Strange activity on Microsoft account.
SolvedDidi64_549 Posted messages 2812 Registration date Status Member Last intervention -
Hello, in my Microsoft account when I go to my login activity, I sometimes find that there has been a login activity using Internet Explorer even though I have never used this browser. When I check this login activity to see where it's coming from, I see my email address, my IP address, as well as my location, which proves that it came from me. I want to point out that I have already changed my password twice and it also states successful login. Is there an explanation for this?
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Hello,
one possible reason is that by changing the password of your Microsoft account and if your Windows installation is linked to it, you are required to reconnect and it is possible that Windows uses elements from Internet Explorer to do so.
No certainty, but that's what seems most plausible to me.
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Hello,
Indeed, all Microsoft links use the "in-house" browser even if another is set as default; however, in recent versions of Windows, this browser is Edge, not IE, which only works under Windows 7 and under certain conditions in Windows 10.Hello,
This is not accurate; like all publishers, Microsoft has not shied away from modifying or removing features with each version (for example, 16-bit applications in 64-bit operating systems).
Beyond the contemporary context, Microsoft has migrated IE to Edge with a Chromium engine for security reasons, it would be in poor taste to remove it as a desktop application while keeping it hard-coded in Windows to access Microsoft resources.
The situation depends on the OS, which the author has not specified.
Under XP even SP3, IE6 by default is dead, you can work around this by installing IE8, but it is largely unusable, no way to go further, which Microsoft has not done by not rewriting XP for this purpose; under Windows 7, IE11 is currently functioning normally without any mention of Edge.
The problem arises with more recent versions, Microsoft has, whatever you say, undertaken to kill IE, but quietly and officially because the business world continues to use applications based on IE; this is the reason for the existence of the IE compatibility mode in Edge starting with Windows 10 (but can only be activated through a setting) and the persistence of IE in certain professional editions of Windows 8 and Windows 10.
Those will therefore be the last to go, we truly do not know when; for the others, there is no reason for Microsoft resources to be reached by IE (which no longer operates independently there) and not by Edge.
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Thank you for your responses. For your information, I have a Windows 10 operating system, 64-bit, x64 processor, I have the IE compatibility mode in Edge, and Internet Explorer was already present when I bought my computer.
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It might be "the fault" of the compatibility mode in Edge (which, in your place, I wouldn't enable unless you have a major reason to use IE).
For my part (Windows 10 Home 22H2), I have some leftover IE files in the program folders but no executable to launch it; there is some doubt as to whether I disabled it myself or if Windows took care of it for me.
IE has in principle been disabled by an Edge update in February 2023 (which still runs in the background even if not used unless the corresponding services and scheduled tasks are disabled) except on certain versions.
https://www.phonandroid.com/internet-explorer-ca-y-est-le-navigateur-de-microsoft-est-enfin-enterre.htmlIt is no longer even possible to reactivate it as was suggested by the optional features of the programs in the Control Panel during a transitional period, the item has disappeared.
https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/utiliser-internet-explorer-sous-windows-10-7248a101-d5dd-bded-d843-d9427c42d60f -
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So to summarize, these connections to my Microsoft account using Internet Explorer did indeed come from me, even though I did not use Internet Explorer but Edge.
