Playing videos with IE7

Hi,

I have been trying to watch videos with IE7, i get a message that IE can't find server or something.

I have seen them with a Mac but not with Windows Vista.

Please help!

Nick.

 

Use a real browser.

 

did it work before?
try clear ur DNS, check ur firewall/virus scanner
run a virus/malware scan

cheers ...

 

yeah, you could do all that if you like IE7 that much
if not switch to FF or Opera and save yourself from future headaches

 

Hmmm I guess memory leaks don't count as headaches huh? Link: Mozilla to make Firefox memory issues a priority Oh wait, that's right FF is perfect, it has no flaws and never can have any flaws. Right?

Gary

 

OK smarty pants, what browser do you use?
I BTW I never said FF is almighty or FF is perfect.
I will say that FF and Opera have given me less trouble overall that any version if IE ever did.

 

What browser I use is irrelevant.

No, you didn't say it was perfect, but you did say...

That certainly implies that if I switched to FF, I would not have any headaches in the future, doesn't it?

I am just trying to point out the ongoing mythology that open source software is somehow magically immune to bugs.

Gary

 

I'm still baffled as to what the problem is with FireFox's memory usage. With the same 5 tabs open, FireFox 2 is currently using all of 3 MB more RAM than IE7 (54MB vs. 51MB). That's a difference of what, 0.001% of my total RAM? Whoopdeedoo. I'll trade performance, stability, usability, and security for 1/1,000th of my RAM.

 

perhaps I should have said some of the headaches.
in other words some of the headaches that IE gives will not be administered with FF or Opera.
All software has bugs, but IMO and I enficise on opinion, that opensource/freeware (at least the bigger ones) have less issues than that of the MS based software.

I'd like to take this opertunity to end this dibate since it is straying from the subject brought up by the OP.

but I do ask you to fight the good fight and spread the truth about opensource, but I also ask you to keep it factually based so that further mythology is not created.

anyways back to discussing possible solutions to the problem presented by the OP

 

As Phillip recommended try out Firefox to see if you like it. It's a pretty awesome browser.

 

I will try Firefox, but i would like the problem sorted in IE7.

Any help?

Thank you.

Nick.

 

Try resetting IE7 through Tools-->Internet Options-->Advanced-->Reset. This should put IE back to factory state and disable/delete any addons, delete browsing history, favorites etc. This should clear out any issues with corrupted WMP or any other addons.

 

tried post #4

cheers ...

 

Huh... You're linking to an article that confirms that Firefox doesn't really leak memory.
And is it a headache? No, not really. Does it cause headaches on your PC with a 4GB address space, whether your browser uses 20 or 25MB of RAM? I doubt it. If it does, you need to stop disabling your pagefile. It would be a headache if it kept leaking memory, yes. If it grew forem 20 to 40 to 100 to 400 to 1.5GB to out-of-memory crash. But it doesn't.

No, Firefox isn't perfect (extensions aside, I prefer Opera), but unlike IE, it is a web browser. That's right, Firefox is able to browse the web. IE isn't.
Because IE doesn't understand the technologies that make up the web (CSS and XHTML, primarily). IE might *look* like a web browser, and most pages are coaxed into looking as you'd expect from a web browser. But IE does not understand a web page. It just pretends.

It implies that you would have *fewer* headaches in the future.
And while I didn't say it, I agree wholeheartedly.

That's good. Enjoy your crusade. But you may notice that no one in this thread claimed Firefox, or any other open source software, was immune to bugs

 

It happens on my IE7 as well... Most videos will pay if I run IE7 as administrator (right click on IE7 icon and run as administrator). It's really odd, since I only have 1 user on this computer and its the only administrator. It may be the same problem for you.

 

Could you please provide more information about what type of video your trying to play? ie: Flash Video, Windows Media, Quicktime, Real?

 

Some sites do have expired links that no longer work.