Internet Explorer Version downloads

Searching for a download source for IE versions

[Wishful]

Hi all

I need a couple of previous versions of Internet Explorer for testing, preferably versions 4 and 5. Can anyone point me in the direction of a download source. I've done various searches, but because of the search criteria, I'm just not finding anything useful.

Any pointers gratefully received!

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[mipapage]

Go Here: browsers.evolt.org

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[Wishful]

Thank you mipapage, very much appreciated!

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[TGecho]

Oh, and if you figure out an elegent way to run multiple versions on one box/installed OS, feel free to share it with us!

[chadmg]

You can install multiple versions of IE on the same OS
[webmasterworld.com...]

[bill]

It might be easier to use some sort of virtual PC software like VMWare and run your various IE versions that way.

[DrDoc]

It might be easier to use some sort of virtual PC software like VMWare and run your various IE versions that way.

Easier? ;)

Why go to lengths of installing virtual PC software or have multiple partitions when you can do it on the same partition, same OS, and everything? :)

[chadmg]

Yes don't be afraid. Just download the old versions and run the expand command and copy some files over as it says in that thread. It will take perhaps 20 mins to get IE4, IE5, and IE5.5 on your computer.

[DrDoc]

...and it doesn't affect your current installation of Internet Explorer at all. There's nothing to install/uninstall. Just plain files sitting in a folder.

Just remember to include the "iexplore.exe.local" in the folder to force IE to use the local settings in that folder...

[bill]

Sorry, that IE hack just doesn't work on my machines. I did go back and try to get the different versions of IE working following the directions given in that thread. I was able to get a few versions of IE 5.x working to some degree, but in addition to running extremely slow on some high-end hardware, you really can't get these hacked versions of IE to work very smoothly. I couldn't enter text into forms and there was a lot of crashing going on (IE). I'm going to stick with my earlier recommendation.

[DrDoc]

It is important to extract the right files, depending on your OS. The NT files for NT/XP, the "normal" files for all others.
In addition, extracting all files in general works better than just extracting the bare minimum.

[bill]

I tried this on an NT4 Server, Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP machines. I'm pretty sure I was extracting the correct .cab files and did experiment extracting different sets to see if performance or functionality would be impacted (they weren't). Also I went with the full file sets, not the minimal sets. Are you seeing relatively normal speeds and the ability to select form fields?