How do I uninstall IE 7 on Vista and replace with IE 6?

[jediphx]

My mother just purchased a new computer with Vista on it. She is a travel agent and her companys travel software is not compatible with IE7 yet so she needs to downgrade to IE 6 How can you accomplish this?

 

[loup garou]

You can't.
You could see if the software is compatible with Firefox or Opera, or downgrade to XP.

 

[Tarrant64]

If you use Firefox and that doesn't work,

You can use a plugin with Firefox to use IE as a tab within Firefox. This works.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: loup garou
You can't.
You could see if the software is compatible with Firefox or Opera, or upgrade to XP.

Fixed

 

[thirtythree]

This might do the trick:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...-47FE-BD04-FAD82A9AAC9F&displaylang=en

Also try Firefox.

EDIT: That first utility is kind of a pain, by the way. You have to run it and click a button every time you want to access a site that's incompatible with IE7. There's probably a way to permanently change it, but I don't know how.

 

[Nothinman]

This might do the trick:

Not if the webapp is truly broken in IE7.

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

This might do the trick:

Not if the webapp is truly broken in IE7.

Thus the might. It works for the only site I know of that is incompatible with IE7.

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: thirtythree

Originally posted by: Nothinman

This might do the trick:

Not if the webapp is truly broken in IE7.

Thus the might. It works for the only site I know of that is incompatible with IE7.

Also works for the two apps I use at work which only support IE6 - worthy a try.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
If you use Firefox and that doesn't work,

You can use a plugin with Firefox to use IE as a tab within Firefox. This works.

However that only invokes the version of IE you have on the system (probably using the version agnostic progid for mshtml.dll). Last I checked FF and/or the IEView addin didn't ship with the IE6 renderer but I could be wrong.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: jediphx
My mother just purchased a new computer with Vista on it. She is a travel agent and her companys travel software is not compatible with IE7 yet so she needs to downgrade to IE 6 How can you accomplish this?

VirtualPC or VMWare player is your friend. Might seem like overkill but hey, it's better than dual booting or carrying two notebooks. Really tho I would question why the software doesn't work. It's very possible a simple setting tweak could eliminate the problem.

Contact the software vendor's support people and maybe also google for breaking changes from 6 to 7.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: loup garou
You can't.
You could see if the software is compatible with Firefox or Opera, or upgrade to XP.

Fixed

Ahh people did the same "fixes" for upgrades to 2K from XP when XP came out, give Vista some time.

 

[Nothinman]

Thus the might. It works for the only site I know of that is incompatible with IE7.

Then it's not really incompatible with IE7 then is it? Sounds like the "developer" of that site is just an idiot.