Installing old IE browsers

Hi,

I'm running Windows SE Ver 4.10.2222A with IE 5.00 and want to install older versions of IE (like 3 and 4) to test the web pages I'm writing. I downloaded the older versions but Windows wouldn't let me install them. I uninstalled IE5 and tried again - but still it won't let me.

Any advice?

Suggest that you try installing the older versions on separate partitions if you have them.

Thanks. Do you happen to know of any good freeware partition creators/managers which will let me add partitions without losing what's already on my HD? I'm using FAT32 - do think the older browsers will be happy with this?

Is almost impossible install IE 3.0 and IE 5.0 togheter.

Create a new partition is a very radical solution, because you must have two copies of the operating system (one with IE 5.0 and the other with IE 3.0).

You can install IE 3.0 for Windows 3.1 with not very problems, and it works fine. The only inconvenience is that it does'nt work well with large filenames, and if you use this kind of names for images:

Home_Nav_Common.gif
Home_Nav_FAQ.gif
Home_Nav_Presentation.gif

it will show the same Image in all three cases.

Umm. Sounds like it's going to take up quite a bit of my HD creating the new partition with Windows + IE3. When you say you can install IE3 for Windows 3.1 with no problems, do you mean you can install it under Windows 98 SE, or do you need Windows 3.1 as the OS?

Any other suggestions about how to get IE4 and 5 to live together. I uninstalled IE5 from Windows 98 SE using 98lite and managed to install IE4. But as soon as I reinstalled IE5, Windows wiped IE4!!

You can Install under W98. The installation program will probably show a message saying that there is a version of IE3 for W95. Ignore it and continue with the installation.

Just spent the morning trying to install another installation of Windows 98 SE to a new partition I created with Ransih Partition Manager (http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/) (good program). Couldn't get it to work! Ended up almost wiping my current installation of Windows 98 on my main partition - only got it back by copying my old system files over the new ones the installation created!! Few worring moments there! Anyway - any suggestions as to how to do the install onto the secondary partition (D without messing up the one on the primary partition (C ?

Try VMWare from www.vmware.com
This allows you to run a second, third, fourth OS on the same PC with NO repartitioning whatsoever!

I use it with Windows 3.11 in a separate "Virtual Machine", in order to view my pages under IE3.

Try it.
Note. Your PC has to be running NT 4, Windows 2000 or Linux.

Here's an old ALA on this very topic.
http://www.alistapart.com/archive/19990401_050145.html

Ahh.. those were the days.

Are there any really good utilities out there that simulate a view from various browser versions?

I've only seen Browserola (http://www.codo.com/browserola/), but it doesn't seem very up to date and I'm not really even sure if I trust the simulation it offers. Is anyone else familiar with this product or any others I can use.