About a week and a half ago I installed IE 9. Boy am I sorry I did.
First, I found that while it was faster, many features that were obvious and easily accessible in IE 8 are either hidden or not there anymore. For example you can't highlight, copy and past the web url of the page you're on in the address bar. There's just a short address bar with a shortened version of the web address, with a drop down menu that has the full web address, but you can't click on it nor highlight, copy and paste the link.
Second, in IE 8, in the top left corner, beside the back/forward arrows, there was a drop down arrow where you could see your recent pages and select one. In IE 9, there is no such animal. If you want to go back to a previous page, you have to keep hitting the back button multiple times to eventually get back where you want to be. Really stupid.
Anyway, I got tired of putting up with it, and uninstalled it today. No problem going back to IE 8, because it was still in my system. However, when the hard drive booted back up, suddenly I started getting a pop up window telling me "USB Device Not Recognized", and saying "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it. The location of the device is shown in bold type.
USB Root Hub (4 ports)
--Unused Port
--Unknown Device
--Unused Port
--Unused Port
Recommendation, Try reconnecting the device. If Windows still does not recognize it, replace the device."
Okay, so I double clicked on "Unknown Device" and get an Unknown Device Properties box, which tells me the Unknown Device is Universal Serial Bus controllers.
It says "Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)
To fix this problem, reconnect this hardware device to the computer.
Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.
The hardware was NOT disconnected from my computer, but I reconnected the hardware anyway, checking all connections. I still keep getting this window popping up telling me the same thing over and over ... incessantly. Now I know my 4 port USB connecter is working, because my mouse is connected to it, and it's working fine.
Looking for a resolve to the problem, I clicked the "Check for solutions" button, to report the problem to Windows, but that link went nowhere, and nothing happened.
So I started browsing around my computer to see if my devices were listed (clicked on the Start button, then on Computer to see the disk drives and other hardware connected to my computer) .... AND THEY ARE NO LONGER LISTED. I have an HP Personal Media Drive (gone from the list, so the computer won't recognize it's there), I have an HP Scanjet 4850 scanner (it's no longer listed on my computer), nor is my camera.
What the heck happened to my external devices when I uninstalled IE 9!!!?
I had to call hp ... would weren't much help at all. Then I called Futureshop, where I purchased everything. They told me to bring in my hard drive tower (it's a desktop) so they can get to the bottom of it. Darn good thing its still under the extended warranty.
For gosh sakes ... why is IE 9 such a problem child? And why doesn't it come with some warnings to customers about the mess it can throw your computer into if you are so naive as to install it ...
Can you explain to me why this happened? I sure would like to know.
Thank you ... and sorry for the rant, but I'm a little upset at the moment.
First, I found that while it was faster, many features that were obvious and easily accessible in IE 8 are either hidden or not there anymore. For example you can't highlight, copy and past the web url of the page you're on in the address bar. There's just a short address bar with a shortened version of the web address, with a drop down menu that has the full web address, but you can't click on it nor highlight, copy and paste the link.
Second, in IE 8, in the top left corner, beside the back/forward arrows, there was a drop down arrow where you could see your recent pages and select one. In IE 9, there is no such animal. If you want to go back to a previous page, you have to keep hitting the back button multiple times to eventually get back where you want to be. Really stupid.
Anyway, I got tired of putting up with it, and uninstalled it today. No problem going back to IE 8, because it was still in my system. However, when the hard drive booted back up, suddenly I started getting a pop up window telling me "USB Device Not Recognized", and saying "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it. The location of the device is shown in bold type.
USB Root Hub (4 ports)
--Unused Port
--Unknown Device
--Unused Port
--Unused Port
Recommendation, Try reconnecting the device. If Windows still does not recognize it, replace the device."
Okay, so I double clicked on "Unknown Device" and get an Unknown Device Properties box, which tells me the Unknown Device is Universal Serial Bus controllers.
It says "Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)
To fix this problem, reconnect this hardware device to the computer.
Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.
The hardware was NOT disconnected from my computer, but I reconnected the hardware anyway, checking all connections. I still keep getting this window popping up telling me the same thing over and over ... incessantly. Now I know my 4 port USB connecter is working, because my mouse is connected to it, and it's working fine.
Looking for a resolve to the problem, I clicked the "Check for solutions" button, to report the problem to Windows, but that link went nowhere, and nothing happened.
So I started browsing around my computer to see if my devices were listed (clicked on the Start button, then on Computer to see the disk drives and other hardware connected to my computer) .... AND THEY ARE NO LONGER LISTED. I have an HP Personal Media Drive (gone from the list, so the computer won't recognize it's there), I have an HP Scanjet 4850 scanner (it's no longer listed on my computer), nor is my camera.
What the heck happened to my external devices when I uninstalled IE 9!!!?
I had to call hp ... would weren't much help at all. Then I called Futureshop, where I purchased everything. They told me to bring in my hard drive tower (it's a desktop) so they can get to the bottom of it. Darn good thing its still under the extended warranty.
For gosh sakes ... why is IE 9 such a problem child? And why doesn't it come with some warnings to customers about the mess it can throw your computer into if you are so naive as to install it ...
Can you explain to me why this happened? I sure would like to know.
Thank you ... and sorry for the rant, but I'm a little upset at the moment.
