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I had to find a copy of 'IE6 Full' on archive.org in the process of making this blog post. Most copies of IE6 are web installers. I have to say I'm really quit

I had to find a copy of 'IE6 Full' on archive.org in the process of making this blog post. Most copies of IE6 are web installers. I have to say I'm really quite irritated by Microsoft's habit of deleting old software from their download site, forcing people to get it from potentially untrustworthy third parties. I'm fairly sure there's some downloads on there that are just gone for good. And, ah, wow. I was not expecting someone to mention IE HTAs here. Welcome to the club. ;) Another thing for the blog queue in the future, though frankly the number of IE-specific technologies is so large I should probably break it out into a separate series.

chrismorgan 3y ago
I found a full installer, but it still didn’t work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Actually it’s coming back to me now, I’m confident it was IE 5.0 that was installed, because once I failed to install IE 6, I tried to install 5.5, and failed at that too. Really enjoying your series, by the way. So far I’ve known at least a little about all of them save GateKeeper (though I have come across it as a general concept), but I’m impressed with the depth you’re delving to each time. I hope you’re enjoying the process plenty too!
- forgotmypw17 3y ago
  I develop a hyper-compatible Web framework, so I test regularly in 3.0, 4.0, 5, 5.5, and 6. The easiest way I have found to run them is to use VirtualBox with Win95 and WinME VMs. You can make a snapshot of each installed IE version to save space.
ogurechny 3y ago
You both could look for official (checksummed) MSDN of Office CD images from the era, or for other software that stated its support for specific Windows version, and had to bundle important system component updates to depend on. Those installers could still assume offline installation, and work in older Windows.

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I had to find a copy of 'IE6 Full' on archive.org in the process of making this blog post. Most copies of IE6 are web installers. I have to say I'm really quit

by hlandau 3y ago

chrismorgan 3y ago
I found a full installer, but it still didn’t work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Actually it’s coming back to me now, I’m confident it was IE 5.0 that was installed, because once I failed to install IE 6, I tried to install 5.5, and failed at that too. Really enjoying your series, by the way. So far I’ve known at least a little about all of them save GateKeeper (though I have come across it as a general concept), but I’m impressed with the depth you’re delving to each time. I hope you’re enjoying the process plenty too!
- forgotmypw17 3y ago
  I develop a hyper-compatible Web framework, so I test regularly in 3.0, 4.0, 5, 5.5, and 6. The easiest way I have found to run them is to use VirtualBox with Win95 and WinME VMs. You can make a snapshot of each installed IE version to save space.
ogurechny 3y ago
You both could look for official (checksummed) MSDN of Office CD images from the era, or for other software that stated its support for specific Windows version, and had to bundle important system component updates to depend on. Those installers could still assume offline installation, and work in older Windows.