Edit: This thread is not relevant now that IE 8 has been released. To save future readers from having to read the entire thing, the TD is fully functional using Internet Explorer 8. In fact, Microsoft has made some excellent speed improvements to the scripting engine in IE 8, resulting in a noticeably faster TD (in my experience), so I recommend using IE 8 over IE 7.The Tournament Director requires Internet Explorer version 6 or later in order to function. The requirements listed on the website note this (
http://www.thetournamentdirector.net/download.html and
http://www.thetournamentdirector.net/faq.html#faq0), and have been recently updated to point out that
beta versions of IE will not work.
Internet Explorer 8 is currently in beta testing, and thus is not a finished product. Feel free to give it a try with the Tournament Director, but in all likelihood it will not work, and more importantly, it is not supported.
There has been some confusion around IE 8 and Vista with regards to going
back to IE 7 when one discovers the Tournament Director will not work with it.
Apparently, Internet Explorer is not considered a
product or a
program in Vista, but an
update. Therefore, you can't "uninstall" it in the traditional way. You must therefore uninstall the update that contained IE 8 if you wish to revert to IE 7.
There are a number of ways to revert listed in various forums, so I've listed a few of them below:
To uninstall Internet Explorer 8, go to Control Panel, and click on Uninstall Programs link or Programs and Features icon. Then on Tasks pane on the left, click on View installed updates link. Locate and select Windows Internet Explorer 8 in the list of installed updates, and then click on Uninstall button. Click on Yes when asked that are you sure want to uninstall the update. Restart the computer.
From the IE8 release note:
If Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 does not appear in the Currently Installed
Updates list, run the following command at an elevated command prompt:
FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\servicing\Packages/M
Microsoft-Windows-InternetExplorer-8*.mum /c "cmd /c echo Uninstalling
package @fname && start /w pkgmgr /up:@fname /norestart"
And an informative forum topic:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.beta&tid=27874059-9f2d-4cc2-b324-f90718d55c52&cat=en_US_36E23B85-28CE-4ad7-97FC-812B69AF1070&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=&p=1Thanks to jklaver for working through this with me.