HOT! Get the new *public* IE7 preview Beta2

[imported_WBStrip]

I installed the beta and now I dont have my E-mail do any of you know how to get that back I looked in to all the drop downs could not fine it.

 

[Tegeril]

Originally posted by: Dweekie
Directions to turn ie7 into standalone browser. I tried it and it works great. Taken from a digg post.

* Extract IE7B2P-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe to a temporary folder. I suggest winrar.
* Working within' the extracted directory, delete the following:
o update (folder)
o install.ins
o spmsg.dll
o spuninst.exe
o spupdsvc.exe
* Create a blank text file within' the directory and rename it to "iexplore.exe.local"
* Move the directory to a location in which you want to store the now standalone version of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (eg. My Documents).
* Execute iexplore.exe.

There are definitely a couple of bugs if you do it this way, but it's definitely a nicer way to try out the software than have it overhaul your IE6 install.

 

[cessation]

Originally posted by: Tegeril

Originally posted by: Dweekie
Directions to turn ie7 into standalone browser. I tried it and it works great. Taken from a digg post.

* Extract IE7B2P-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe to a temporary folder. I suggest winrar.
* Working within' the extracted directory, delete the following:
o update (folder)
o install.ins
o spmsg.dll
o spuninst.exe
o spupdsvc.exe
* Create a blank text file within' the directory and rename it to "iexplore.exe.local"
* Move the directory to a location in which you want to store the now standalone version of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (eg. My Documents).
* Execute iexplore.exe.

There are definitely a couple of bugs if you do it this way, but it's definitely a nicer way to try out the software than have it overhaul your IE6 install.

I tried this on a Win64 system and now my IE6(32bit) won't load webpages, lol. No big deal I bet it's fixable but just a warning to any other people who want their IE6(32bit) to work under Win64. Plus like Tegeril said, definitely buggy this way...

 

[M0RPH]

Originally posted by: Dweekie
Directions to turn ie7 into standalone browser. I tried it and it works great. Taken from a digg post.

* Extract IE7B2P-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe to a temporary folder. I suggest winrar.
* Working within' the extracted directory, delete the following:
o update (folder)
o install.ins
o spmsg.dll
o spuninst.exe
o spupdsvc.exe
* Create a blank text file within' the directory and rename it to "iexplore.exe.local"
* Move the directory to a location in which you want to store the now standalone version of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (eg. My Documents).
* Execute iexplore.exe.

Warning: This will most likey mess up your IE6 install. I ran IE7 this way for a few minutes and afterwards my IE6 was all messed up. Had to do a system restore to fix it. I'd highly recommend against trying to run IE7 this way.

 

[Winchester]

No W2k support

 

[BadNomad]

A little more Bill Gates in my life. Yea that's what I need.............. NOT!!

i will continue to use Firefox and when I am forced (because of the proliferation of M$) I will use IE.

 

[RideFree]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1917858,00.asp

Oh! How quaint. A security hole...
Yeah, one you could drive a bus through!

 

[BadNomad]

what a shocker... eh

 

[Tegeril]

Originally posted by: M0RPH

Originally posted by: Dweekie
Directions to turn ie7 into standalone browser. I tried it and it works great. Taken from a digg post.

* Extract IE7B2P-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe to a temporary folder. I suggest winrar.
* Working within' the extracted directory, delete the following:
o update (folder)
o install.ins
o spmsg.dll
o spuninst.exe
o spupdsvc.exe
* Create a blank text file within' the directory and rename it to "iexplore.exe.local"
* Move the directory to a location in which you want to store the now standalone version of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (eg. My Documents).
* Execute iexplore.exe.

Warning: This will most likey mess up your IE6 install. I ran IE7 this way for a few minutes and afterwards my IE6 was all messed up. Had to do a system restore to fix it. I'd highly recommend against trying to run IE7 this way.

Yup, same happened to me, going to have to system restore at some point, sigh. Gotta wait for a few things first though...

[edit] Maybe I'll just install IE 7 the right way.

 

[Matt L]

You know not too long ago I would have been the first to try IE7, now I just regard it as a curiosity. Thank you Firefox!

 

[jm0ris0n]

This deal is ICE COLD: Its called FireFox !

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: jm0ris0n
This deal is ICE COLD: Its called FireFox !

only if you could preach that to every incompetent web designer to comply to HTML standards and not go IE-only! Unless you could do that favor for us, I will give IE 7.0 a try when it comes out without the beta tag.

 

[slothman]

Just a fyi, there exists a standalone IE7B1 out there. It was the last standalone that MS put out. It didn't cause any problems with my IE6. But just keep in mind it relies on registry settings. So if you never installed IE or the MSHTML framework then it won't work.

 

[nuonce]

Fixed Link

 

[RideFree]

Summary:
Critical: firefox security update

An updated firefox package that fixes several security bugs is now available.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Originally posted by: nuonce
Fixed Link

Fixed the Fixed Link.

 

[timswim78]

I've been trying the new IE 7 Beta 2 for a few days now. I have to admit that I was skeptical at first (I ran only Opera and Firefox for about a year). However, I really like the new IE.

Some of my favorite features are:
- The management of favorites. I like the window that easily opens and closes.
- The navigation buttons new layout.
- The deletion of the file bar.

My only beef right now is:
- The absurd amount of pop-up messages that IE gives me. (I am sure that I can shut them off somehow).

 

[KF]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: dealseaker

Originally posted by: jodhas
Hey folks, How do i get around the genuine software advantage thingee?

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downlo...3-0e6c-4f1b-995d-18dbad9531e2&Error=20

GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND, why would you ask something like that here?

