According to Microsoft, the IE 7.0 Beta 2 can only be run on Windows XP with SP2 installed. It will update your IE 6.0. The following is a work around for that so you can still run 6.0 and 7.0 beta 2 side by side on any NT version.
**I must note, I cannot and will not be responsible for any problems 7.0 or the work around to run them side by side will cause on your system. Some users have reported IE 6.0 acting funny when running both at the same time, or choosing a favourite from IE 6.0 if running alone (takes a while to load the favourite, but it will load and loads an extra IE 6.0). or 7.0 crashing after being loaded up again. If that is the case, I would recommend uninstalling it. Otherwise do the update on an XP SP2 machine and let it update IE 6.0 as MS says it should do. I personally am running both of them together and I am not having any problems. But, that is just me, and as I stated, I am not responsible for anything this does to your computer.**
The workaround that I used is:
1.) Create an IE7 folder on your desktop. Download and extract the exe to this folder (In XP, I right clicked on the *.exe and told it to "extract here". I am sure Winzip or WinRAR will do the same thing if you want to use that.)
2.) Delete the UPDATE subfolder that formed under the IE7 folder that you made.
3.) Delete the shlwapi.dll in the IE7 folder that you made and extracted the IE7.EXE to.
4.) Create a BLANK FILE called IEXPLORE.exe.local with notepad.exe and putting it into the In the IE7 folder that you made and extracted the IE7.EXE to.
Search: Cosmos | BlogPulse
Submit: Digg This | Shout this! | Slashdot
Bookmark: Del.icio.us | Furl It | Spurl | Tag!RawSugar | Simpy This! | Shadows Tag! | Blink It | My Web
GirlGeekteete dotNet Tags: IE 7.0, Beta2, Workaround, 6.0, Microsoft
Technorati Tags: IE, 7.0, Beta2, Workaround, 6.0, Microsoft
3 Comments »
As MS has released a new Beta 2 of IE 7.0 , a lot of questions have been asked. Is it better? Will it be worth the upgrade? What’s new in it? Well.. as of now, like many suspect it is still pretty slow and buggy. As touted by MS it does have a lot of fixes in it. I am extremely happy to see tabbed browsing (multiple sessions in one window like FireFox, Opera, Mozilla, Netscape and the like are capable of now). That is a definite improvement! Nothing like having one browser window open with 10 tabs in it instead of 10 separate windows to clutter your start bar! For a while, that got so handy in Firefox and the like I refused to run IE just because of that!
Other fixes, additions and release notes can be found on the MSDN site. Unfortunately, as of right now, Microsoft claims "This release is only for Windows XP Service Pack 2 for x86 processors as detailed on the Beta 2 Direct Page. Other versions of Windows are not supported for this preview. We expect to offer IE7 for x64 and Windows 2003 Server SP1 in a future preview." Although, I have found a work around for this and I will post it in another article. Although MS does NOT support this setup, so if you run them side, please do not report any bugs to Microsoft.
For those who would like to download IE 7.0 beta2, the download can be found on the MS Site for Beta 2 of IE 7.0.
Search: Cosmos | BlogPulse
Submit: Digg This | Shout this! | Slashdot
Bookmark: Del.icio.us | Furl It | Spurl | Tag!RawSugar | Simpy This! | Shadows Tag! | Blink It | My Web
GirlGeekteete dotNet Tags: IE 7.0, Beta2, release notes, download, browser, microsoft, msdn
Technorati Tags: IE, 7.0, Beta2, release, notes, download, browser, microsoft, msdn
No Comments »