| This seems to be a very common problem. I | | | | tampering with the registry but my computer |
| have internet explorer 8 on both an XP and a | | | | skills are intermediate and I can follow directions. |
| Vista computer. The XP computer is giving me | | | | Here are the instructions: |
| no problems. On the Vista computer when you | | | | 1. Make sure IE8 is closed and navigate to the |
| launch IE you get an annoying warning that goes | | | | registry key. Start, run, & type regedit. |
| something like this: a program on your computer | | | | 2. |
| has corrupted your default search provider | | | | rsion\User Shell Folders |
| settings for internet explorer. It then opens the | | | | 3. Add a new expandable string value inside key |
| manage add-ons box. I have disabled search | | | | listed above with a value name of appdata and a |
| providers and even eliminated them completely, | | | | value data of %userprofile%\application data. |
| including google which is my default. Nothing | | | | 4. Reopen IE8 and see if you still get error |
| happened. When I did my websearch I found a | | | | message. |
| few solutions. They all had varied results. One | | | | This yielded positive results for many people. I |
| solution was to launch IE with no add ons. One | | | | don’t know if I did something incorrectly but |
| suggested editing group policy but gpedit does not | | | | it did not work for me. I came to this conclusion. |
| exist on Vista Home Premium. I even tried | | | | IE8 is fairly new. It could have some glitches. |
| uninstalling and reinstalling IE8 and the same error | | | | Windows Vista causes a lot of headaches that |
| occurred. All these solutions worked for some | | | | are unnecessary. There is nothing wrong with |
| people, while I did not yield any results. The | | | | Internet Explorer 7. It will fulfill your needs. I |
| most common solution and what seemed to | | | | uninstalled IE8 and kept IE7 instead. So, if you |
| work for a majority of people had to do with | | | | have tried everything and still don’t know |
| registry settings. Now, I am not an expert at | | | | what to do, roll back to your previous version. |