{"id":720,"date":"2008-01-11T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/11\/2008-1-11-genius-microsoft-edition-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:42","slug":"2008-1-11-genius-microsoft-edition-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/2008-1-11-genius-microsoft-edition-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius! &#8211; Microsoft Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>If there was ever an example to prove that I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing down at the Festival of Dirt, this is it. It&#8217;s complicated, so bear with me here&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a fairly problematic machine in the mix down there. My predecessors had tried all sorts of idiotic tricks to make various flaky software packages work. Undocumented. Unauthorized. Non-standard reaching for marginal functionality. Workarounds are the norm for anyone who uses that machine, but the bill finally came due today. I had even implemented some of those insane fixes. Internet Explorer 7 stopped working, so I installed Firefox and let it go. The big problem is that some of our internal software now requires IE. Time to finally make it work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having uninstalled balky IE, I now needed to reinstall.<\/li>\n<li>Use Firefox to download a new version of IE and run the installer.<\/li>\n<li>Reboot.<\/li>\n<li>IE 7 won&#8217;t run.<\/li>\n<li>Check the DLLs. They&#8217;re set to load the Dependency Checker instead of registering themselves. Fix that. Still won&#8217;t run.<\/li>\n<li>Reboot.<\/li>\n<li>IE 7 still won&#8217;t run. Use Firefox again to download IE 6. Run installer. Error message says &#8220;setup has detected a newer version and will quit.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Uninstall IE 7 and restart.<\/li>\n<li>Run IE 6 installer again. &#8220;Processes requiring a restart have not completed. Installer will quit.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Reboot.<\/li>\n<li>Run IE 6 installer again, and again error message says &#8220;setup has detected a newer version and will quit.&#8221; Wha?<\/li>\n<li>Check Start menu and notice that IE 7 is listed as the default web browser. What are the odds? Click on IE 7 and it runs. It runs!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a nutshell, I uninstalled a piece of software, which then appeared and ran properly. What? Are you kidding me?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Absurd Microsoft shenanigans? Alright super genius Windows dudes, what happened here? Cripes!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, If there was ever an example to prove that I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing down at the Festival of Dirt, this is it. It&#8217;s complicated, so bear with me here&#8230; There&#8217;s a fairly problematic machine in the mix down there. My predecessors had tried all sorts of idiotic tricks to make various flaky &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/2008-1-11-genius-microsoft-edition-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genius! &#8211; Microsoft Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,9],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-festival-of-dirt","tag-genius"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}