Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 in standalone mode(IE7)

This is very nice - it works perfectly. The non-standalone version from Microsoft eventually destroyed my installation after it failed and Windows File Protection copied broken DLLs everywhere. Thanks again.

Wow, so great, that's what I want. thx

Youre a legend, thanks so much...

Hi,

I just tried your installer. It downloads IE7 from Microssoft but fails to run the "xmllitesetup.exe" update., although it IS in the update folder. So I started the update manually - everything o.k.

But after that IE7s.exe opens a console window, does its changes but IE7 doesn't start.

My machine: WinXP+SP2

Greetings from Dresden

This appears to work great! Thanks for making this! One question: in your instructions, you said to put IE7s.exe in the IE7 folder, but you didn't say what to do with Cleanup.exe. Put it in that same folder? It seems to run fine without it, but I don't want to unknowingly be messing something up on my system if I don't use it.

Worked exactly as described. Thanks!

I've downloaded your installer but after running it and getting to the downloading of IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu it fails because servername/adress could not be resolved.

Any suggestions?

Seem not to work in this version, not sure why. Clicking on any link does nothing, and clicking the Favorites from the hidden menu (use alt to unhide) just makes the error sound and does not load the list. But for my uses (testing my web pages for compatibility) it's great!!! Thanks so much!
Also, is it possible we can see the source for the program, cause I'd like to make something which runs in the background and checks for existance of iexplore before cleaning up (not 10 second rule). This will make the process faster and more appealing without the DOS look :)

This is awesome to be able to use IE6 and IE 7 at the same time, wonderful. I do have a question, any time i click on any of the menu items, i keep getting a Windows Task Manager: taskmgr.exe - Entry Point Not Found error with the message saying The procedure entry point InternetGetSecurityInfoByURLW could not be located in the dynamic link library WININET.dll, any help is appreciated.
Thanks in adv

Hi, thanks for your hard work!

But if i start the IE7, i have constantly an processor exploitation of 99% for iexplorer.exe. So i can't do anything, or i kill the process.

My System (i don't think that's the problem):
WinXP + SP2, AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2 GHz), 1GB RAM

Any ideas?

Thanks and best regards from mannheim.

hi: just wondering if running the IE7 standalone right after install is ok, or if there's something i need to do first before I run it, thnx

On any Website with the standard drop down list, the standalone version see's it as a pop up and won't load it. I even turned off the pop up blocker and it still won't open. The drop downs work fine in the full version.

After running IE7 standalone my IE6 seems have broken. It fires up ok but any urls return 'the page cannot be displayed error' and the browser title bar displaying 'Invalid syntax error'.

IE7 appears to work as expected.

I am guessing some registry entries have not been cleaned somehow.

Anyone else having a similar problem or is it local to me?

Thanks,

Joe

Tried running IE7s.exe under a standard user account - this fails (popup titled "iexplore.exe - error in application", shown twice). Running as Administrator works fine, though. Guess IE7s.exe cannot create the appropriate reg values without admin rights. Any ideas on how to fix this?

System is XP Home SP2, on Intel Pentium Mobile 1,83GHz (not dual core)

Torsten

Hi everybody,
I have tested your standalone solution on an bigger Webapp Project with many css hacks and scripts and everything looked fine until
I installed the IE7 via the installer.
Since then I have the menubar and the toolbar
with tabs but now our Webproject has some
displaying bugs (menu is not floating and so on). In the standalone everything worked fine.
So if you have to test big sites, install it.

Thanks for your work - the standalone version of IE7 is great, even if some features are missing.

But it seems as if HTTP Authentication would not work - every time I request a such a protected site, IE7 redirects me to res://C:\WINDOWS\system32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm#http://www.example.com/ and shows me:

„Diese Seite kann nicht angezeigt werden
Fehler: Server oder DNS kann nicht gefunden werden”

wich means: This page cannnot be displayed, Error: Server or DNS could not be found.

Is this a know bug of the standalone version? Do I have to live with that or is there something I can do? I wanted to test some sites of mine that are protected by HTTP Basic Authentication…

It seems to me as if condition comments wouldn't work correkt in this standalone Version of IE7 - if there is a

in the source code, the IE loads this stylesheet and follows the rules defined in there, even if he shouldn't do so, becaus it's just for IE lte Version 6.

