Blank screen with IE8

Cristy_m

I am running IE 8 and have reset my defaults to try and run the labs on technet. Every time I start any of them I get the litte red X box in the top of my screen. I am guessing it is an IE8 setting I have wrong. Anyone get passed this?

earweed

Why did you reset defaults in first Place? I know I had done that before when I had a problem and ended up uninstalling browser and reinstalling it. That may be something you could try now as it helped me, but just with a different problem. I couldn't get into the MCP site or IT Academy and was advised to reset to defaults.

Devilsbane

Try a different browser. Not knocking IE8 here, it has actually come a long way and I like it. But for me, often the easiest solution is just to try a different browser. Some sites just don't work well with some browsers (oddly you would think this would work perfectly on IE)

earweed

True, my original problem before I reset my defaults on IE was that I had IE set to automatically log meonto my messenger/hotmail which messed me up getting onto other MS sites. That SHOULDN"T have been a problem but it was. I was able to get on those sites using firefox.

Claymoore

Try adding the address or domain to your Trusted Sites list.

Cristy_m

I did try the domain and trusted sites but that didn't work either. I tried using Firefox but the site informed me it needed IE of 6.5 or higher. Did anyone try another browser that did work?