Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

When I type a link screen just flashes and the page opens in my default browser (FF). This happens in every IE except ie3. Any ideas?

1st of all thank you for this. I'm having IE7 as my standard system Browsers, IE6 and the rest are standalones. Unfortunately when it comes to Cookies and session on the rest. it fails to deal with it properly, although you can change teh settings of the cookies but it fails to kep or apply the changes.

any fixes or turn arounds for the same?

My.....frikkin....hero

Thank you Thank you Thank you

That was a lot cheaper and more painless than all the other options out there. Thanks for your work!

Man, I so wish I could say these worked, but alas not all of them do.

I had IE 7 previously installed. I am on a Win XP sp2 machine. I work in a big corporation with a firewall which I do not have control over. I do have admin rights for my machine. If these use the same proxy settings etc as the default IE installed (in my case IE7) then it should bo ok, right? (I don't have problems with IE 7.)

Here are the problems I have:

IE 3 = Will not load any pages. After a loooong drawn-out attempt (3-4 minutes) to load a page, I get a prompt box saying "Error: The attempt to load 'http://www.website-name-here.com/' failed."

IE 4 = Loads my work's intranet fine, but when I try to load an external site (any site at all!) I get this error: "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http:///. The parameter is incorrect." (Even though I am loading a www.blabla.com site.) Also, instead of the normal little icon next to the url's in the address bar, I get the "shared" hand-icon.

IE 5 & 5.5 = Work perfectly! Yay!

IE 6 = When I use the address bar pulldown menu to select a URL, I get an error prompt: "http://www.site-name-here.com/ is not accessible. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." However, when I enter a URL by typing it in, it seems to work. But I do get a prompt on some sites that says, "Press ok to continue loading the content of this page." which comes up over and over again (up to 10-14 times for one page) until each element in the page has loaded. This is only for some sites though, not all. (For example, try this Norwegian News site: http://www.vg.no/ ) Possibly only sites with Flash bannerS?

Finally, it seems two files are created on my desktop each time I use IE now: Favorite & globhist (global history?). I don't know what these do but I'd prefer not to have them, or at least that they delete themselves after I am done using IE (if they must be there for IE to work).

Thanks for all your work! Please let me know if there's a way to fix these errors I get. Cheers!

hello,

I have donwloaded and successfully intalled and ran it

That was a few month ago. I have heared taht ms has released their latest

How do I upgrade?

thank in advance

Thanks for the download!

What a time saver - great that IE conditional comments are working.

Now I can try and fix my recently broken IE7 sites - what fun!

Mark

As a site developer, I need cross browser capability.

This article is intriguing and I am ready to take the plunge. At the moment, IE6 is critical to my work. Do I understand that installing IE7 from the MS official installer (overwriting my current IE6) and then running the Multiple IE Installer is the correct sequence and gives me a fully functional IE6 - accepting the occasional IE6 crash?

Also, do you have a source for your Captcha?

Thanks

David

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get cookies working with any version of wininet.dll, on this computer and several others I tried. There must be some configuration difference between these systems (XP SP2 with IE7 final) and the systems that are able to save cookies with IE6 standalone + wininet.dll. Hopefully someone finds it soon, as the sites I need to test all require session cookies.

First of all I would like to thank you for bringing us this great installer. I've been using it for a few weeks on my Windows XP machine now and love it. Even though not all versions are relevant for my browser tests, it's a lot of fun to see what "ancient" versions do to a website.

Since I'd like to move to Windows Vista soon (I know that I might be among a very few), I was wondering if you are planning on releasing a version of Multiple IEs for Vista. I have installed RC 1 and discovered that I cannot launch any other IE version (through your Multiple IEs) than IE 3 and IE 7.

Thanks for reading...

First of all: Perfect installer, but one wish: do you have it as a MSI file, so I can install it easily on our network?

Or the installer package is also ok.

Yousif, can you please add version/build numbers or dates to your releases so I (and other users) know that you have updated the installers?

:)

I am using Google's Blogger and while documenting installing Multiple_IE, I've noticed that when running IE6.0 in standalone mode I always get redirected to a nocookies.html page. I see sessions in .NET work very well, maybe even cookies on other sites, but I have no way to check.
Also I am using a NET Ajax library you can find at http://ajaxpro.info. I will post this problem on their forum as well, but I thought maybe you can also look at it. It doesn't work :)
Most my new ASP.NET sites are using AjaxPro.

