Installing IE6, or uninstalling IE7

I’ve found a site that provided me with a download of IE6: evolt.org has archives of lots of IE downloads. I downloaded the ugly beast (76MB!) and found I could do nothing with it. First I tried unchecking IE in installed programs -> windows components. But that removed only visible shortcuts and doesn’t actually uninstall IE. Then, after the download, I tried to install IE6. It said I had a newer version and it refused to install. Also, when IE was unchecked in my installed windows components, I got the same message.

Right before I was going to search on how to get multiple instances of IE running, I googled for “uninstall IE7″. That’s where I found the simple solution to check “updated” in the installed programs list. When you do that, it shows IE7beta and you can uninstall it. Sweet, though these are the things that make you feel stupid for not having found it yourself. ;-)

Some people might wonder why I didn’t just tried to dual install IE6 and IE7, so that I might check sites out in both of them. The reason is that I make a great deal of being able to sleep and not worry about yet another browser that fucks up CSS. I’ve heard too many things about how IE7beta still messes up, so I wont test sites in it before a more final version appears. Vista is reported to be released somewhere between september-december so I still have some months of baby-sleep before a release candidate hits the road.