Microsoft releases final IE 7 beta

#1 Lowdar on 29 Jun 2006 - 15:50

Thanks.

Downloaded and ready to install.

(3 replies) #2 RangerLG on 29 Jun 2006 - 15:51

Do we have to fully uninstall the previous beta or will this update it?

#2.1 InnerGlow on 29 Jun 2006 - 15:54

You have to uninstall Beta 2 before installing.

#2.2 pjak on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:59

...or if you are too lazy (or have run CCleaner - or similar) just delete iexplore.exe (ProgramFiles AND dllcache) then run latest installer.

Last edited by pjak on 30 Jun 2006 - 11:03

#2.3 Remote Sojourner on 30 Jun 2006 - 04:13

Quote - pjak said @ #2.2

...or if you are too lazy (like me) just delete iexplore.exe (ProgramFiles AND dllcache) then run latest installer.

Thanks

I normally delete uninstalls of windows updates so it would have been difficult for me to remove Beta2 but your method worked and saved me from a lot of hassle

(2 replies) #3 Orange on 29 Jun 2006 - 15:52

Even know i'm a Firefox user i still update IE as some times it's good to have a back up browser

#3.1 bush on 29 Jun 2006 - 16:05

exactly.

#3.2 mightyflight on 29 Jun 2006 - 22:22

umm use Opera

(4 replies) #4 IbSta on 29 Jun 2006 - 16:06

Is anyone else getting this bug where once you install Beta 3 and try to open IE7 it opens and closes very fast. I havent been able to install beta 2 or 3

Thanks.

#4.1 RanCorX2 on 29 Jun 2006 - 16:12

can't remember where this came from but it fixes it:

*edit, well it probably came from the link below...

@ECHO OFF
TITLE IE7 Launcher 1.4

ECHO IE7 STANDALONE LAUNCHER 1.4
ECHO Updated for IE7 Beta 2 Preview
ECHO.
ECHO Do not close this window or it will not clean up after itself properly.
ECHO You can pass a URL into this batch file, like this:
ECHO ie7.bat www.microsoft.com
ECHO.
ECHO More info here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2.../28/434132.aspx
ECHO.
ECHO When you close IE7, this will remove the registry key and shut itself down.
ECHO.
ECHO Setting up IE7 for standalone mode...
PUSHD %~dp0

ECHO Removing IE7 registry key and set the version vector to "7.0000".
> %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO REGEDIT4
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{C90250F3-4D7D-4991-9B69-A5C5BC1C2AE6}]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInterface{000214E5-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersion Vector]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO "IE"="7.0000"
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
:: Merge the REG file to delete the IE7 standalone entry
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

REN SHLWAPI.DLL SHLWAPI.DLL.BAK
TYPE NUL > IEXPLORE.exe.local
ECHO Running IE7...
iexplore.exe "%1"

:: Merge the REG file to delete the IE7 standalone entry
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg
:: Delete the temporary REG file
DEL %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

ECHO Removing IE7 standalone files...
REN SHLWAPI.DLL.BAK SHLWAPI.DLL
DEL IEXPLORE.exe.local

:: Set the old version vector "6.0000".
> %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO REGEDIT4
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersion Vector]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO "IE"="6.0000"
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg
DEL %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

POPD
ECHO Complete, closing...

copy to a bat file and run, example ie7.bat

#4.2 IbSta on 29 Jun 2006 - 17:09

Quote - RanCorX2 said @ #4.1

can't remember where this came from but it fixes it:

*edit, well it probably came from the link below...

