{"id":54,"date":"2012-04-13T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T05:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/?p=54"},"modified":"2012-04-17T20:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:38:41","slug":"explained-a-strange-winxpie8-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Explained: A Strange WinXP\/IE8 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil, also known as PryMal, who is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtalkradio.com.au\/\">Tech Talk Radio<\/a> listener, has sent me the following information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve tripped over this recently and in case you\u2019d not found a fix yet, it appears as though it was a botched update from MS that pushed 64bit code for IE which starts background at boot, into 32bit operating system environments including XP:  Well done Microsoft!<\/p>\n<p>Which at least explains why the ctrl-alt-del works to get explore.exe running and the version of IE8 on the MS site is the NON 64bit coded 32 bit version.<\/p>\n<p>Figured you might like the whole story on that if you\u2019d not yet found it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that seems to explain the nature of the problem further and the method below still seems to be the way to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen any more examples of this since the cluster I had around the time of the previous post, so I think this puts an end to this issue. Thanks to Phil for providing the detail of where Microsoft went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>GC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil, also known as PryMal, who is a Tech Talk Radio listener, has sent me the following information: I\u2019ve tripped over this recently and in case you\u2019d not found a fix yet, it appears as though it was a botched update from MS that pushed 64bit code for IE which starts background at boot, into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcsupport.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}