Have you upgraded or know someone who has upgraded (sic) a machine to IE7 and found that your internal critical corporate intranet sites no longer work, etc etc? Well fear not, Microsoft provides short and sweet instructions on how to go back to IE6.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927177
It is no more complicated than going to the control panel, into add-remove-programs and putting a bullet through IE7’s pretty (but dumb) head.
Turns out IE6 is still there, lurking there waiting for it’s alter ego, IE7, to take some prozac and go away. Hmm. I wonder if there is a simple way to run both IE6 and IE7 on the same computer at the same time?
I imagine there is. I’m not interested enough to find out though.
<blam!> <blam!> Take that IE7! <blam!>
So does this mean all IE6’s oh-so-not-wonderful security holes are in full effect even with an IE7 upgrade? Eeek.
arto
March 17th, 2007
Possibly, but I think more what’s going on is that IE6’s *.dll’s were jammed into a .cab file somewhere on the system and a post-hook in the IE7 uninstall unpacks them back to their original location.
Or at least that’s the way I would do it. Which means MSFT did something really daft with them and they are indeed ‘live’ somehow in the guts of the system still even when IE7 has been installed.
trever
March 17th, 2007