If you are thinking of installing IE 10 .... think again!

[Dark Knight]

For the past few days I have been trying to install IE 10 to get a look at Microsofts newest failure, I tried and tried to no avail, I kept getting an error message every time I rebooted after the install finished that said "ie4uinit.exe The application was unable to start correctly". After which Internet Explorer will not work at all until you uninstall IE 10 and revert back to the previous version.

I searched the web and the Microsoft knowledge base to no avail ....... no answers.

I come to find that on another custom theme / modding forum I am a member of that there are those getting the very same error message, come to find out it is because of the modified .dll files that custom themers must change in order to run custom themes and icons.
If you run sfc\ scannow to revert all modified dll files back to their default IE 10 installs and works fine. I'm sorry I am not going to run a vanilla Windows 7 JUST so I can have IE 10.

Microsoft can keep IE 10 and Windows 8 and shove them up that old dirt road where the sun never shines.


My new default browser has just become Chrome.

[2635599]

Dark Knight, in one word NO. i installed ie10 final x64 yesterday without the slightest problem. so NO modified dll's for themes has nothing to do with it installing or not installing. now more likely something got corrupted that was either a modified file, or something corrupted a modified file and caused the problem.

[Dark Knight]

Dark Knight, in one word NO. i installed ie10 final x64 yesterday without the slightest problem. so NO modified dll's for themes has nothing to do with it installing or not installing. now more likely something got corrupted that was either a modified file, or something corrupted a modified file and caused the problem.

Chucky, a quote from Windows 7 forums : "I am guessing this is just an initial glitch and will be ironed out eventually but like you im unwilling to sacrifice my custom themes and icons for a browser I don't use by default anyway. It is specifically the shell32.dll causing the issues."

[2635599]

Dark Knight, you might want to do what i've had to do in the past, and that is to make your nontheme specific changes to your shell32.dll file(or files if you're running 64 bit windows)and copy it/them somewhere. i had a few programs that would mess them up and i would just simply replace them after installing those programs. your problem does explain the problem i had with sidepanels on the lsd theme i installed for a friend after i installed ie10 for her.

[Dark Knight]

Dark Knight, you might want to do what i've had to do in the past, and that is to make your nontheme specific changes to your shell32.dll file(or files if you're running 64 bit windows)and copy it/them somewhere. i had a few programs that would mess them up and i would just simply replace them after installing those programs. your problem does explain the problem i had with sidepanels on the lsd theme i installed for a friend after i installed ie10 for her.

Chucky, the problem everyone (custom themers) are having is that you can bring everything back to default and IE 10 will install and work fine, the problem seems to be though on 64 bit systems, but once you install a custom theme or icon packs or anything that is going to modify the shell32.dll file Internet explorer 10 will not work and one must revert back to 9.

If you have found a work around for this , PLEASE enlighten me on how to get around it. I am not one to go messing with .dll files.

[2635599]

if i figure out what i did different on my system versus what i did on my friends laptop i'll be more than happy to post it. at this point i don't know why my system isn't having the problem and here laptop is. i'm leaning towards the order i installed items in.