I couldn't get IE7 to start. I downloaded the Beta 3 from Microsoft, extracted it a folder, and ran xmllitesetup.exe. I then added IE7s.exe to the main folder I extracted the beta to. But when I ran it, I got the DOS screen saying it is adding to the Registry, but this disappeared, and then nothing happened at all. No IE7, no error message, nothing. What I found is that I had to COPY THE IEXPLORE.exe.local FILE INTO THE IE7 FOLDER to get it to work. This file I had from previous standalone versions of IE5, 6 and 7 Beta 2. Maybe add this to the instructions for manual installation? It's just an empty text file, so people can create it themselves, or you could add it to the IE7s zip of files.

You've saved me a lot of work. :) I had to move the files to 'c:\program files' (from 'c:\program files (x86)'), but after that it worked great.

Hi there!

It's critical, to move the ie7b3 folder from c:\programme to c:\program files
, after installing with the standalone installer. Otherwise IE7 won't start.

Markus

I think your installer is great. Here is my concern. When MS finally releases the final version of IE7, it's going to use an auto-update for those that have IE6 with XP SP2 installed.

My question is, will this update install over the IE6 or will there be an option to install over the stand-alone IE7?

If installed over IE6, will we have to install a stand-alone IE6 thereafter so that we can run both IE6 and IE7?

I know about the Block Auto Updates that MS is offering but it's obvious that we need to update to the final release.

Thanks.
Eddie

I'm finding a lot of https sites won't work.

In some cases, where I try to use a login form with posts to an https address, I just end up back at the same unfilled form.

In some other cases, I'm getting "Cannot find server or DNS Error
Internet Explorer" errors when simply trying to browse to certain https addresses. The direct http (i.e. non-SSL) equivalent of these addresses work fine.

For all the https addresses where IE7 simply gives me a DNS error, the sites are using self-signed certs (I'm still developing them and so haven't bought full certs just yet).

All such sites are working fine in Firefox 1.5 and IE6.

It would be nice to be able to fiddle with the security settings, however IE7 doesn't give me the option - has anyone else noticed this?

I now finally have IE7 and IE6 working on the one machine. This has saved me a lot of trouble - thanks Yousif! :)

* starts CSS hacking *

Hi!

I'm a web-developer & was thrilled to hear about your standalone-version. Up 'till now I was using two PCs to check new websites on both IE6 & IE7.

There are problems with your standalone version though:
- IE7b3 original installer had support for alpha-transparent .pngs - your standalone version does not.
- Several border-box-modell problems appear in your standalone-version, that were already fixed in the original installer of IE7b3.
- In general, the standalone-version reminds me more of IE7b2(NON-LayoutReady)than IE7b3

in used the installer to install the ie7standalone. but when i click on the executable, the following screen appears, than after several passed seconds, this black window disappears and nothing happens... anyone an idea which mistake i made?
http://4thcube.de/stuff/x/ie7.GIF

Since the tendency is to submit a comment mainly when something goes wrong, I though I’d help balance it out by submitting a generally positive comment. Yousif, thanks for putting this together, and making it so automatic. I was able to use this to check whether MSIE 7 Beta 3 has the same problem displaying the transparent portion of PNG image files. The answer: it does not have the same problem. And it also displays the workaround php solution that was provided at this URL:
http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/

I did notice a few of the flaws noted by others, such as pull down menus not working at the same time that a pop up blocker bar appears at the top of the browser. I also noticed a new problem that I could not view pages that were password protected on my Web site, but when I placed the same files in the public area, I was able to view them with no problem. I reported this directly to MS. The password protection scheme that I was using is described at this URL:
http://www.password-protection.com/

But the main thing is that this MSIE 7 install works for my purpose of checking Web page compatibility for the new version of the most widely used browser.

Thank-you.

This works great.

So easy.

I'm sure you are a super-genious.

Will you be working on a standalone script for RC1, which just came out?

I tried both install-options (installer and manual way), but after starting the ie7s.exe only a black consol-window appears (very short).

Has anybody the same problem?

WindowsXP SP2 Tablet Edition

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