A question about IE and MSN games

[cs]

Okay not me, but my wife and kid love to play those free games on MSN. Just receantly we upgraded to to Windows XP and with it came the current version of IE. Of course I don't use IE, but the wife does and besides the games don't play on Opera.

Now it appears that they don't play in the new version of IE. I've tried everything including opening up IE's security settings wide open and even turning off the firewall (when that stuff didn't work I put it all back to normal).

So does anyone have a clue why these will not work now? I've tried to explain to the wife that these games are dangerous by leaving your system wide open, but yet she wants to play them. Clues please.

Chad

edited to add link to site.
MSN Games (http://zone.msn.com/en/root/default.htm)

[ 03-29-2005, 12:25 PM: Message edited by: cs ]

[imported_GregW]

A lot of these games require Flash player from Macromedia. Have you downloaded and installed the Flash player yet?

[MickeyLane]

You can thank Bill Gates for this one. Some time ago, he said "Everything is a web page! Make IE the tool to do everything!"

So they did. IE is now a (the?) key part of XP - almost everything you see on the XP screen is an IE view.

Since people love to screw up Windows and IE is a wonderful portal to places where cretins shouldn't go, the push is on to 'secure' Windows - mostly by 'fixing' IE. (I am sincerly glad I'm not on that project!)

Try Firefox. I use it all the time to get to and use web sites that no longer work in IE. You know, stuff like my bank, the prescription place, etc. etc.

Firefox works pretty well.

[cs]

Greg I have downloaded and installed flash, but yet the games still will not play.

As far as other browsers I use Opera, but the wife is brainwashed by Bill and will use nothing but IE.

Chad

[Bruce Hooke]

I use Firefox and when I went to the MSN games site I got a message saying, basically, get IE if you want our site to work. So I don't think Firefox is the solution!

That is pretty ironic that games produced by Microsoft do not want to run in a browser produced by Microsoft. Since I am sure that is not the case across the board, it has got to be some sort of a problem specific to your computer, but I am not sure what. Do other sites that use Flash work on your computer in IE? What do the games do when they "don't work"?

[cs]

It tells us to enable Active X. It is enable.

Chad