Installed IE8, but visited sites see my browser like IE6 or below

Is there some files IE more alumni that should be deleted so that the sites I visit will see that I'm running the current IE8?  I just reinstalled IE8 and all the updates this morning.

What happened twice today on various sites;  a private company, and;  a government site.

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Hmmm... (he said, scratching his head...)

Here's another place where to look:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Note that this is the * by user * version of one of the last entries I suggested (instead ofHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ). If you see anything targeting MSIE 6.0 here, kill him.

In addition, I think that the next thing is to check if your UserAgent really is the likely cause of the problem (containing several strings version MSIE).

There are several sites on the ' net who will echo your UserAgent string to you to see what it sends. Visit one of these sites and post what your UserAgent sent here. Two of these sites is http://show-ip.net or http://www.useragentstring.com. Doesn't really matter. I'm going to think you have some of your duplicate UserAgent that could well be the result of a bug in the installer of IE8 * or * the unfortunate by-product of some tool antivirus / antimalware.

I would be interested by what sends your UserAgent.

You could also do a "hard reset" IE by taking a glance at the article here

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/923737

-Dave

Tags: Windows

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