If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
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Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#2Better yet, why not install Google Chrome and replace their Internet Explorer link with a link to Google Chrome? Just make the link have IE's icon so that they don't wonder where the internet has gone.
They will marvel about how you "made their internet faster." I like to make it even easier for people by making two different links: one called "Internet" which takes them to Google, the other called "Email" which takes them to their web email. The results are instant simplification, security improvement, and general betterment of the web by migrating more people to the Webkit rendering engine.
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#3Actually my parents are using a Debian box with Chromium. I found it is a lot easier to manage remotely than a Windows box; it's really low maintenance; they won't grab malware and the Gnome desktop can be really dumbed down - I only left the window switcher, shortcuts for chromium and skype on the panel and on the desktop, time and date, volume control.
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#4Follow the OP's advice: don't remove IE unless it is unused! You may lose a convert by removing it without explanation.
My parents navigate the Internet by clicking the arrow next to the address bar, and clicking the webpage they want to use. The last time I tried converting them, they also used work-related webpages with ActiveX controls, which no sane browser would ever support. Tech is slow outside of the tech industry.
My parents' Chrome usage would be a play in three Acts:
Act 1: Confusion. "Where did my Sites go? The ones that were on top. I used to click something to click the sites, but now that's gone. There's no arrow! I have to open History? I didn't have to do that before. Where did my Homepage go? What's a 'tab'?"
Act 2: Judgement. "I had this the way I like it before. I don't think I can get used to using this. And I couldn't use the Work system, so I have to keep switching between things."
Act 3: Trashbin. "That Google thing? I uninstalled that. We didn't like it. And we couldn't use it for Work."
As they say, the best user interface is the one you already know how to use.
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#5Better yet, why not install Google Chrome and replace their Internet Explorer link with a link to Google Chrome? Just make the link have IE's icon so that they don't wonder where the internet has gone. They will marvel about how you "made their internet faster." I like to make it even easier for people by making two different links: one called "Internet" which takes them to Google, the other called "Email" which take…
in my experience, they will marvel at the speed for a little while... until a favorite website doesn't display correctly for whatever reason. Then it becomes my job to play tech support.
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#6Is IE8 really so bad?
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#7Current 0-day or no, you'll be doing much more good in the long run if you replace the pre-installed acrobat reader with a 3rd party viewer.
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#8Is IE8 really so bad?
With two current IE 0-days, one with an exploit package on metasploit it's going to be very widely abused until microsoft pushes a fix.
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#9Follow the OP's advice: don't remove IE unless it is unused! You may lose a convert by removing it without explanation. My parents navigate the Internet by clicking the arrow next to the address bar, and clicking the webpage they want to use. The last time I tried converting them, they also used work-related webpages with ActiveX controls, which no sane browser would ever support. Tech is slow outside of the tech ind…
Use IETab for those specific websites, seamless support.
Re: If you're visiting family over the holiday, turn off Internet Explorer.
#10Follow the OP's advice: don't remove IE unless it is unused! You may lose a convert by removing it without explanation. My parents navigate the Internet by clicking the arrow next to the address bar, and clicking the webpage they want to use. The last time I tried converting them, they also used work-related webpages with ActiveX controls, which no sane browser would ever support. Tech is slow outside of the tech ind…
Use IETab for those specific websites, seamless support.
Not seamless in my experience. There is one site in particular that I need to use whenever my domains need renewing; the javascript menus didn't work in the IE tab, but was just fine viewed from IE itself. Not a clue why.