IE 7 Beta1

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:11:20 Post Subject: IE 7 Beta1

If you have access to IE 7 Beta 1 and want to play with it, with out killing IE 6, here is a way:

1) Download the IE7 Beta 1 Install from MSDN (Or where ever you get it)

2) Open the install file with WinRAR (yep, it's an EXE, but it's a self extracting EXE) and extract them to a folder. Alternatively, you can just run the EXE, make a copy of the files which are extracted in the first step, and cancel the install.

3) Look in the folder you extracted to for the file SHLWAPI.DLL. Delete this file.

4) Create a new text file in the folder, then rename it to IEXPLORE.exe.local.

Found this info through my work, and I've tried it and it does work. One note I found, ZoneAlarm doesn't like this. There is also a lot of compatabily problems from what I've heard, but this is a good way to test it with out replacing your current version of IE.

Lastly.... this works for all versions of IE => than IE 3.0

Enjoy!

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

DOes it finally save the tabs? Or do they still go away everytime you close IE7?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:48:23 Post Subject:

No, you always start with 1 tab. But you might be able to change things, I haven't played with it much.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:03:16 Post Subject:

i am forever done with ie...i have been usin mozilla since 0.8 firebird and i am pondering switching because popups are getting through because so many people have switched to firefox the ad companies are making popups that fool firefox...

Dud3! · Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:31:00 Post Subject:

That or you have allowed the site because they had a pop you needed. I have a couple sites like that (newgrounds and such).

edvallie · Posted: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:04:40 Post Subject:

I've always been a fan of Opera.

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:43:01 Post Subject:

IE7 has tabbed browsers like AOL, Compuserve, and other 3rd party browsers?

If so, I'll be using IE6 then til I die. God I hate tabbed browsers.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Yup, it's the way browsers are heading. IE is just catching up to the other browsers.

NOthing says you have to use them. You can always ignore them.