WBHoenig Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I am currently a FireFox user and am happy to be one. However, when Paul Thurrott said that IE7 Beta 2 was an excellent step forward and that it was now publicably avalible from the MSFT website, I decided to give it a shot. I am running Windows Server 2003 SP1 on my laptop (excellent performance... for some reason better than XP ever did) and it doesn't want to install. It will only go on XP SP2 systems. I tried looking through the extracted files for some 'setup.msi' file or something to put on XP compatibility mode (rarely works... but thought I'd give it a shot) and couldn't find one. Has anyone tried to do this, also? And possibly gotten it to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Run IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe and it will errorBrowse to the temp directory at c:\ and copy the files to another locationWorking within' the extracted directory, delete the following:updateinstall.insspmsg.dllspuninst.exespupdsvc.exeCreate a blank text file within' the directory and rename it to iexplore.exe.local.Move the directory to a location in which you want to store the now standalone version of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 (eg. My Documents).Execute iexplore.exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawan Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 (edited) Extract files and open update.inf, change the value like below:[Version] CatalogFile = %SP_SHORT_TITLE%.cat LanguageType = %LangTypeValue% MaxNtBuildToUpdate = 9999 MaxNtMajorVersionToUpdate = 5 MaxNtMinorVersionToUpdate = 2 MaxNtServicePackVersion = 256 MinNtServicePackVersion = 0 NtBuildToUpdate = 3790 NtMajorVersionToUpdate = 2 NtMinorVersionToUpdate = 1 RebootRequired = 1 Signature = "$Windows NT$"Save the file, run setup from update.exe, and when setup is running copy the original (unchanged) update.inf in the update folder. Copy the file at the moment setup start otherwise it will fail.Pawan Edited February 9, 2006 by pawan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBHoenig Posted February 9, 2006 Author Share Posted February 9, 2006 Thanks! I used the first suggestion; the second wouldn't work for me. I tried to type this message out using IE7, didn't work. Stopped letting me type in the middle of this post. I am back to Firefox. Besides, I didn't like the layout of IE7. This forum offers better support than all of Microsoft combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 yeah when I installed it on 2k3 server that way it was a little buggy also.. I am writing this from IE7 on my xp box but I am having problems typing in WYSIWYG editors.. but it is a beta.. that is what we get.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBHoenig Posted February 9, 2006 Author Share Posted February 9, 2006 (edited) I think I'll wait till SP1 to use IE7. Stick with Firefox before that. Edited February 9, 2006 by WBHoenig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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