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How do you install MSIE7 in Windows 7?

I need to install Internet Explorer 7 on my Windows 7 machine. How can this be done?

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What additional/alternative functionality do you need from installing IE7? I only ask as there may be an easier workaround. – kez Aug 30 '09 at 10:13
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I assume the asker needs IE7 for web application testing purposes... right? – Yuval Aug 30 '09 at 12:04
I couldn't see any other reason. IE8 has better standards capabilities, IE6 has been standardized on by many lazy developers, but IE7 is the red-headed stepchild of the Trident engine family. – Chris Charabaruk Aug 30 '09 at 15:41
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I'm a web developer and need to run tesst on every browser. that's one good reason – vsync Dec 12 '09 at 15:25
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You can't install Internet Explorer 7 but you can run it inside Internet Explorer 8 (as the rendering engine is bundled) by doing the following (NOTE: This method also works in IE 9):

  1. Open IE8
  2. Open >Tools >Developer Tools
  3. Switch Browser Mode to IE7 and Document Mode to IE7

Alternatively, you can download an installer for every Internet Explorer version from http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

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This is so cool. now I can also use its superb (relatively speaking) developer debugger – vsync Sep 2 '09 at 18:45
Just to point out IE 6 does not work correctly on Vista, so is unlikely to work correctly on Windows 7. – Macha Oct 18 '09 at 12:49
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We're in the same boat; unfortunately we've found differences between "real" IE7 and IE8 with DocMode set to IE7, so we've got with multiple VMs. – StevenV Aug 4 '11 at 18:34
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You can't install it natively since Internet Explorer 8 is already part of Windows 7. But you can use the Virtual PC Image supplied by Microsoft for that purpose.

Another option would be to install Internet Explorer 7 within the Virtual XP mode, provided you have at least Windows 7 Professional.

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I do have Windows 7 Professional version. I'm a web developer, And working from my computer localhost, so i think that Virtual PC might be a problem for me. – vsync Aug 30 '09 at 11:03
Where would Virtual PC be a problem for you? I don't quite see it. – Joey Aug 30 '09 at 20:09
virtual PC is an insulated environment, how can it access it's parent computers' localhost server ? – vsync Sep 2 '09 at 18:47
You can very likely still access the host computer by name. Just because the VM runs on the host system doens't mean they can't share a network ... – Joey Sep 2 '09 at 22:40
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While you can't install IE7 on a Windows 7 machine, there's a program called IETester which provides historical versions of the Trident rendering engine (the core of Internet Explorer). IE7 is included as one of those historical versions, so you'll be able to evaluate how a site renders, without needing to actually run IE7 itself.

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To add to Chris Charabaruk's answer, there's also something called MultipleIEs, which accomplishes the same.

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yes I was using this program ever since it got out, but no more, because I've stopped supporting IE6 :) good program. – vsync Dec 12 '09 at 15:23
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