Multiple IEs

Summary: Multiple IEs to the title bar of the standalone browser window.
License: Free
Version: 1.0
Size: 10.3M
Operating Systems: Windows OS
Requirements: Windows XP
Limitations: No limitations
Date Added: Sep 23, 2006

Multiple IEs Description:

Manfred Staudinger perfected the standalone versions by adding IE version numbers to the title bar of the standalone browser window. Moreover, by removing the “IE” key in the registry subkey [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector] Internet Explore defaulted to respecting conditional comments based on the version number prebuilt in the program.

It is not difficult to follow the instructions and get any version of IE running in standalone along side other versions. Most of you probably know of evolt’s archive of Internet Explorer which has them readily packaged in ZIP files. Now suppose you want to download them all. An installer that would conveniently automate the whole process would be great.

IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6
Multiple IEs

Preference
Multiple IEs

Important Notes:

The installer was made to work with Windows XP. With a little bit of hacking it could run on Windows 2000 but this was not tested. See some of the comments below for ways to run Multiple IE on Windows 2000 (page 4).

The Developer tool bar from Microsoft WILL NOT work in IE6.

Sometimes IE5, IE5.5 and IE6 crash unexpectedly.

Multiple IE doesn’t work on Windows Vista.

Microsoft supplemental EULA says : IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR ANY “OS PRODUCT”, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY, OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.

Update December 2007: A recent windows update broke the Multiple IE installation and unfortunately this means you’ll have to reinstall Multiple IE to get it to work again. I haven’t yet identified which update broke the installation.