Internet Explorer 7 on XP SP3

[ND22]

For compatibility purposes I am trying to install IE7 on several machines that have windows xp sp3. All other updates except IE and WMP have already been installed. However I am unable to instal IE7; the installation fails every single time and I could not find a workaround yet; searched the net and nothing came up! Any help it's much appreciated.

[Ponch]

searched the net and nothing came up!

 

 I hope you had at least an error message to google.

[ND22]

That's the problem! Event viewer shows nothing related to the setup of IE7; the setup starts and aborts with the message: IE installation did not complete; please restart your system and that's it!

IE6 is the only browser installed; no other browsers were ever installed on these systems.

Edited December 12, 2014 by ND22

[Tripredacus]

Are you trying to install IE7 from a standalone installer or from Windows Update?

Have you done any fiddling with the registry, such as that method to make Windows Update think that XP is an Embedded OS?

[ND22]

1. standalone installer.

2. yes, reg patch applied!

3. windows update does not offer IE7.

[dencorso]

Redownload a fresh copy from MS and try again with the newly downloaded copy: IE7, one never knows, your installer might be defective... then again, it used to require SP2, so it may bark at SP3 or, more probably, POSReady 2009. Let's see.

[ND22]

Downloaded a copy from the link above. No luck! Installed XP in a virtual machine, SP2 only; IE7 installed just fine! Removed IE7 and installed SP3; afterwards installed again IE7. Installation went smooth, no problems. Must be some of the post-SP3 updates or the regfile used to transform XP in POS!

[Ponch]

Undo your reg tweak, (try to) install IE7 then redo the reg tweak.

[ND22]

It worked!!! Deleted the key in the registry, installation went smooth, running IE7 on real hardware at the moment!! Thanks a lot! Now to setup the other 89 pc's left...

[erpdude8]

any good reason why you want to use IE7 instead of IE8, ND22?