Installing IE6 over IE7

[balikian]

I installed IE 7 awhile back and have a blog I post to:

http://www.cheeseandbeer.com

Problem is, a friend said it wasn't displaying right in IE6. Looks fine in IE7 and Firefox, which are the 2 browsers I can view with.

I wanted to install IE6, but it won't let me, saying I have a newer version. My question(s):

Is there a way to have 2 versions of IE installed?
If not, is there a way to revert to IE 6 without uninstalling 7 first and losing bookmarks and such?
Is there, maybe, a way to just simulate IE6 in maybe a Firefox plugin or IE plugin? That would be ideal.
Are there QA tools that will let you view your site through different versions of browsers?

Thanks

scott

 

[kitty500cat]

Hello, welcome to TechSpot. :wave:

The only way I know to do it is to uninstall IE7, because then IE6 should still be there; check your stuff; and then reinstall IE7. I'm not sure whether IE7's bookmarks and stuff would go back to IE6 or not; is your page encoded in XHTML or something?

Regards

 

[Jesse_hz]

When you install IE7, IE6 actually isn't removed at all! Instead it gets moved to the '%windir%\ie7' folder.
(probably C:\Windows\ie7\ in your case)

To run IE6, go to Start -> Run and type this in: c:\windows\ie7\iexplore.exe

To be honest, I'm not sure about whether it uses the IE7 or IE6 rendering engine, but try it and see if there is a difference.