What problems besides IE 9's 64-bit's poor performance compared to other browsers? The big one is that it's not compatible with some browser add-ons. The problem is that users might inadvertently get "stuck" using the 64bit version and not realize it.
In fact, if you look closely at your network setting, you'll find you can't even make IE 64-bit your default Web browser even if you wanted to!Īs Eric Law of Microsoft explained a while back, " This was an explicit choice made by the IE team, which may change at some point in the future. So, what's going on here? Why did Microsoft do this? That's a good question. If you click on the IE icon on your main Windows menu bar, you'll also get the 32-bit version of IE 9 up and running. If you want you can drag and drop the 32-bit IE icon on your main desktop. That's right, when you install the 64-bit version, just like a Cracker-Jack prize, you get the real prize-32-bit IE 9-at the bottom of the box. After you've done this, if you look at your All Programs menu, you'll see, right under Internet Explorer (64-bit), "Internet Explorer," that's the 32-bit version. Yes, I know, it's the version you don't want if you want great Web browser performance, just stick with me. Instead what you need to do is to download the 64-bit version of IE 9.
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It's actually both quite easy and a bit confusing, so here's how to do it and a little of the back story.įirst, as many of you have discovered, if you try to download and install 32-bit IE 9 on a 64-bit Windows PC, you'll get the error message: "This version of setup doesn't support your Windows system type (32-bit/64-bit)." It's right. Since I've written about how much faster 32-bit Internet Explorer (IE) 9 is than 64-bit IE 9, and all other browsers, on Windows 7, I've been buried by people running 64-bit Windows, and one poor soul who was still running 64-bit Vista, wanting to know how to install 32-bit IE 9 on their 64-bit Windows 7 systems.
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