32bit default open instead. Interesting bug at the time. Once I reverted back to IE 8 following the initial look and went with the finished 9 everything works as it should.

I simply have to "chalk that one off to beta" since I didn't get around to a second install of the RC at the time.

alphanumeric · 19 Mar 2011

To me draging an Icon to a third party toolbar is in essence creating the shortcut. At this point though I'm just going to drop the whole thing as it doesn't appear to be going anywhere constructive anyway.