IE 7
Why is Bookmarks grayed out ?
How do i get it to work ?

My IE7 doesn't have fix my settings. Can anyone tell me why? My settings keep
changing

Out of the blue I now have a recurrent crash of the IP Helper service.  It's
completely random, and happens after having Internet Explorer running for a
while.  
I'm running Vista Ultimate, and as far as I can tell everything continues to

I have Adobe 8.1 Reader and Adobe Acrobat 4.0 installed on my computer and
use Vista Home Premium.   Whenever I try to open a link in IE7 that has a
.pdf extension, IE always tries to open the file in Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (which
has compatability problems with Vista).  I would like ...

What do they do?
I installed it the first time but I had to uninstall it and re-install it.
And now I have just the hotfix.
Also, I'm rather reluctant to install any updates because I had to reformat

IE v 7   windows xp
Accessing Google maps (and other mapping services)
On zooming and panning ie goes very very slowly
"Waiting for . . . . ."  message just sits there!

Recently, I have been having a problem with accessing Ancestry.com
pages (other than the Home Page) will cause IE7 to freeze when I
attempt to close it.  Ancestry.com works just fine, but after
accessing it, I have to use ctrl/alt/del to close IE7.  Accessing all

Using the latest, fully updated IE7 in Windows XP, I use the Mousewheel
click to open a new tab, but when I do that, it disables scrolling (using the
mousewheel and the up or down arrows) in the currently active tab.
I have to click in the current tab to become able to scroll ...

Under Vista, with IE7, when I mouse over a link, the URL does not show up in
the Status Bar the way it does under XP.  I can still get it to appear there
if I right-click on the link.  Is there a way I can make IE7 behave the way
it used to?

I'm using IE7 with all the latest updates.  When working on the
Internet, I often get the message listed below when I "goback" to a
page.  This causes me to have to click on "View/Refresh" and then
"Retry" in the next box.

I use IE7 but keep seeing mentions of MSN Explorer.  Which is better or what
does one offer that the other doesn't?
Old Codger

About a week ago, my browser back button in IE7 started to work very slowly.  
At first, I thought it was a performance issue, so I defragmented, and
deleted all tem internet files and cookies.  No luck though.  When you click,
it "selects" the buttin, but takes 5 seconds or so to ...

Please try
http://www.microsoft.com/china/technet/Security/bulletin/ms08-Apr.mspx
change the drop down select on the left, the content is "five squares". It
suppose to be some Chinese words. All other text are Chinese words.

I have Meta refresh disabled but it still refreshes all the time ... such as
on the Drudge.com web site (any many other sites).  How do I disable it for
good!!!
Note:  Here is how I attempted to disable it:

How can I remove, and stop prompt, for saved passwords.  IE wants to insert a
password for Gmail and I do not want it to.  I can not find a way to remove
the saved password.
XP Pro SP2, P4 IBM machine using IE6