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I repeatably (and always) get a crash using IE7 under XP Pro in a virtual PC

if I navigate manually to a https address, e.g.:



https://mail.yahoo.com



Interestingly, if I go to the http version of the above and get redirected

to the https it all works good.



Has anyone got this to work? We're attempting to use virtual PC to test a

web app (not the above example!) against a number of browser / os

combinations so this is a slight problem!







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AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 7.0.5730.11 ModName: mshtml.dll

ModVer: 7.0.5730.11 Offset: 000d4156


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"gw7nvw" <gw7nvw@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

Here's what I get with ie7/XP-Pro - desktop.



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There is a problem with this website's security certificate.





The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a

different website's address.



Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or

intercept any data you send to the server.

We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this

website.

Click here to close this webpage.

Continue to this website (not recommended).

More information



If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in

the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting.

When going to a website with an address such as https://example.com, try

adding the 'www' to the address, https://www.example.com.

If you choose to ignore this error and continue, do not enter private

information into the website.

For more information, see "Certificate Errors" in Internet Explorer Help.



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I don't think the invalid certificate is relevent.



I just tried:



https://login.yahoo.com



(which has a valid certificate) and got the same result (crash)





"Frankster" wrote:

Okay, I have no problem with that one. I do not have any add-on tool bars.

Just FYI...



-Frank



"gw7nvw" <gw7nvw@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message



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OK: I solved my own problem in the end.



The scenario that crashes (reliably) is the following:

->Install a virgin Windows XP with SP2 with no further updates applied

->Install IE7 by downloading 'IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe' from microsoft



Bingo: IE7 crashes for https sites



The following scenario works OK:

->Install Windows XP with SP2

->Use windows update to update everything microsoft reccommend, including

IE7



Bingo: IE7 works Ok for https sites.



So seems that either IE7 is not happy wirth a virgin XPPro+SP2 install, or

there is a problem with installing IE7 by downloading rather than windows

update.



I'm not able to try this outside virtual PC as I cannot roll a real PC back

to a virgin XP install - so I'm not sure if this only happens in virtual PC

or not. I would suspect that it is a global problem, though.



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