Rather odd PC question....

OK have a think about this one,

I'm running win 2K with IE 6.0.28 blah, I know this cause I'm using it and certain test sites tell me I am.

So why when my girlfriend logs on to hotmail does it tell her she is using an unsupported browser?

I have scripting turned on which is the only thing I can think of right now that could effect this

Odd?!

 

Does trhis mean that the MS default browser now Mozilla Firefox?

 

Not by looking at the file types section of win2k no, html etc default to IE

 

Do you mean JavaScript? If so Hotmail makes exensive use of this.

 

It is very odd. AT, he says he has scripting enabled. Is your version of IE6 a completely vanilla Microsoft one? Only thing I can think of is that something has changed the user agent string which is what identifies the browser to the website.

Michael.

 

Sorry, I must be going blind

I assume you have cookies enabled? You could always download Firefox, not really a solution but it will solve your problem in the short term.

 

yup mike I think thats it, I've had a quick look via regedit for old installs of Opera/Firefox and stuff and nothing turns up, really odd. Of course you can't actually download a fresh copy of IE anywhere as it was all tied into the OS, hence all the court cases etc. Either gonna have to solve it or get the gf to use Firefoz now its got to a stable point release. hmmmmm

 

If you're happy to use regedit then run it up and go to:

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

(there shouldn't be a space between the e and the n in Current btw but some extremely weird quirk means that I can't avoid my post appearing like that)

There should be a String value named "User Agent" which has the string in it. It should be something like:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Win32)

...for IE6.

Michael.

 

yup, although I was looking in local machine earlier so I'll hunt around there too.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Win32)

thanks