How to Kill IE7 in Windows Vista
August 10, 2007 by Jason
Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista is one of the aspects of the operating system applauded as a strong enough reason to justify upgrading to Microsoft’s most secure Windows platform to date. Essentially, the same browser is available on Windows XP SP2 and on Windows Server 2003; however, similarities stop when the Vista User Account Control comes into play. At a certain time, Microsoft even separated the two versions of the browser by a “+”, but that practice was dropped before the October launch. In combination with the UAC, IE7 in Vista is designed to run in Protected Mode. This means that IE7 is associated only with the most basic privileges, and can write just to selected areas of the disk. Read More»