@ECHO OFF
TITLE IE7 Launcher 1.4

ECHO IE7 STANDALONE LAUNCHER 1.4
ECHO Updated for IE7 Beta 2 Preview
ECHO.
ECHO Do not close this window or it will not clean up after itself properly.
ECHO You can pass a URL into this batch file, like this:
ECHO ie7.bat www.microsoft.com
ECHO.
ECHO More info here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2.../28/434132.aspx
ECHO.
ECHO When you close IE7, this will remove the registry key and shut itself down.
ECHO.
ECHO Setting up IE7 for standalone mode...
PUSHD %~dp0

ECHO Removing IE7 registry key and set the version vector to "7.0000".
> %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO REGEDIT4
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{C90250F3-4D7D-4991-9B69-A5C5BC1C2AE6}]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInterface{000214E5-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersion Vector]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO "IE"="7.0000"
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
:: Merge the REG file to delete the IE7 standalone entry
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

REN SHLWAPI.DLL SHLWAPI.DLL.BAK
TYPE NUL > IEXPLORE.exe.local
ECHO Running IE7...
iexplore.exe "%1"

:: Merge the REG file to delete the IE7 standalone entry
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg
:: Delete the temporary REG file
DEL %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

ECHO Removing IE7 standalone files...
REN SHLWAPI.DLL.BAK SHLWAPI.DLL
DEL IEXPLORE.exe.local

:: Set the old version vector "6.0000".
> %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO REGEDIT4
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersion Vector]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO "IE"="6.0000"
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg
DEL %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

POPD
ECHO Complete, closing...

copy to a bat file and run, example ie7.bat

so everytime I want to use IE7 I have to run this bat file? Is there a easier way?

#4.3 Mocosoft on 29 Jun 2006 - 18:36

The script is not working for me, still opens and closes very fast

.. is there any other method to avoid this ? Please!

edit: nevermind, it runs ok now, smooth and sweet, all what i did was remove the previous beta version i had installed. Just try removing the files (only the files , leave the folders Connection Wizard and the others there!

from the internet explorer folder in your program files directory. thats actually what i did and it worked! lol cuz i messed up the previous install and i had no option to uninstall. try it at your own risk though, could not work for everybody!

Last edited by Mocosoft on 29 Jun 2006 - 20:32

#4.4 RanCorX2 on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:15

Quote - Mocosoft said @ #4.3

The script is not working for me, still opens and closes very fast

.. is there any other method to avoid this ? Please!

yea i just tried it, and ie7 doesn't even work anymore..just brings up an fatal exception error...sucks. back to ie6 & ff again.

#5 Mudcrutch on 29 Jun 2006 - 16:18

seems snappier than beta 2... very nice!

(1 reply) #6 yukycg on 29 Jun 2006 - 16:49

is other language available?

#6.1 Mephistopheles on 29 Jun 2006 - 16:59

Not yet. Other language versions should be available within the next week(s) though.

(3 replies) #7 Croquant on 29 Jun 2006 - 17:07

I'm waiting until at least IE7 SP1 hits before this goes on anything around here.
I've had it with Microsoft and their bug-filled messes.

#7.1 Kirkburn on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:49

Now that's what I call a silly post. It's a beta, if you don't want to ever see a bug, I hope you never install a beta in your life.

Apart from that Beta 3 is very stable and bug-free. You won't believe me anyway.

#7.2 cork1958 on 30 Jun 2006 - 09:28

You may as well wait for IE8 then!!

#7.3 DaViD_BRaNDoN on 30 Jun 2006 - 13:02

...or even IE9 for that matter...

#8 Crayon on 29 Jun 2006 - 17:14

using it so far, i believe it is way alot better than FF right now, and i am a long time FF user. i am officially switched back.

#9 bobp on 29 Jun 2006 - 17:31

The only feature that I like alot is the Internet Explorer RSS handling. So beautiful.

Long time FF user BTW.

(1 reply) #10 *John* on 29 Jun 2006 - 18:04

Whats up with the feeds button?

My feeds button constantly says "Feeds(J)* whats with the (J)???

Oh and some feeds I wish to view, IE comes up with "Internet Explorer Does Not Support Feeds With DTD's" Wtf soes that mean? Firefox has no problem with them?

John

#10.1 Kirkburn on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:51

The DTD issue is known. I don't recall atm, but it's either a bug, security issue, or something they've just not covered yet.

