A brief response to XcommandeRX: Since I uninstalled Kaspersky (K) for the reason stated below, I never had to figure out how to add IE8 32, previously referred to as IE8 x86, to trusted in K.
I had to uninstall K Beta Antivirus and Firewall after it started demanding payment to continue using it. Obviously I erred when I mistakenly announced that K Windows 7 Beta Antivirus and Firewall was free. I apologize for my misstatement.
Then I googled, discovered that AVG Free worked with Windows 7 Beta 32 and 64, downloaded and installed it, and noticed that Windows firewall automatically had resumed.
It was troubling to me that neither K nor Windows firewall identified themselves as being responsible for blocking this or that program or IP address. When K was installed obviously the popup messages were generated by K, since Windows firewall was disabled. But when Windows firewall was reenabled after K was uninstalled, almost identical messages were emitted by Windows firewall, again without source identification. But after Windows firewall was set to "Enable All" and the popups finally reduced to that message alone and AVG Free was disabled, Internet Explorer was still broken. This can only mean that there is some other unknown cause that caused IE to quit.
Another thread in this forum stated that Internet Explorer could be broken by the installation of Microsoft's Silver Light, that Firefox also worked normally, and that the problem was fixed by uninstalling Silverlight.
I may have somehow let Silverlight be installed. I am testing Vista 32 right now with the Creative X-FI sound card disabled to see if that will stop a chronic frequent blue screening and rebooting problem, so I can't break away right now to boot Windows 7 Beta 64 and check for Silverlight, but I will be doing it soon.
Finally I know Windows 7 64 is a Beta, but has anyone been able to accomplish a repair install using it? After I removed 2 GB of my 4 GB of memory as I have to every time I install or repair any Windows operating system, I was astonished when the repair install failed just after it started with a corrupted installation media message.
(I had verified the MD5 hash for Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta 64 DVD ISO after downloading it off Microsoft's server, and burned and verified two separate copies of the installation DVD using Nero at two different burning speeds. Then I dropped the DVDs on two DVD drives, compared them using CdCheck, and was gratified to learn they were bit by bit identical in content.)
Having to my satisfaction eliminated the possibility of data corruption being present, I would consider this Windows 7 Beta 64 repair install failure a really troubling bug that needs to be fixed immediately. IMHO, Microsoft needs to get on the ball and release a patch for it immediately.
Finally the solution:
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Happy Days Are Here Again.
For some reason my reply giving the link to the solution for my problem got appended to a previous reply of mine instead of being posted separately.
Because of this, I am trying it again.
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Here is the solution. Happy days are here again. My only question is how in the world did that selection get made. I certainly never did it. Oh well, it's a beta. I might as well get over it.