I was looking some cool IE Addons, and thought of looking at the IE Add-on website. The moment I keyed in the website using my Firefox browser, I’ve got a pop-up that says my IE is still not updated and prompted me to Download IE8. I was surprised to see that message and immediately checked the version of my IE browser No problem, I’ve IE8 only.. but was baffled for some time and started googling out for a solution in the MS website.

Atlast, I was able to find some solution at http://social.answers.microsoft.com by Jack - Support Engineer, MSFT, Moderator who says “This is happening because IE8 is not showing as an installed update even though you have it installed on your machine.  When Automatic Updates runs, it compares the list of installed updates on your machine against the list of available updates.  Since IE8 is not shown as installed on your machine it triggers the pop up “nag” screens to appear on your machine. ”

I’ve immediately checked the Windows update to find if IE 8 is installed. Strange, I can see it in the list.

This made me to research on this issue further and atlast after an hour was able to find a solution. I just uninstalled the current version of IE8, and downloaded it and installed back. It didn’t prompt the message again

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