I forget ... it's definately explained somewhere around.

Feeds button thing is odd - not seen that at all myself

(2 replies) #11 jlsniu on 29 Jun 2006 - 18:09

They need to revive IE for Mac! I hate having to boot up BootCamp XP just for a two second job in IE that doesn't work in Safari or Firefox. BootCamp and Parallels both take up too much space just for IE access.

#11.1 Krook on 29 Jun 2006 - 18:19

Quote - jlsniu said @ #11

They need to revive IE for Mac! I hate having to boot up BootCamp XP just for a two second job in IE that doesn't work in Safari or Firefox. BootCamp and Parallels both take up too much space just for IE access.

No - they (webdesigners) NEED to stop making sites with unstandardized hacks that only work in IE.

#11.2 Luppy on 30 Jun 2006 - 04:38

Krook you mean web developers.
And secondly every web developer is happy at this, if you use mac just use firefox, if you use linux, use firefox, if u use windows use ie, firefox or opera.
Save the amount of crap the web developer needs to go through.

#12 GenericAmerican on 29 Jun 2006 - 18:10

I installed but it got hung up so now I'm trying to uninstall and it's hanging again at "Running Processes to Uninstall." It's stuck and no way to uninstall but I can't use it because it's half installed and immediately shuts down every time I try to run it...

#13 Julius Caro on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:00

mmm It's confusing to mix "ie7" and "final" in the same sentence...

#14 MtDewCodeRedFreak on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:00

Installed IE 7 Beta 3 on both XP Pro SP2 and Server 2003 SP1 after uninstalling Beta 2 ... no plms.

#15 limok on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:00

Installs asks for reboot, after reboot still on IE6. LOL

(1 reply) #16 mrk on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:17

When uninstalling BETA 2 it says that several programs and updates may not work anymore if i unintstall BETA2 of IE7 sinc ethey were installed after installing IE7 BETA2, is this just a bogus message anyone know?

#16.1 Kirkburn on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:47

Normal message, you shouldn't worry about it

#17 Kirkburn on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:46

Paul Thurrott's review:
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7_beta3.asp

Very positive, he's not switching from FF just yet though

Using it at the moment myself, it's very nice!

(3 replies) #18 L3thal on 29 Jun 2006 - 19:53

I ran the uninstaller from add/remove programs for IE7b2 and it gave me the message that it has already been uninstalled from the PC and if I would like to remove the entry, so I clicked yes. However, IE7b2 is still installed and I cannot find an uninstaller for it.

How can I remove it?

#18.1 Kirkburn on 29 Jun 2006 - 20:37

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/releasenotes/default.aspx

#18.2 Osprey on 29 Jun 2006 - 20:43

Follow the instructions in the release notes. If that doesn't work, you can try the Microsoft Windows Installer Cleanup Utility

#18.3 L3thal on 29 Jun 2006 - 21:01

Thanks guys.

#19 raananan on 29 Jun 2006 - 20:37

This is a nice one. The seem to change the UI a bit, changed most of the icons. You can now drag the tabs and rearrange them as you like. They also fixed the annoying bug that prevented us to change the language with the keyboard when typing inside the internet page. I guess there are a lot of other changes, but in 3 minutes of use this is wat I saw

Keep up the good job!

#20 techdude5875 on 29 Jun 2006 - 20:45

The people who have the latest build of Windows Vista which is Build 5456 is newer than this build, so we should have beta 3 of IE7 built into Windows Vista already!

#21 Ferret on 29 Jun 2006 - 21:09

Does anyone know if IE7 works with Flight Simulator 2004 ?

I remember when it used to cause major problems for FS2004 (and one or two other programs too), so I have never used IE7 since.

Ferret !

#22 MrCobra on 29 Jun 2006 - 22:02

Works like a charm here.

