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cgc · Jan 5, 2007, 08:05 AM

I installed IE7 and absolutely hate it. I cannot find a way to downgrade to IE6...it says it cannot install IE6 since it's older than IE7, even though I removed IE7 via Add/Remove Programs-->Windows Components. I did see an undeletable Internet Explorer folder in my Program Files folder.

Why is this so difficult?

ghporter · Jan 5, 2007, 10:21 AM

Try these instructions. Basically, you have to remove IE7 before you can install IE6. it's doable, just not as simple as it should be.

cgc · Jan 5, 2007, 01:14 PM

Thanks. I did that before I posted and it didn't work. I rolled my system back using that System Restore thing (which I'm surprised I didn't disable like I usually do). Now I've got IE6.

I appreciate your help.

ghporter · Jan 5, 2007, 02:39 PM

As the linked site says, that was with a beta of IE7... Just like MS to change things like that. I'm glad you got it solved, though.

Mediaman_12 · Jan 5, 2007, 06:19 PM

You don't have to go through the full un-install if you want to keep using IE6 (god knows why, as a web programmer I wish it and it's fist full of unpredictable rendering bugs would die a quick death). you can use this standalone version of IE6

cgc · Jan 6, 2007, 10:18 AM

I wanted to kill IE7 because it is an unconfigurable POS, uses a non-standard UI (worse than Opera), and is buggy. IE6 isn't much better but I can make it look like I want and it's a familiar UI. I don't use it, I use Firefox 2, I just want it "just in case."