Do I have IE 7 or IE 8?

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Dave \Crash\ Dummy

When I look at "Help>About Internet Explorer" in my browser, it says I
have IE 8 (version 8.0.7600.16385).

But my User Agent string says I have IE 7:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

So which is it? I am running 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. (I get the same
thing with both 32 and 64 bit versions of IE.)
 
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R. C. White

Hi, Crash.

If you are running Win7 (any version), then you are running IE8. It's an
integral part of Win7, not an add-on.

I'm not sure why your User Agent string says IE7. Perhaps you manually
edited that string?

In past years, as I've participated in a few IE betas, my banks have refused
to let me continue to connect for online banking. When testing IE7, for
example, the bank's website insisted I had to have IE6 - and this continued
until IE7 "went gold". The bank said that they would not update their
access gateway for the new version of IE while it was in beta. It was "too
hard to hit a moving target", so they would wait until the target stopped
moving before changing their own gateway. In those cases, I used
FiddlerTool to change to User Agent string to make the bank happy, then I
could access my account.

Perhaps your User Agent string got edited, intentionally or not, and hasn't
been changed back.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64)
 
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Seth

Dave "Crash" Dummy said:
When I look at "Help>About Internet Explorer" in my browser, it says I
have IE 8 (version 8.0.7600.16385).
Click to expand...
If you're on Windows 7 you are running IE8.
But my User Agent string says I have IE 7:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Click to expand...
If "compatibility mode" is active it may report as the downlevel version.
 
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Patrick Keenan

Dave "Crash" Dummy said:
When I look at "Help>About Internet Explorer" in my browser, it says I
have IE 8 (version 8.0.7600.16385).

But my User Agent string says I have IE 7:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

So which is it? I am running 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. (I get the same
thing with both 32 and 64 bit versions of IE.)
Click to expand...
if you have windows 7, you have IE8.
 
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Tony

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I just love to manually edit strings
Click to expand...
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