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Mobipocket Book Creator Incompatibility with Internet Explorer-9

3/4/2012

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I recently had a bad experience and I want to share it with you so you don’t have the problems I had. My old computer which used Windows XP was dying, so I bought a new one that has Windows 7. Once I got it up and running, I went to put together an e-book with the latest edits of my book of short stories The Sun Zebra. For this I used the program I have always used, the Mobipocket Book Creator free shareware version 4.2. To my horror, when I gave the instruction to create a table of contents I got an error message. No matter what I did, I could not put together an e-book the way I had done it several times before. So I went on to waste 6 hours of my precious time trying to fix this problem, and I want to post the solution here so that you won’t have to waste your time if you find yourself in my situation.

The long and the short of it is that if you get a new computer with Windows 7, it comes with the Internet Explorer Version-9 (IE-9). The problem is the Mobipocket 4.2 version does not work with IE-9. Short of modifying the HTML script of your document’s headings (which I don’t know how to do), what you need to do to fix this problem is uninstall IE-9 from your computer. When you do this and reboot it, the system will downgrade automatically to the earlier version of Explorer (IE-8) and the Mobipocket Creator will work just fine again.

To do this, go to the start menu of your Windows 7. Perform a search for “Programs and Features.” When you click on that link, a window appears with a list of programs. In the upper left hand corner of the window there is the option “View Installed Updates.” Clicking on this option will take you to a list of updates that you can uninstall. Look for an update that reads “Windows Internet Explorer 9” and right click on it to uninstall it. Once you restart your computer your system will revert to IE-8, your Mobipocket Creator program will work OK, and you will be able to continue creating your wonderful e-books.

Hope this is useful to you or a friend in need.


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Mercy Loomis link
3/31/2012 06:44:21 am

Thanks for posting this! I'd run into the problem before but had my husband fix it, and he's not available at the moment. This definitely saved me from having to wait until he got home, so now I won't lose those few free hours in which I can be productive. Much appreciated!

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Rolando link
4/1/2012 06:31:02 am

I'm glad this was helpful! : ^ )

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