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Friday, June 05, 2009
Did IE8 remove all my Microsoft shortcuts in Start / Programs?
It sure looks like that. After installing IE8 (and rebooting, obviously) on XP3, when I do Start/Programs, (presumably) all my non-Microsoft shortcuts are still there. But, Word, Excel, etc are gone! Before I go and try to figure out what shortcuts have been removed beyond the obvious ones, I’d like to know of people who have experienced what I have.
I’ve tried to google, but I’m not getting much. It looks like IE8 is optimized with Microsoft’s latest O/S (Microsoft 7), and it has some new behaviour with regards to the Desktop / Taskbar. I presume therefore that it has a few extra design “features” like what I’ve experienced.
Were they thrown into a new directory? Windows likes to throw everything in “Windows Live” now. Or sometimes under “Microsoft Products.”
Sidenote: What the fark is with MS and all their mail programs? I’m at work right now where we use Vista (ugh,) and I see:
-Windows Live Mail
-Outlook Express
-Microsoft Office Outlook
What the...? Just pick one!