Warning - AOE III ESO option will not work with IE 7 (and here's the fix !)?

Hello All: found the ESO (online) portion of Age of Empires III apparently does not support MS Internet Explorer 7, at least not with my configuration (Windows XP w/ Media Center). When trying to access ESO w/ IE 7 installed, our desktop would 'hang' and not recover (a power-on reset was necessary...NOT DESIRABLE!). CTL-Alt-Delete did nothing, nor did the Escape key, etc. But the game worked fine in Single Player mode.

Easiest Fix: emulate IE 6.

How? visit MS Download Center site, and download the "User Agent String Utility version 2". After install completes, a desktop icon 'User Agent String Utility' will be present. Double-click it, message will pop-up explaining what's going on, and an option for you to 'Change Settings'. Click 'Change Settings', minimize the newly launched browser session (but DO NOT close it), and play AOEIII ESO. Here's the url: <>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...

Works like a charm!

Warning - AOE III ESO option will not work with IE 7 (and here's the fix !)?internet explorer update

why would anyone goes to IE anymore?? try firefox!... all the new cool features in IE7 was enjoyed for years in Firefox (in another word I see that IE STOLE them from firefox which is really sad, coz I thought microsoft and its big blava about stealing should've come up with something more unique..