1. Jonathan at 7:28am on November 3, 2006

Hmm. I've just tried what you suggest and it gives me a browser that looks like IE6, but it says in the About that it's IE7.

2. Jesse Skinner at 12:00pm on November 3, 2006

Although you're using the IE6 rendering engine (which is good enough to see how web sites will look and act in IE6), some of the other features are tied more tightly to the operating system.. so when you click About, it asks Windows to display the current version (IE7).

You may notice other freaky differences for very complex sites, but for regular web pages it's a pretty good option.

3. Bob at 5:38pm on December 4, 2006

Well, I do many very complex websites. I need to be able to see exactly what the site will look like in all available browsers.

but as usual, MS does the usual, why would we expect more? The world does revolve around MS, does it not?

4. scot at 12:32pm on January 18, 2007

Is it me, or is the notion of tying any aspect of page rendering to ANYTHING outside the browser (other than plug-ins, obviously) a bad idea? I mean, you can't expect the whole world to upgrade together... and it isn't fair to require developers to have a different computer for every browser they test in.

(I can hear it now: "no one said the world was fair.")

5. Clive at 12:04pm on February 13, 2007

Also - Xajax does not work on IE6 standalone.

6. Nando at 2:57pm on April 20, 2007

Hey man,

Thanks a lot for suggesting this! It works like a charm.

I'm using this to test CSS compatibility shiz...

Take care, dude!

7. Marc at 7:10am on December 19, 2007

For tiny and unimportant sites seems like an acceptable solution.

But if you can't be 100% sure it will show the same in non stand-alone IE6, then I'd rather have two separate machines. Half-way solutions are not real solutions, that's my point of view.

8. Jay at 12:29am on March 19, 2008

Hi there,

I downloaded IE6 but cannot log into any website as it does not allow cookies to be saved. I have disabled the cookie block but it seems to always override my settings. I was wondering if anyone else has come across this issue. It happens with loging into gmail for e.g.

Cheers!

9. lewis litanzios at 8:25am on March 20, 2008

i'm pretty sure this method won't work. IE is so tightly knitted to the registry that it might look like ie6 on the outside but on the inside it renders as IE7. i'm gonna format today and try it again nevertheless.

i scaled the net for an update and posted on this issue in last september if anyone finds it equally as useful:http://tinyurl.com/36zu6g

if anyone else knows of a/another full proof method i'd love to hear it.

10. Jilia at 7:17am on May 2, 2008

This solution is useless... No cookies...

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