Jlo555 Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Is there any way that I can install MSN Instant Messenger 7.0 without having to have internet explorer 6 installed. MS has never had this as a prerequisite in the past, but I tried to login to MSN IM 6.2 one day, and it told me I needed to upgrade to 7.0. I downloaded 7.0 and it said I needed IE 6. How do I get around this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurgelmeyer Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Yep - navigate toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorerin regedit, and change the first digit in "Version" and "W2kVersion" to 6. Install MSN Messenger, and change it back to 5.Gurgelmeyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlo555 Posted September 13, 2005 Author Share Posted September 13, 2005 Thanks a bunch! I've been wondering how to do this for quite some time. Frankly, I think it's pretty stupid of Microsoft to "require" IE 6 just to us an instant messenger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shooter468 Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 ive been using MSN for a long time and it never asked for IEand i even removed everything to do with IE using nLite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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