Using older version of IE

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On my Win XP Pro system, I have the IE5 and IE5.5 programs. I used to be able to click on the IE5 and IE5.5 executables
and open those browsers. Now when I do that, I open IE6 anyway.

One tipoff to that is that when I supposedly opened IE5, I saw at the top of the screen the warning (part of IE6/SP
2): "To help protect your security, etc."

I also tested through another service and got: "User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;"

So any ideas how to stop this odd behavior on a Win XP Pro system?

Thanks, CMA
 
Win XP has only IE6 installed, and you canot install a lower version.

How did you manage having other versions of IE on it?
 
Kenny said:
Win XP has only IE6 installed, and you canot install a lower version.

How did you manage having other versions of IE on it?
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Hi Kenny:
I did not install other versions. I had the folders with the other versions. They used to open in IE5 and IE5.5 but
now they default to IE6.
 
I find this hard to believe. The IE executales are just starter applications. Shdocvw.dll (a core system file) shows web pages with links that work. Mshtml.dll layouts the page (but links don't work). While I can think of complicated procedures that might work. I suspect that no matter what was said it was all IE6 you were seeing. IE5/5.5 were starting IE6 in reality. This is component software.
 
David,

I agree, because I think I tried this once, and it did not work.....

here is an interesting page though.
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article795.aspx


Kenny


"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
I find this hard to believe. The IE executales are just starter
applications. Shdocvw.dll (a core system file) shows web pages with links
that work. Mshtml.dll layouts the page (but links don't work). While I can
think of complicated procedures that might work. I suspect that no matter
what was said it was all IE6 you were seeing. IE5/5.5 were starting IE6 in
reality. This is component software.
 
I was thinking of sxs and local files. but it seemed unlikely someone would do this accidently.
 
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