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.