In all honesty, if you're doing anything other than facebooking, you probably shouldn't use IE anyhow. That's no excuse, but IE is an absolute nightmare to develop for. You'll find that other browsers are much better at pretty much everything.
As for re-upping, can't you do that in the console?
Hi ScruffR,
I have been using photons for over an year now. But lately, the console page https://console.particle.io/ is giving 404 error each time even after the code flashes successfully on my photon? Any heads up on this will be really helpful.