IE7 preview beta/IE7 install (merged)

hawkwinddotcom

Was going to put in freebie but this seemed a better place


http://www.betanews.com/

Microsoft on Tuesday made available for public download a pre-Beta 2 release of Internet Explorer 7, which is designed to showcase features the new browser will bring and give developers time to play with the latest technology.

marka87uk

Does anyone know how I can install IE7 Beta 2 yet keep IE6? I can't seem to find any info on it.

A post today on the IE blog says we should test our sites in IE7 so I suppose I better but I don't want it to overwrite IE6.

marka87uk

Don't worry found out how from an article.

Download IE7.

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. I was too chicken to do this on my work computer.

Look in the folder you extracted to for the file SHLWAPI.DLL. Delete this file.
Create a new text file in the folder, then rename it to IEXPLORE.exe.local.

Rex_Mundi

The following article is generally why I don't touch beta software (especially from Microsoft). You have to remember that beta software is not the finished version, and it's not unusual to find these kind of problems (especially if Microsoft is involved)...................

Researchers have discovered a security vulnerability in a preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser just days after its release. A denial of service bug in IE 7 beta 2 creates a means for a hacker to crash the software and potentially execute arbitrary malware on PCs running the code

Full article HERE