The No-Install IE7 Public Beta Setup
Posted Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 5:21 am by Rain Contreras
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Digg posted the news, but I’ll add in a really helpful tip for it:
How would you run IE7 Beta without uninstalling your current IE?
Get IE7 Beta Public here.
Once the IE7 installer file is downloaded, extract the files via WinRAR, or any other archiving software that can extract an exe file.
- Open the folder where you extracted the IE7 files, and delete the file SHLWAPI.DLL and the folder Update.
- Open a text editor, like Notepad, and save a blank file as ‘IEXPLORE.exe.local’ to the IE7 folder.
- Click iexplore.exe from the IE7 folder (via)
However, it looks like you can’t run the browser as a limited user on a PC, even if its not under a protected folder.
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