Fokke said:
Hi all,
A month or so ago I upgraded IE9 to IE10. It ruined my default browser,
Mozilla FF. All fonts on websites showed since then as Times New Roman.
So I put a system image back and was happy with my FF again.
Now, all of a sudden, M$ stroke and FF is ruined again. And yes, my IE9
has been sneakily updated to IE10 by a Windows update. Ofcourse I can
put a system image back and never apply any updates to my system again
but there must be a better way. How can I uninstall @#$%! IE10 and undo
the damage?
Or, perhaps, how can I make FF to show the real fonts again?
Thanks beforehand,
Fokke
You can "hide" updates, so they are not applied. You
would do that to an update, before it is installed.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/24376-windows-update-hide-restore-hidden-updates.html
So one procedure would be something like:
1) Put system image back.
2) Go to Windows Update, hide the IE10 update.
3) Enjoy life with IE9.
I suppose it also depends on how the update is being done.
Microsoft can be sneaky, when they want to be.
I leave my updates on "Manual", so I get to examine the
list of updates first. That means me initiating Windows Update,
rather than Windows Update being set to Automatic. I am undoubtedly
less secure that way, but at least I won't be getting any
IE10 surprises that way. I tend to not accept newer versions
of IE (because I don't use them). I currently have three other
browsers loaded for web surfing.
*******
I certain number of settings in Firefox, are actually inherited
from Internet Explorer (that's a design decision by the Firefox team).
The security levels that IE uses, are also used by Firefox. I don't
know how a font could possibly be involved - my point in mentioning
that, is so you'll be aware there is a potential interaction by design.
I consider the whole registry scheme for IE to be a mess, so good luck
making sense of it. Someone once computed, that there were 2000 registry
entries for IE security, caused by the number of permutations and combinations
of stuff.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/firefox_3_follows_ie7s_securit_1.html
"unlike previous versions of Firefox, the latest version now honors
your Windows security settings for downloading applications,
settings that are configured through IE."
You may need to find additional, more modern articles like that one, to see
to what extent that model is being followed now.
HTH,
Paul