Question : Vista Home Basic & Vista Business - IE8 not supported

Suspecting problems with IE8 on Vista Home Basic (Dell Inspiron 530S), tried to install downloaded IE8 - returned not supported on this system. As current IE was 8, I tried same on Vista Business PC (clean install - not Dell) with IE8 returned same result.

What does this mean? Version problem? 8<>8?

Answer : Vista Home Basic & Vista Business - IE8 not supported

It's fairly easy to check BITS, and if that does not help, see if you can get email support. Sometimes the best cure for a machine that won't update like this (assuming you cannot find a fix) is to reimage it and start over. Better for long term reliability. And, if you get to this, do now consider Windows 7 as Vista has died in the marketplace. ... Thinkpads_User