
While there are some welcomed improvements, there are several changes that have made day-to-day administration activities a bit challenging. Once you have entered your desired websites in Compatibility View Settings, click Close. The web pages will refresh and open in Compatibility View.I recently upgraded my workstation to Windows 8.1 and as such, am now using Internet Explorer 11.Note: To improve the compatibility of different websites, it is recommended that you keep the ‘Use Microsoft compatibility lists’ option checked. Click ‘ Add’ will add it to the Compatibility View list.


Compatibility View allows a website to be viewed and used as if it were being accessed with an earlier (more compatible) version of Internet Explorer. If you find a website that doesn’t look right, or some features, such as printing, don’t function correctly, it could be because the site was designed for an earlier version of Internet Explorer. So, what do we mean by Compatibility View? Websites are often designed to take advantage of certain features in a given version of Internet Explorer. The good thing about IE 11 (just like IE 10) is the Compatibility View feature which allows you to open the web browser with the best compatibility settings. It is not that these sites are not optimized for different browsers, but rather, IE 11 has some issues which stop the websites from loading correctly.

IE 11 opens web pages fairly well, but some sites, fail to load correctly due to these compatibility problems. It includes some new features, but also has a few issues with compatibility on different websites. Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) is not much different from Internet Explorer 10.
