Marc Robinson's List: Internet explorer issues

Browse to the proper Program Files folder and create a shortcut to that  version of iexplore.exe

When you right-click the IE icons in the Quick Launch area, the Start Menu  and the desktop then choose Properties, what's in the Target field?

(From an earlier post by Peter Csaszar...)

To create a shortcut to IE8 64-bit for occasional use, browse to  the iexplore.exe file at C:\Program Files\Internet  Explorer\iexplore.exe. Right-click iexplore.exe and  select Send To | Desktop (create shortcut). Rename that  shortcut so you know it's the shortcut to IE8 64-bit.

To verify that IE8 32-bit is the default, try this link http://www.microsoft.com. When the browser opens  look at Help | About Internet Explorer. If there's no  mention of 64-bit, the 32-bit version is the default. If you've disabled the  Menu bar, you will have to right-click the IE toolbar and put a check by  Menu Bar to have Help available (or just press  ALT to make enable Menu bar temporarily).

Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows 64-bit!

Which, if you look at the couple links I posted, isn't needed; just a matter  of properly configuring the XP firewall rules so that the FTP service will be  able to use PASV mode; just in case, to sum up what you'll need to setup the XP  firewall to run PASV too here's a short script which may be saved as  "setpasvftp.cmd" and executed from an "admin" command prompt

@echo off : pushd C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts : echo Setting FTP passive mode port range... cscript adsutil.vbs set /MSFTPSVC/PassivePortRange "5500-5520" : echo Opening up XP firewall port range for passive FTP... for /L %I IN (5500,1,5520) DO netsh firewall add portopening TCP %I "Passive FTP"%I : popd  

just refer to the two links at my post to understand what the script does (in  short it configures the IIS FTP to use a well defined port range for PASV mode  and then opens up the same range in the XP firewall)