How to tell if I have Internet Explorer 7?

[Globalti]

I want to enable the Quick Tabs feature, which I find useful on our home computer, which has XP Home. (This laptop has XP Professional) Have tried clicking Properties on IE in the Start - All programmes route but that doesn't tell me.

 

[stargazer]

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[alecstilleyedye]

tabs. if you can open a new page in a tab, it's ie7. otherwise, it's and older version.

 

[wafflycat]

Go to 'Help' on the menu bar. Click on it. From the drop-down menu that appears, click on 'About Internet Explorer' then you'll get a dialogue box appear which tells you exactly what version you have of IE

 

[cheadle hulme]

Use Firefox instead. Tabs and any other customisable feature you could ever wish for.

Only 10% market share too, so less attractive to internet nasties.

 

[derall]

If you don't want IE8 to be installed automatically once it becomes available (assuming that you have Automatic Updates enabled) Micro$oft has issued a toolkit to block IE8 downloads. Stick the file in your home directory and run from the command line.

 

[Hugo15]

Use Firefox instead. Tabs and any other customisable feature you could ever wish for.

Only 10% market share too, so less attractive to internet nasties.

+1. IE7 used to crash on me fairly regularly. No issues since I switched to Firefox.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Use Firefox instead. Tabs and any other customisable feature you could ever wish for.

Only 10% market share too, so less attractive to internet nasties.

or safari for pc. as above, but even smaller market share.

 

[Mr Pig]

I can't see any advantage to sticking to ie over Firefox. In fact I'm trying out Thunderbird for the mail too, after getting hacked through a security hole in Windows Mail.

More on topic, the tabs bar on Firefox closes when you're not using tabs so that it doesn't take up the space when not in use.

 

[spandex]

Firefox for me

 

[Globalti]

That was good advice thanks everyone; I have downloaded Firefox and it works well.