Why run Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 in standalone mode?
Maybe you are a web developer who wants to test his/her designs on IE7 but want to keep Internet Explorer 6 until Microsoft releases the final version. It’s basically a way of running IE7 and IE6 at the same time without having to overwrite the previous version. What does the program do? “IE7s.exe” will create a .exe.local file (if you’re interested, read Junfeng Zhang’s blog post for more information about the .local file). After that it will add values to more than a thousand registry keys in your Windows Registry. Internet Explorer 7 should start then. 10 seconds later the program will perform a cleanup, remove all the registry keys and close itself. It is OK to run multiple instances at once. What’s new? • Fixed many of the reported bugs in the IE7s.exe. Particularly, compatibility with non-US versions of Windows XP as well as Windows XP professional x64. • No need for “cleanup.exe”. • Added keys to support • Conditional CSS comments