My copy of Windows XP Home is legitimate (Got it with my Dell) and I still failed the check.

Apparently if you do not use MS Internet Explorer as your browser, you have to get a plugin from MS to get through Windows Genuine Advantage validation.
Link
I am not sure because I have no use for it. I'm not sure if this is what the poster was running into in the first place, or if actually he had a cracked Windows setup.

I suppose MS legally had to do this considering the anti-trust case, where they consented to supposedly unbundling the browser from the operating system. I don't think they would want to go another round on that one. You never know how it is going to go in court.

 

[clipperfixer]

I got so fed up with it that I uninstalled, or I did not uninstall it, you can't. So I did a system restore from last week to get my IE6 back. I don't like firefox, I use Opera when I want tabbed browsing and I use "Off by one" when I want security and a lightening fast browser. The buttons on IE7 were just bizarre. I hope the final version is better than this.

 

[RandomFool]

I was really expecting alot more microsoft bashing in this thread.

So far I like IE 7, It seemed a little slower than 6 when i first ran it but I think it was just the computer I was on.

 

[clipperfixer]

No Microsoft bashing here. Just don't care for their new model, the old one works for me. It is a little frustrating not being able to uninstall, but Microsoft built in a way around that too! Hey, for my money XP does more than any other operating system. Is it perfect? heck no, does it do what I want? In almost every case. I don't want to start a Micorsoft hate war going, but my post was not bashing, just don't like it. As far as all the virus and phishing and security problems, well I keep everything updated, OS and antivirus and run someother utilites as well. I just don't have problems with it. In fact my up time on my desktop is weeks before a reboot, and then its usually because the power blinked off long enough to kill the computer. It's Ok by me.

 

[RideFree]

Yeah, XP has finally gotten itself ready for prime-time and no sooner that that. . .
Vista :thumbsdown:

 

[Zebo]

What's wrong with windows 2000? I been using that since 2002. As far as browser I use Avant browser which I believe is a shell on top of IE. I tried this beta at work on xp and the features are much weaker than avant.

 

[clipperfixer]

Ok, I think I just found browser heaven, I went and got Advant, the IE browser shell. I LOVE the full screen mode. I got one of the Compaq v2000 lappies and it is a 14 inch wide screen. I don't like a lot of things at the top or the bottom of the browser because it takes up a lot of vertical real estate on the screen. The full screen mode is awesome. It was also very easy for me to set up, I guess because it is an IE shell. So far I love it. WAY better then IE7.

 

[jhansman]

Completely broke my internet connection, i.e., once installed I had to tell OE that yes, there is a connection, EVERY time it started up. The best part is when I went to do a System Restore, it wouldn't run from the Help & Support screen. What a bunch of dildos.......

 

[KF]

Originally posted by: VanillaH

Originally posted by: jm0ris0n
This deal is ICE COLD: Its called FireFox !

only if you could preach that to every incompetent web designer to comply to HTML standards and not go IE-only! Unless you could do that favor for us, I will give IE 7.0 a try when it comes out without the beta tag.

Here is what I was quite POed to read, after deciding one day it was a good idea to translate some personal mathematics stuff into HTML, seeing as how a lot of math sites have just beautiful math output. At last there is a common, open standard (not propietary) for math documents, I thought.

It seems that HTML, whatever it once was, is scheduled for deprecation; meaning it no long is to be used in new work and need not be supported. You know: like Windows 3.1 programs. The cause, they say, is that HTML is hardly used any more. ??? Most currently produced pages are done by executing "scripts" (those .php files?) and the current defacto standard for new work is said to be CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). A page that has anything "cool" on it, anything but linear text, is liable to be an uncertain hodge-podge of warmed-over quasi-standards if it desplays with older browsers. They might even "detect" your browser, and act differently, possibly wrongly.

And did you ever try to create a page with one ot those self-described easy-to-use, WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet programs? It is painstaking and aggravating. After RTFM (which was not bad), I spent 2 hours of puzzlement and input to produce one equation, that might have taken seconds to write. Maybe that will come down to a half hour with experience. Needless to say, a short math document will commonly contain a dozen equations. And that single equation was not exactly as it should be. I couldn't quite revise it the way I wanted because the program was not able to "unwind" some parts in the middle without messing up things adjacent. You see, the program is actually generating excruciatingly involved, nested instruction streams that a browser assembles into what you see on the page, and there is no 100% unambiguous way to figure what needs to be undone, short of deleting everything back to the change point. If you never make mistakes, change your mind, or make revisions, this won't be a problem.

You want to see something? Try this: In your browser, save a page by using the File menu. Rename the file type to .txt instead of .html. Yes the base HTML file is all text, just interpreted into something else. Look at the file in WordPad. You have to see it to believe what interminable, incomprehensible crap is in there.

You will also notice that some pages "CANNOT BE SAVED" I'm not talking about pages that have something wrong. I mean, nothing. That's right. Despite the fact that the browser has everything it needs loaded right there on your computer, the browser CAN'T figure out a way to make files that replicate the page. Seems a bit odd. It is IE that has the disparity. I haven't found any pages that Foxfire can't save yet, provided it can do the page in the first place.


It also turns out that IE needs a plugin and an auxillary (.XSL) file with my math file in order to display the equation. But Foxfire long has had the extended capability built in. Except that the needed fonts are separate (until they are finalized. due out next month, after 12 YEARS? in the making.) IE may need the analogous fonts too, to look right.

The more capable standards seem to have been around for years. But instead pages have little pictures in the places where equations appear. They can be nice pictures. But you can't be revising equations that are little pictures somebody else made, and call that an open standard. You see the point.

Pardon the length.