I want to install the bloated corpse that is IE11 over the bloated corpse that is IE9.
Why? Because Dependency Walker informs me that The Vanishing of Ethan Carter depends on some IE dlls.
When I download and run an IE11 installer, I get an error message that my "Operating Sytem is not supported" and that I "need Windows 7 SP1".
I go to System Properties, and sure enough, my Windows Installation doers not register that SP1 is installed (see System Properties screen grab).
I'm sure that I installed SP1 when I installed the operating system, so I go to Installed Updates and there it is (see Installed Updates screenie).
So how can I persuade Windows that SP1 is installed or install IE11 in the face of Windows disbelief? I don't particularly fancy uninstalling SP1, though I suppose I'll do it if it's the only way... Sigh.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
Do you have Norton installed? The linky's a MS thread about this issue, I've only scan read it, but looks like the AV could be getting in the way, though the guy in question seems to have done a windows update and it sorted itself out :/
I don't suppose this is one of those you-would-phone-MS-and-shake-your-fist-as-an-honest-paying-customer-but-it-would-be-a-bit-embarrassing-if-they-called-your-bluff scenarios?
Thanks all for sympathy & ideas. I managed to sort it out - eff knows how - & updated IE, but it hasn't made a blind difference to Ethan, who remains vanished, at least to me.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
bastard by name