Friday, May 23, 2008

Installing IE8

Base on my experience;
  • Don't install Windows XP SP3 when your current IE is not version 7
  • Windows update thru Windows XP SP2 before upgrading to SP3
  • Better to install first IE8 before installing SP3
  • If you can live with it, dont update to SP3 using redist installer. If you really need to update to SP3 let windows update do it for you.
  • Application(s) might not work the same way, if it was designed explicitly to work on atleast SP2.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

How to download the full IE6 SP1...

This snippet come from http://www.updatexp.com/download-ie6.html

How to download the full IE6 SP1...

-First of all you will need to visit the Microsoft website and get the IE6 SP1 installer using this link: ie6setup.exe (479kb)

-Create the following folder on your computer:

C:\Downloads

-Now save this file to this location on your computer.

-Go to the Start Menu and select Run

A small window will appear. type in the following including the quotation marks:

"C:\Downloads\ie6setup.exe" /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E"

A screen like the one below will appear:


NB - Please note that sometimes the process will fail, if this happens try again later and you should have more success. Not sure why, but sometimes you just can't access the Microsoft download site!