Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / November 2006

Installation went smoothly over IE6 in Win XP updated. Broadband connection
stayed live at end of installation and MS web site was live OK. But when I
closed IE7 my broadband connection crashed. Tried everything could think of
without avail so removed IE7 - which fortunately restored IE6. Still no joy
until I reinstalled my BT/Yahoo! Broadband and router software.

The only possible reason I can think of for the broadband connection failure
after installing IE7 arises from the fact that I recently installed a BT
wireless router for Broadband to take the place of a dial-up modem (and
removed the modem when installing my wireless router). Maybe IE7 installation
read the IE6 set-up and used those particulars, which possibly therefore
programmed in a connection to my non-existant modem. I don't want all this
hassle again (I'm too old for it!) Now that I've got IE6 and BT/Yahoo! both
running via my broadband wireless router do you think I could risk trying
another IE7 installation with any chance that a second attempt might succeed?