Husband installed IE7 on my PC the day it was available. I used it maybe a day and a half then decided I didn't own a PC and turned it off.

Husband made some modifications and eliminated some IE7 stuff..... it's bearable now.

was that IE 7.0 installed a duplicate .dll file on my computer ---which I already had, and then the two started a conflict/fight with each other.

At first it slowed me down, then it froze me (over two days), then it took
my whole DSL down and I could not get on the internet. The fix is on the other thread here, and involves "renaming" the older .dll file so the newer one will work.

I haven't used IE 7.0 at all. It is now just sitting there. We use Firefox.

Now I am afraid of it...I have read so much about it lately.

My son helped me fix this problem--and fortunately I was getting error
messages so he could figure it out. For people who do not get a box with
an error in it, you would have a huge problem, like Snoopy, I guess!
My error message only came up on reboot. And we don't reboot every day.

My husband was miffed at me-- said why did you click on that update reminder!!! yada yada. My son tells me always update...so there I was in the middle trying to do my best...and bingo, we had a huge problem.
But I DID update my Windows media player recently and that is VERY nice...
so not all of them have the dreaded bugs!

In the end my son suggests for what it is worth, that you still get the upgrade. He thinks there are Microsoft things in it that work with XP security wise. So that might be important. But we don't use IE at all anymore, and Firefox 2.0 seems to work with just about every website I go to. The only thing it won't do is the Yahoo Page Builder at their free Geocities site. (page builder is a pop-up program, and Firefox blocks pop-ups.)

I like IE 7, they did this to compete with Firefox.

I like Firefox also, but it doesn't always work with all the websites that I need to use, thus having IE as backup is a good idea.

IE 7 is more like Firefox in that its tabs are up, not down.
You have more "new pages" vs tabs taking up spaces at the bottom

but I think most people don't "update" their XP, that could be where the problems come in...

try updating your XP to the latest updates(SP1 and SP2, and I think it is up to SP4 depending...)

then install the IE7

but always make sure you export your favorites as a backup plan

to export favorites:

goto: File>>>import/export>>>next>>>export favorites>>>Select your folder(just keep it as it is and click NEXT)>>>save it to somewhere you can find it, I usually save it to my desktop but save it wherever you'd like

to bring it back, you do the same thing, but import instead

if you ever have to reinstall your computer and are afraid to lose your favorites, keeping your export favorites handy can save you a lot of troubles

you can also save it to a flash drive and import it to everywhere you'd like, laptops, desktops, friends' puter that you are visiting(just make sure you delete it afterwards as a courtesy)

I have IE 7, and haven't had problems with it. I configured it as I wanted so that it works like previous versions.

I read each screen prompt that appeared and accepted or declined as I went along. It did appear "different" when it first launched and I closed out tabs and re-seated a couple of things.

It works like a charm for me.

It took awhile to download IE 7 (56K) but it has been working very well for me( 6months). No crash and burns

I installed IE 7, then uninstalled. It felt more 'beta' to me than the new Firefox. I have more faith in Firefox, given MS's history, and the fact that Firefox has its own community.

My two cents!