Using older versions of IE

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On my Win XP Pro system, I have the IE5 and IE5.5 programs. I used to be able to click on the IE5 and IE5.5 executables
and open those browsers. Now when I do that, I open IE6 by default.

One tipoff to that is that when I supposedly opened IE5, I see at the top of the screen the warning (part of IE6/SP
2): "To help protect your security, etc."

I also tested through another service and got: "User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;"

So any ideas how to stop this odd behavior on a Win XP Pro system?

Thanks, CMA
 
cma wrote:
|| On my Win XP Pro system, I have the IE5 and IE5.5 programs. I used
|| to be able to click on the IE5 and IE5.5 executables and open those
|| browsers. Now when I do that, I open IE6 by default.
||
|| One tipoff to that is that when I supposedly opened IE5, I see at
|| the top of the screen the warning (part of IE6/SP 2): "To help
|| protect your security, etc."
||
|| I also tested through another service and got: "User Agent:
|| Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;"
||
|| So any ideas how to stop this odd behavior on a Win XP Pro system?
||
|| Thanks, CMA

I should think it's HIGHLY unlikely you have IE5 on an XP Pro system - did
you do an in-place upgrade? If so, the icons are left over from the original
OS.
AFAIK you can't have more than one version of IE on the same OS.
 
cma said:
On my Win XP Pro system, I have the IE5 and IE5.5 programs. I used to be
able
to click on the IE5 and IE5.5 executables and open those browsers. Now
when I
do that, I open IE6 by default.
One tipoff to that is that when I supposedly opened IE5, I see at the top
of
the screen the warning (part of IE6/SP 2): "To help protect your security,
etc."
I also tested through another service and got: "User Agent: Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0;"
So any ideas how to stop this odd behavior on a Win XP Pro system?

Thanks, CMA
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No you don't.

1. You can't have two versions of IE on the same bootable partition.

2. You can't have either version on Windows XP.

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IE 6 was originally delivered with XP (Home or Pro) so you could never have
had IE 5 ot 5.5 on it. Also, whenever you would have installed SP1(a), or
SP2, it would more than likely have installed IE 6, even reuqesting the XP
install CD.
 
Frank said:
No you don't.

1. You can't have two versions of IE on the same bootable partition.

2. You can't have either version on Windows XP.
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So sorry, but you are wrong. See
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article795.aspx . There are some
limitations, but it is perfectly adequate for testing websites. I have
IE 5.01 and 5.5 along with 6.0 on my Windows XP system.

As for the OP's query. I suspect that you may have to re-install the
files described in http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article795.aspx .
 
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