Shree said:
Well, recently at my work we bought a new application
which will work only on IE5.5 (unfortunately ): )
I meant to reply to this earlier and forgot. Sorry.
FWIW you may find that the only thing that the app is looking for
is an IE55 User-Agent string. If that's the case, you could run
IE6sp1 but just override its User-Agent string.
The best way to do that would be by intercepting the requests that IE
makes for your problem app. E.g. using a proxy filter program such
as ProxOmitron.
A less flexible method would be to do a registry modification which
forced IE to construct and send the desired string. If necessary
you could provide a toggle script so the the custom User-Agent
string is active only at the appropriate time.
Unfortunately the documented way to modify User-Agent specifies an
obsolete implementation. You can get hints about the new implentation
from Jesper Ohlsson [MSFT] reply to me last year:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...+author%3Aaldwinckle+group%3Amicrosoft.*.ieak
<quote>
There has been changes to urlmon.dll file regarding this behavior.
You should be able to use the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent
In here you can for example add a string called 'Version' and it will
replace your current IE version info.
</quote>
This is a bit cryptic but it is enough of a hint to in conjunction with
RegMon to figure out what needs to be done to make IE construct
a changed User-Agent string. If necessary you could find out
exactly what an IE55 browser sends by entering in its Address bar
javascript:navigator.userAgent
(note the odd capitalization of the A and lower casing of the u.)
However, I suspect that all you may really need is to have it send
MSIE 5.5 instead of MSIE 6.0 and the rest can be left unchanged.
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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There seems to be no way i can get back to original OS
install, since the SP's have been installed with "Do Not
Archive" option. After install n remove of SP3, i couldnt
install either SP1 or SP2. Right now im installing Win2k
OS as an upgrade.
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