IE8 will not work on Windows 7

miniyazz

miniyazz

miniyazz

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Hi guys, wondered if you could help me with a little problem I'm having.

I need to install Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 (64-bit, SP1).

An easy task, you might think.

Firstly, there's no download link for Windows 7 on the Microsoft Download page as apparently all Windows 7 installations already have IE8 installed. Mine doesn't - I have IE9, and on add/remove Windows components, IE9 is my only option.
Secondly, using the download link for IE8 for Vista x64 doesn't work, even when running with compatibility mode for Vista, the installation fails, for an unknown reason.
Thirdly, downloading the developer pack IEAK8 and using that to generate my own custom build of IE8 for Win7 failed because despite choosing the x64 option, it refuses to build anything except an x86 version, which of course won't run on my x64 OS.

I'm kinda running out of options here. There doesn't seem to be a version of IE8 available for Windows 7 - but surely developers etc must be able to install it for troubleshooting?.

In case anyone was wondering, I'm having difficulties with logging into a website using a vbscript - it used to work. On my old laptop I'd log in on IE and check the log in automatically button; my script would then automatically be logged in. On this one, the script is always rejected and returns only the login page (and I can't figure out how to login with the script, I'm a bit of an amateur), and the only thing I can think of that might explain the difference is different cookie handling with IE8 - I gather session cookie privacy policy is quite a bit more broad than on IE9.

So yes, if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

Cheers in advance.
 
you should be able to remove IE9 (which would restore IE8) from installed updates.

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If I go to Control Panel, and then to Uninstall A Program, then go to Installed Updates IE9 is listed there. Unintalling it will revert IE back to IE8. Is that not an option?

***edit***

Looks like marc2003 had exactly the same idea :)
 
Well.. good news and bad news.

Good news is, your solution worked.. I'm now back to IE8, cheers.

Bad news is, it didn't fix anything and my script still doesn't work :(

I've got no idea why this stupid script's stopped working.. it used to be able to 'piggyback' off a logged-on web browser. There shouldn't be any policy differences between this laptop and the old one :confused:
 
Finally! Problem solved. Had to rewrite half the code since my previous many failed attempts at fixing it had turned it into a nightmare. Just changed the object thing from microsoft.xmlhttp to internetexplorer.application - it's not as clean as it was before, as it has to start up IE and run it invisibly in the background, but it'll do the job.

I tried resetting the settings to no avail before the big rewrite.

Cheers for your help, chuffed it's working again :D

Now to reinstall IE9, lol..
 
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