Can I (later if necessary) downgrade from IE8 to IE6/IE7 ?

L

Lorenzo Palmer

At the time when IE7 was released there was no way back to the old IE6 once IE7 was installed.

Now I ask again: Assume I use currently an IE7 or IE6 and I upgrade to the new IE8
can I downgrade later back to my old IE6/IE7?

Or - alternatively - can I run IE8 and IE6/IE7 in parallel ?

Lorenzo
 
V

VanguardLH

Lorenzo said:
At the time when IE7 was released there was no way back to the old IE6 once IE7 was installed.

So where did you cull that gem of misinformation? You never did look in
the Add/Remove Programs applet, did you? All you had to do was
uninstall IE7 to go back to the prior version of IE that was on your
host.
Now I ask again: Assume I use currently an IE7 or IE6 and I upgrade to the new IE8
can I downgrade later back to my old IE6/IE7?

Now I say again: Just go look in the Add/Remove Programs applet in
Control Panel.
Or - alternatively - can I run IE8 and IE6/IE7 in parallel ?

Nope unless by parallel you mean under different instances of Windows,
like one on your real host and another inside a virtual machine (which
makes for an excellent place to trial software).

Note: Your FollowUp-To attempt was ignored. If your post was
appropriate (on-topic) to the groups to which you cross-posted then the
discussion is also appropriate there. Stop being rude to participants
in those other group by misusing the FollowUp-To header to yank away the
rest of the discussion. If your post was off-topic for the
microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web group then you should not cross-
posted there!
 
M

Mellowed

VanguardLH said:
So where did you cull that gem of misinformation? You never did look in
the Add/Remove Programs applet, did you? All you had to do was
uninstall IE7 to go back to the prior version of IE that was on your
host.

I want to uninstall IE8 and go back to IE7 and there is no applet in the
Add/Remove programs section for IE8 or IE7. Any other suggestions?
Now I say again: Just go look in the Add/Remove Programs applet in
Control Panel.

It's not there
 
V

VanguardLH

Mellowed said:
I want to uninstall IE8 and go back to IE7 and there is no applet in the
Add/Remove programs section for IE8 or IE7. Any other suggestions?

Did you scroll to the bottom of the list in the Add/Remove Programs
applet to find "Windows Internet Explorer 8"?

Are you using a 32- or 64-bit version of Windows?
 

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