Internet Explorer 7 Beta Preview

Friday, February 3rd, 2006 at 8:41 AM | Category: Business, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech 7 comments

The IE 7 Beta Preview has been released and people are talking about it in many places. Some people may have downloaded it and installed it, forgetting that newer versions of IE always take over past versions. Thanks to several excellent resources, it’s possible to uninstall IE 7 and run it separately without losing IE 6.

To remove IE 7 (Thanks, Techenclave):

1. Click Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs.

2. Check “Show updates” radio box.

3. Scroll down the list to find Internet Explorer 7 and click Uninstall.

4. Restart and IE 6 is back where it was before IE 7 swallowed it up.

Run IE 6 AND IE 7 (Thanks, Jon Galloway):

1. Download IE 7 beta preview.

2. Download WinRAR.

3. Double-click on the WinRAR executable to install it and click Install.

4. Click OK from the WinRAR Setup window.

5. Click Run WinRAR.

6. Click File > Open Archive.

7. Click on the down arrow next to Files of type and select All Files.

8. Browse to wherever you saved the IE 7 executable, select it, and click Open.

9. Open the files to a folder of your choice.

10. Close WinRAR (uninstall it, if you wish).

11. Open the folder where the IE 7 files are located. Find and delete SHLWAPI.DLL.

12. In Windows Explorer while you’re in the IE 7 folder, right-click and select New > Text Document.

13. Rename the next document to IEXPLORE.exe.local. Do not add .txt on the end of the file name. That’s the full file name.

OK, I had to nix the last line because a security update broke this. Whenever I tried to open a link in IE6, it opened in Firefox. I have to use IE 6 for work stuff. Thanks to Jon for letting me know. Jon posted the steps here.

When I run it, the IE7.bat doesn’t stay open in the background. So I ran IE 7 normally and then clicked on IE7.bat again after I closed IE 7. IE6 works again.

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IE6 Fails Windows Test

Friday, January 16th, 2004 at 7:51 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech No comments

I re-installed Internet Explorer 6 in hopes of fixing a problem, but it didn’t work. Instead, I got a kick out of it because it didn’t pass the Windows logo test. IE6 fails sm IE6 Fails Windows Test Click on the image to see the full evidence. If this one doesn’t pass, why should it matter if the others fail?

The problem I’ve been having? First – I have ruled out everything and determined it’s a problem with Internet Explorer on my computer. IE and MyIE are the ones having the problem. Mozilla proved it. Opera proved it.

The two situations that are baffling me:

Online webmail. When I check webmail online, I have a choice of three applications: Neomail, Horde, and SquirrelMail. Squirrel is the one I use. Whenever I sign into it, it gives me the (error info). Wondering if it was the server, I went into Horde. Same problem. Neomail — NO PROBLEM! Logical? Not at the moment.

I went into Mozilla and other browsers and didn’t have the aforementioned problems. Uninstalling Google Bar did nothing. The firewall is not an issue. Re-installing IE6 was fruitless and a big waste of time as it took several hours to get it to install. Searching Microsoft’s knowledgebase, checking out the usual haunts like annoyances.org, and Google… can’t find the answer.

SurveyMonkey is the other one with a problem. Even when I cleaned out the cookies, it produces an error cookie. Sheesh! Of course, it works fine in the other browsers. I just can’t let these problems go. The repair person in me wants to find the solution and I KNOW there is one. I contacted Surveymonkey’s tech support — no clues yet.

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