How do I stop Yahoo popping up asking me to upgrade to ie8 - i have it already?

My!yahoo has started putting a pop up bar at the top of my screen telling me to upgrade to ie8. I am running ie8 and windows 7. If I click to try and do the 'upgrade' I then get told the upgrade requires XP, Vista and a server version - and cannot upgrade for windows 7. It sends me MAD - how can I stop it?|||When that happens, type this into the address field


javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)





You'll see a pop-up of your "Agent String" which is what your browser posts to the webserver telling the webserver the version/browser, etc.





Part of that string should say "MSIE 8.0"...but if it says 7.0 or something then do this:





Start/Run, and type regedit





This will launch the Registry Editor Applicaton





Navigate to


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\


\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent





Select Edit/New/String Value


The new value will appear on the right...rename it to "Version" (no quotes)


double click on Version and in the Value Data: field...type "MSIE 8.0" (no quotes)





close regedit, restart all Internet Explorer windows...that should do the trick.





Interesting side-note: For me, it said MSIE 8.0...until I refreshed the page and then it said MSIE 7.0


All new tabs would be MSIE 8.0 for the first page I view...then all subsequent pages would be MSIE 7.0. I do not pretend to understand this behavior, but the registry addition above will fix it.|||The above answer is good, but didn't work for me until I made the edit under HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (which the Microsoft source page said you could try). Now the pop-up is gone.

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