Downloading IE6

[Guest]

Hi. I recently upgraded to IE7 but have discovered that a website I created
is doing peculiar things on IE6, which I don't have on my computer any more.
When I go to the Microsoft download centre the only download I can find for
IE6 is the IE6 Service Pack 1, which is for 'users not running Windows XP'.
However I am running XP. Would this work anyway, and if not any suggestions
where I can get a workable version of IE6 for XP?
Thanks.

 

[Poprivet]

Hi. I recently upgraded to IE7 but have discovered that a website I
created is doing peculiar things on IE6, which I don't have on my
computer any more. When I go to the Microsoft download centre the
only download I can find for IE6 is the IE6 Service Pack 1, which is
for 'users not running Windows XP'. However I am running XP. Would
this work anyway, and if not any suggestions where I can get a
workable version of IE6 for XP?
Thanks.

Since you recently upgraded, unless you intentionally removed IE6, it's
still there. Go to Control Panel's Add/Remove, look for IE7. Remove it.
When it's done, if all goes well, you will be back to IE6.

HTH
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[Jon Kennedy]

I think what you'd like to do is to have both IE 7 and IE 6 on your system
at the same time.....

You cannot install more than one version of IE on each bootable partition of
a hard drive. This is due to file sharing between the OS and IE. What you
will have to do is to format your hard drive into multiple partitions,
installing a version of Windows and a version of IE that the OS supports on
each partition.

These programs can help you with this matter:

Partition Magic - http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
BootIT NG - http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
Partition Commander - http://www.v-com.com/

Good information here on dual-booting:
http://www.kellys-korner.com/par_exp.htm

You might also want to check out VMWare:
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html
Or Microsoft's VPC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Or there's this, but I can't recommend it as I haven't tried it:
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone