Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

Is there any way to run something like the IE Developer Toolbar or Firefox Web Developer add on using Multiple IE?

Just wanted to say thank you - amazing - straight forward and just does what it's meant to. Thanks again. John

No logro imprimir desde la version ie 6 de este programa, al momento de pulsar sobre la opcion de impresion o la opcion del menu no imprime

When I click on a dropdownlist on a webpage in IE7 the IE6 crashes.
Can something done about this?

I installed Multiple IEs with no problem, but when I ran IE6 and went to the HELP menu and chose "About Internet Explorer" it shows that I am running version 7.0.5730. Why is this? Is it not IE6 but really IE7? Or did I not install the program properly?

there is error when we update my pc the IE 7 not work
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Thanks for a fantastic product! (Thanks alone doesnt pay the bills, so I just sent you some coin as well)

I have found the software very helpful for testing my software on older browsers. Worked like a Charm!

Thanks again!
Rob

I'm currently doing some software testing, and I'm wondering which service pack these IE versions come with? How can I check this?

When I load a page which contains Flash ads in IE6, every time it tries to load the ad it popups this error message "Press OK to continue loading the content of this page". Does anyone know how to deactivate this?

a nice work, this is what i need
thx

Even though the MultipleIEs installed IE6 version is 6.0.2800.1106, help-about is still reporting IE7 version numbers. Is this because the help-about call is looking at default browser registry entries?
Problem is I'm using older software that won't launch without IE6, yet it can't find 6.0 on the system when installed as standalone.
I was hoping to keep IE7 installed and IE6 as standalone.
Any tricks?

any chance of including the IE8 beta install within Multiple IE????

if this works I will love you forever...and ever.

Some people, including me, have still problems with cookies.
I can add to the discussion that my IE6 is not accepting cookies for my Plone site, which I want to test.
At the time, though, reddit.com and other login sites work great. Maybe it's something about the software that manages the cookies (Plone in my case)?

I have IE 7 installed and I am trying to run the Multiple IE package. When I check on the version ( for example in the IE 6 window) is says it is still IE7.

I have checked the registry and it does in fact say xIE and it is showing 6.0000

Just found you on a Google search, and this is just what I need. Well done.
Alan

Thanks so much, i really need this!!

This is really minor, but I'm running objectdock as my taskbar and when I have multiple processes running with the same filename, they insist on using the same icon (even though the .exe's are in different places). I have tried changing the filename of my standalone IE's, but that causes them to run in 'compatibility mode' (a little popup proclaims it when you start the app). I've even tried editing the .dll's etc to try and replace references there to the new filename, but I cannot get rid of compatibility mode--anyone have any idea why this is happening?

we web developers have to test our sites in IE 6 and IE 7 so this is really helpful for that. Thought IE is not a good browser have to make the websites to work on it.

Best thing I have downloaded in years.
Thanks.

Its a nice tool.
Thanks a lot.
-Simon

I just wanted to say 'thanks dude'

..so without further ado, thanks dude

Thanks for this. will give it a whirl, cant be bothered reading all the comments for any bug reports etc :P

Thanks. Excellent for a web developer who needs to test his sites in IE6 and IE7 on the same computer.

Nice work!

Use the Proxy toolbar for MSIE from this website: http://www.swodum.com !

This proxy toolbar fixed my proxy issue.

with kind regards

Norman Schwaneberg

I'm a web developer and, after the Windoze Update forcibly installed IE7 on my Windows eXtra Pathetic setup, I found that I could no longer test sites, pages and scripts in IE6. This would be a pain as there are lots of IE6 users out there, and as IE6 is 'quirky' (to put it mildly) with CSS and the DOM it's essential that I test my stylesheets and Javascript progs out on IE6. This utility is thus extremely useful, so many thanks to the developer for putting the effort into it and making it publicly available. When I installed it I thought for a mo that IE6 hadn't installed as the About box claims IE7, but that's obviously just a Registry value - it was truly IE6 that was running, and I was able to run IE7 alongside it.

And a big raspberry to all the trolls and flamers ;-\

Fred Riley, School of Nursing, University of Nottingham, UK

I've reinstalled Multiple IEs, still unable to focus into textareas and text inputs. Interestingly though is that tabbing through a form, the elements are being considered, but they still do not focus

I installed this simply to run IE6 along with IE7, so that's all I chose from the installation menu. It added the IE6 shortcut to my desktop but when i click it, it always starts IE7.

Am I confused about how this works?

Has anyone started having problems with cookies again in older versions of IE than 7? I don't know if an update has caused this problem but cookies simply don't work any more in Ie6 and 5.5 at least.

Very useful utility in situations where I can't use Firefox (ie, work) but still need ancient IE6 for some work apps while also running IE7 (which is better than IE6 but crappier than Firefox). Works great first time. Thank you!!!

Hi

MS Autoupdate has installed sp3 on my machine and now MultipleIEs (which has been working fine) fails on IE5 and IE5.5.

I've tried reinstalling several times (and rebooting, obviously) but no dice :(

Anyone else seen this or is this just my install?

Thanks!

I've found that the IE Developer Toolbar works after removing Wininet.dll from the IE6 folder. (I assume there's a conflict between the two.) This means, however, that cookies will not work.

Jeff

I got developer toolbar working with IE6 SP2 (v 6.0.2900.2180) using these steps:

1. Install 7-zip
2. Extract XP SP2 installation package into some directory (open the .exe file with 7-zip)
3. For each one of these files:

browselc.dll dxtmsft.dll mshtml.dll urlmon.dll xpsp2res.dll
browseui.dll dxtrans.dll shdoclc.dll vbscript.dll iexplore.exe
jscript.dll shdocvw.dll wininet.dll mshtml.tlb

Find the corresponding files, i.e., browselc.dll corresponds with browselc.dl_

4. Open the corresponding file (i.e. browselc.dl_ for browselc.dll) with 7-zip
5. Create an empty directory for your portable IE
6. Extract the file in no.4 the the directory in no.5
7. Create an empty file named iexplore.exe.local
8. Copy dispex.dll to the directory in no.5. It's not in the SP2 package, so you'll have to copy it from another source. I copy it from C:\WINDOWS\system32. My dispex.dll version is 5.6.0.8825.
8. You can test your portable IE version using
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/sidepages/cond_1.html

I can't get IE6 connect to internet either but I can connect to my local http server. I even uninstalled my firewall software and still can't get connect. Furthermore, I checked the request sent by IE6, the DNS has resolved, the request to the host has sent but no more. My IE7 and Firefox are both working fine.

Fantastic product for developers guys.

As of today, Aug 21 2008, our standalone IE6 (which has worked fine for about 2 years) on more than one XP machine, has serious problems with displaying images, and subsequently crashing. We suspect a microsoft update as per December 2007. Has anyone experienced similar problems and if so, does anyone have a solution to fix the problem.

Thanks for taking us to the past when you just said"damn IE and Billy Gates, f*ck with your mocosoft". Still people using win 98, or more beyond, still people using IE4 ? oh my Godness if so, please wake me up.

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also, the "MultipleIEs on the Web" shortcut in the start menu needs updating to this new location for the program.

Thanks a lot for creating MultipleIE, it has helped me create a super compatible site!

ie 4 - There are heaps of script errors. Either saying yes or no results in ie locking up and I have to close because I can't get to any menu options at all.
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ie 6 - keeps asking me to press ok to keep loading the page. I can see that my favourties have been imported somehow from IE 7. The little message asking me to press ok to keep loading the page is a pain.

I have XP Pro SP 2 and IE 7.

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In the IE 6 version and other version other than 3 if I remove the dll shdocvw.dll it will run otherwise it throws an error with the report a bug pop up and will not open. Any idea what this dll does and if I just get rid of it opens but it asks me several times if I want to continue loading content when I hit pages.

I have a fully patched/updated xp sp2 as of 8/28/08 so it may be an update or somethign causing this.

I have just installed MultipleIEs on my system (xp home). Unfortunately every-time that I try to open IE6 it freezes and I have to use Windows Task Manager to shut it down.

Has any one experienced this issue? Is there any sort of a fix for this?

Thanks

Hi,

Great application! Just wondering if anyone has been able to figure out how to get IE6 to accept cookies?

I get a bit frustrated seeing this dumb nag on IE6 (especially today, working on a `framed' site, which loads 3-4 flash animations at a time), so I decided to fix it the hard way - assembly debug and crack-a-like bytefix :)
After 5-10 minutes walking through all the .DLL's IE6 uses locally (.local :p) I've found the MessageBoxA calls in MSHTML.DLL, so breakpointed it and verified the shit is there.
Here's a little bit of information from the debugger (OllyDbg 1.10)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
va              : 637a66b9                                                              
original code   :                                                                       
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 68 00200000    push 2000                               ; arg 4                         
 8d85 f0f7ffff  lea eax, dword ptr[ebp-810]             ;                               
 50             push eax                                ; arg 3                         
 8d85 f0d7ffff  lea eax, dword ptr[ebp-2810]            ;                               
 50             push eax                                ; arg 2                         
 56             push esi                                ; arg 1                         
 ff15 d0135863  call dword ptr [<&SHLWAPI.#340>]        ; this shows the messagebox     
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've simply NOP'ed the 26 bytes.
Here's the resulting patched file (7zip compressed)
Download mshtml.7z

Yeah, the lame remark - do NOT forget to backup your existing MSHTML.DLL file.
Yeah, the second lame - Files are located somewhere in C:\Program Files\Multiple IEs\IE6\ (default)

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there are only 10 kind of people - those who understand binary and those who don't..
true code - true power!!

Can we add IE7 to the list. I think it's starting to be important because we need to test in ie8 now... it isn't as forgiving as ie7 & ff.

Can you please stop offering this download? That way I as a webdesigner have a good excuse not to adapt websites to IE6 anymore, because "unfortunately, I don't have and can't install that browser on my computer".

Please, think of us webdesigners. Shoot a Microsoft employee today.

Like many others I had IE7 installed as my default browser, added MultipleIE and found out that all my legacy browser bookmarks opened the print dialog. However, I found a workaround that helped me avoid re-typing my URL every time:

Go to the starting page for your test website and set that to be your homepage. All the stand-alones will map the home icon to that URL. Unfortunately IE 7 switches too, but at least in IE7 you can set more than one URL as your homepage, so it's workable.

If anyone has found a more permanent fix, I'd love to see it, because I miss not having my other bookmarks!

I installed IE6 from you installer on WinXp with no problem, but when running IE6, windows now seems to be blocking focus to the application. I can neither tab to it or click on it with the mouse. I was able to kill the process in the task manager but that's it...

As of this date, January 23rd 2009, WinXP appears to be blocking the use of IE6.

I uninstalled it.

-d

Apologies if this has already been covered (I couldn't find any reference to it).

The IE6 standalone works a treat (running alongside my IE8 RC1 on WinXP SP3) though it seems I cannot select or enter text at all in any web page (IE8 is unaffacted). Form fields can receive focus but I can't enter anything into them!

I wonder if you can confirm that this is a limitation of the standalone rather than a true reflection of behaviour in a native installation of IE6?

I can live with that if that is the case as it is still a robust test of IE6 rendering in all other respects.

Thanks for all the good work on this.

Tredosoft has done an awesome job of making standalone IE versions available for devs. It makes my job that much easier.

One thing I noticed is that the IE6 image flicker fixes (JS and CSS) don't work in the standalone. However, it does fix image caching, you just won't be able to see it with the standalone.

In other words:

<script type="text/javascript">
try {
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache",false, true);
} catch(e) {}
</script>

and...

<style type="text/css">
html {
filter:expression(
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true));
}
</style>

Both of these do fix the cached image flicker ridiculousness, but you won't be able to see the results in the standalone.

You can download Dll files for any version of Internet Explorer on download dll files page from GiveMeFile.Net

GiveMeFile.Net Download drivers and windows dll files

Does anyone know if there are plans to update this package to include IE7 now that IE8 is out? If so, would there be any platform specific restrictions? i.e.) Issues on Vista.

Thanks! Love the package, very helpful.

-Steve Nickerson
http://www.snickersweb.com

For those who haven't noticed, Tredosoft states on the Multiple IE page "Multiple IE is no longer maintained and there are no plans to continue maintaining it!".

I successfully tested a regular IE8 install, combined with IE7 standalone, and Multiple IE for IE6.

Then I ran across this surprisingly sparsely mentioned alternative, Internet Explorer Collection http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm - I removed the former IE7 standalone and multiple IE. Again, with the regular installation of IE8, I used Internet Explorer Collection for IE7 + 6. It's a tidy installer, including the developer toolbar that works in all versions (first time I have this working with IE6!)

Both these solutions have the issue of form selects not dropping down, instead triggering the popup blocker notification, on 8 + 7, but works in 6, and text fields receive focus only in IE8.

Does anyone know of anything that will allow IE7 to continue running on my PC after I install IE8??? The installer is great, but since its no longer being maintained I'm guessing IE7 isn't going to be added to that.....

Help!

For more information see forum topic: http://www.devalvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2495

I was also having issues with cookies in IE6. I installed the IE Tab extension for Firefox and set the IE path to the Multiple IE installation folder. It now seems to accept cookies (not sure if it's accepting them through FF or what) but it could work as a possible solution for those having the same issue.

Nevermind, the extension still uses IE7. Still looking for a cookie fix...

The download link in Polizei's fix for the IE6 nag (21/10/2008 above) is dead, so I made another mshtml.dll according to his instructions. It is here.

N.B. Security-conscious users who want to check no dodgy changes were made could compare the modified dll to the one in Multiple IE's IE6 drawer by opening a DOS box and using the FC command with /B switch.

Steven Stevenson