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Subject:    IE and XP sp3
From:       "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] " <sbradcpa () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2008-05-06 2:43:32
Message-ID: 481FC5D4.7020703 () pacbell ! net
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Hi.

My name is Jane Maliouta and I am the Deployment PM for IE8. You might 
remember my recent blog on Installing IE8 
<http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/13/installing-ie8.aspx#comments>. 
Today I am here to tell you about Windows XP SP3 (XPSP3) and how it’ll 
work with the various released versions of Internet Explorer.

Windows XP SP3 contains some new updates, and a number of bug fixes and 
security improvements. You can learn more about XPSP3 features by 
reading the white paper located here 
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&>. 
We expect XPSP3 will be publicly available shortly and want you to have 
this information prior to its final release to the web.

*Internet Explorer 6 Users*

XPSP3 will continue to ship with IE6 and contains a roll-up of the 
latest security updates for IE6. If you are still running Internet 
Explorer 6, then XPSP3 will be offered to you via Windows Update as a 
high priority update. You can safely install XPSP3 and will have an 
updated version of IE6 with all your personal preferences, such as home 
pages and favorites, still intact.

If you are currently running IE7 or IE8 on Windows XP SP2 (XPSP2) and 
you are thinking of upgrading to XPSP3, read on.

*Internet Explorer 7 Users*

If you are currently running IE7 on XPSP2, Windows Update will offer you 
XPSP3 as a high priority update. If you choose to install XPSP3, 
Internet Explorer 7 will remain on your system after the install is 
complete. Your preferences will be retained. However, you will no longer 
be able to uninstall IE7. If you go to Control Panel->Add/Remove 
Programs, the *Remove* option will be grayed out.

This behavior is by design and here is why. When we install IE7 on 
Windows XP SP2, we backup the existing IE6 files in an uninstall 
directory. Those IE6 files are the ones that shipped on XPSP2 plus all 
the security updates you’ve installed while using IE6. Windows XP SP3 
contains a newer version of the Internet Explorer 6 files. If you have 
XPSP3 on your system and uninstall IE7, your system would revert to the 
backed up (older) version of the IE6 files rather than the newer XPSP3 
version. You would end up in a mixed file state in Windows where most 
files would be the upgraded XPSP3, except for the IE6 files restored 
when uninstalling IE7. This state is not supported and is very bug 
prone. To ensure a reliable user experience, we prevent this broken 
state by disabling the ability to uninstall Internet Explorer 7.

If you must uninstall IE7 after you have upgraded to XPSP3, then you 
have to first uninstall XPSP3, and then uninstall IE7. After this series 
of uninstalls, you will be reverted back to a XPSP2, and a stable 
version of IE6, so feel free to upgrade to XPSP3 again.

If you install IE7 after you install XPSP3, then you will be able to 
uninstall IE7 at any point and be reverted to the newer IE6 version that 
ships in XPSP3. The restriction on uninstalling only applies to when you 
install a Windows Service Pack release on top of a standalone IE release.

Keeping this in mind, you might want to uninstall IE7, upgrade to XPSP3 
and then install IE7 again so you can uninstall IE7 in the future if 
need be.

*Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Users*

Installing IE8 Beta1 on Windows XP SP3 is fully supported, so go ahead 
and upgrade your computers to XPSP3 and then install IE8 Beta 1 
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx> 
to try out our new features. You will be able to uninstall IE8 Beta 1 at 
any point to revert back to either IE7 or IE6 depending on what you were 
using before.

However, if you already have IE8 Beta 1 installed on XPSP2, Windows XP 
SP3 will not be offered to you via Windows Update. This is because after 
you update your system to XPSP3, you will no longer be able to uninstall 
IE8 Beta 1 and the *Remove* option will be grayed out under the 
Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. The reason is the same as in IE7 
case described above. Since people are more likely to uninstall beta 
software, *we strongly recommend uninstalling IE8 Beta 1 prior to 
upgrading to Windows XP SP3 to eliminate any deployment issues and 
install IE8 Beta 1 
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx> 
after XPSP3 is on your machine.*

Thanks,

Jane Maliouta
Program Manager


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