Other than that: ultra fast installer, very good idea, I hope it gets picked up by Microsoft and they give you lots of money! :)

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Siderite

Hi,

I'm facing a new problem: I can't print - page setup - print preview in any ie 3 to 6 except IE7. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

Thanks for your work, though, it would be just perfect if I could test my print stylesheets!

-l

First of all many many thanks to you for this great work.

But second unfortunately there seems to be the next problem: IE 5.01 doesn't show iframes... :(
With filemon by sysinternals I can see that it is searching for an "ieframe.dll" (and other files)
but I can't find this file on the internet and I also don't know which version of it is needed.

So, does anybody else have this problem and is there any solution?

Thanks again
inco

Hi,

Thanks Yousif for this work. It is very helpful.

I just downloaded and installed. I only installed Explorer 6 from the package. I am in fact still running Explorer 6 but wanted to test if this works before I actually migrate to Explorer 7.

Cookies are not working for me. I try to login and it fails in sites. I see this problem was corrected on November 7, and since I just downloaded, I thought it would work. Any ideas? I will have to switch to Explorer 7 but also need to keep Explorer 6 working. I already tried standalone for Explorer 7 but then drop downs (select controls) don't work, they are treated as if they were popups.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Veronica

First I'd like to say thank you for creating this, being a web designer I really need the abilitly to test pages in different versions of IE (especially with IE6 being very different from IE7)

I installed IE6 standalone yesterday and it worked great, but today when I tried to use it I keep getting the following error message repeatedly:

BarExceptionHandler :: The specified procedure could not be found.

Any suggestions?

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Ok, that was strange... I had installed a toolbar on IE7 after installing IE6 Standalone, and once I uninstalled that toolbar IE6 began to work again... Does anyone know if this will happen with all toolbars, or does it sound like it was just this particular one?

After upgrading to IE7 and installing the IE6 standalone, I found that Microsoft's Web Developer toolbar works in IE7, but not in IE6.

In IE6, it appears in the list of toolbars, but checking it on doesn't make it appear. This is an essential tool for debugging problems with earlier versions of IE. Any help would be appreciated.

The installer worked perfect! Thank you!!!

Very nice work Yousif. Keep it up buddy.

Thanks

TB

I have problem with Multpiple IE. On non administrator account I can't set size of internet temporary files. On administrator accout it works fine.

I use the excellent X1 indexing program which uses IE to display its results. When IE7 was released it became incompatible until an upgrade of X1 was released. However, I don't like this upgrade and want to return to an earlier version.
I have now run multiple IE installer just to get IE6. I intend to deinstall the latest X1 and go back to a previous version. But since I still have IE7 on my system, will it still default to it, and so not work? Should I deinstall IE7 and run your standalone version?
I appreciate this is really an X1 problem, but they are not replying to my emails and I can't use the program until I have solved this.

I read some DLL files needed to be added to make alpha blending filters work for IE 6.0. Could this be the case in IE 5.5 too as I keep getting this "Library not loaded" error when using DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha filter on objects. Alpha works in IE 6.0 though. What's more, alpha blended PNG files work in IE 5.5 too.

Everything else works like a dream and I could not be happier about your effort in making this available.

-Sven

First off, thank you very much for this download. I also believe I may have come up with a way to improve the crash performance of 4.01 for your SP2 users.

In short, IE4.01 kept crashing on my SP2 (XP Home) installation--in fact, it would not even load but kept generating a crash report: "Windows Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close." Through painstaking trial and error, Joe Maddalone's suggestions, and Evolt's IE Archive, I was finally able to determine that I needed to include the MSVCRT.DLL file. Also, the WININIT.DLL file was not the original 4.01 one and appears to have been the cause of the unnecessary message that always appears on startup about working offline: "No connection to the Internet is currently available." (All I have to do is click "Try Again" and it works, but the original 4.01 wininit.dll appears to cure the problem completely.) I've zipped both of these DLLs together and uploaded them here.

Anyway, these apparent fixes have not been extensively tested, though they do seem to have cleared up a lot of issues on my machine and are certainly worth a shot.

Thanks again.