TSGL: IE6 and IE7 - huh?!?

[Michael Sweeden]

I've in a bigger quandary that I've been in for awhile. I've got a PC that
was running 98SE and I upgraded to XP Home SP2, and then installed the IE7
update. If I launch IE directly, IE7 starts and looks fine. If I create an
http shortcut, or launch Windows Update, then a browser window that looks
like IE6 pops up, followed by a second IE6-looking window that load the
page. In this case, iexplore.exe is not listed in the processes tab as it is
when I start IE directly. If in these old-style Windows I click on the about
it says it is indeed version 7. I've done all the setting of things back to
default I can find, I've reloaded IE7, and I CANNOT figure this out! 

 

Any light anybody could shed on this issue would be GREATLY appreciated!

Michael