#23 Cornflake Addict on 29 Jun 2006 - 22:25

Does anybody know if there is still a problem with Adobe Photoshop, in fact any Adobe software does not update with IE7 for some reason it keeps telling you there is no internet connection or the and/or the firewall (something like this)

The updater will not connect to the Adobe server.. uninstall IE7 and it works fine.

#24 virtorio on 29 Jun 2006 - 22:37

Locked up the first time I used it, but it's working ok now. Still though, provides little incentive to switch from Opera.

(1 reply) #25 Hidr0 on 29 Jun 2006 - 22:37

does this Ie7b3 works on vista b2?... cant find a link for vista

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx

#25.1 Luppy on 29 Jun 2006 - 23:40

the one in vista is most likely the beta 3 or similiar

#26 trip21 on 29 Jun 2006 - 23:37

They finally worked out that it didn't display calendars in SharePoint properly, which is a good thing SINCE IT'S A MICROSOFT PRODUCT!!!!

(4 replies) #27 phantom76 on 30 Jun 2006 - 00:36

I have a problem, when I go to run IE 7 Beta 3 I get a short (under a second) Shadow of a browser window and then it closes, no error msg or anything it just goes away, Ctrl alt del doesn't show a copy of IE running

#27.1 pmendu on 30 Jun 2006 - 00:55

Quote - phantom76 said @ #27

I have a problem, when I go to run IE 7 Beta 3 I get a short (under a second) Shadow of a browser window and then it closes, no error msg or anything it just goes away, Ctrl alt del doesn't show a copy of IE running

That probably is YAHOO ADDON being loaded! I had that problem..

GO to IE TOOLs--> MANAGE ADDONS -> UNCHECK "Yahoo Toolbar Helper" that will fix it

#27.2 Guzman on 30 Jun 2006 - 03:43

Quote - pmendu said @ #27.1

Quote - phantom76 said @ #27

I have a problem, when I go to run IE 7 Beta 3 I get a short (under a second) Shadow of a browser window and then it closes, no error msg or anything it just goes away, Ctrl alt del doesn't show a copy of IE running

That probably is YAHOO ADDON being loaded! I had that problem..

GO to IE TOOLs--> MANAGE ADDONS -> UNCHECK "Yahoo Toolbar Helper" that will fix it

I have the exact same problem, and I don't have Yahoo Toolbar installed. I even tried to run it as Internet Explorer (no add ons). Any other ideas as to what might be causing this?

#27.3 Smigit on 30 Jun 2006 - 14:55

exact same issue and it was there in Beta 2 as well although beta 1 ran fine.

#27.4 phantom76 on 30 Jun 2006 - 16:13

[b]Well I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem, I don't have yahoo anything installed so I know it's not a yahoo issue. Any other ideas?

(1 reply) #28 DarkeSword on 30 Jun 2006 - 01:42

Does it still force you to use Cleartype?

#28.1 Luppy on 30 Jun 2006 - 04:39

beta 2 didn't, you can turn it off via the advanced options.

#29 cyberfox2004 on 30 Jun 2006 - 06:52

Yahoo! ships customized IE7 beta 2

Included in this upgrade:
Yahoo! Search built into the browser
Yahoo.com set as the default home page on the primary Tab
Yahoo! Mail loads in your secondary Tab when you start IE7 Beta 2
New, sleek design
Safer web browsing
View multiple web pages simultaneously
Reduce clutter with Tabbed browsing
Collect your favorite content from around the Web with RSS feeds
System Requirements
Windows XP Service Pack 2

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a BETA product. It's possible that you will encounter technical difficulties. For helpful information, please visit Microsoft's Internet Explorer Support web site.

#30 texasjoe on 30 Jun 2006 - 10:21

The two websites that I used for reference and which so far failed to display properly (on Beta 1, 2 Preview and Beta 2) as well as failed to play the embedded videos finally work with Beta 3. The image magnification tool is all I ever wanted. Everything also feels faster. Kudos to Microsoft! Highly recommended!

Last edited by texasjoe on 30 Jun 2006 - 12:38

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