{"id":330,"date":"2006-07-13T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:02:13","slug":"ie7-beta-3-give-me-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/ie7-beta-3-give-me-a-break-330","title":{"rendered":"IE7 Beta 3 - Give me a break"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just wasted a night trying to install that IE7 Beta 3 rubbish on my home PC. I want to tweak my sites so they work okay in this CSS non<\/b>-compliant browser.<\/p>\n

I got:<\/p>\n

\n

Internet Explorer 7 could not be installed. You must restart your system to confirm that any changes to your system are undone.<\/p>\n

After restarting, follow the \"Internet Explorer Troubleshooting\" shortcut on your desktop to get more information.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I tried all 4 methods in the troubleshooting guide and none of them worked. Seems that<\/p>\n

\n

Something has caused the computer not to trust the Internet Explorer 7 installation package.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You bet - I don't trust it either. After 4 attempts at installation, I give up.<\/p>\n

Grrr. I hate IE.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> Miracles can happen. While doing something else, I disabled all the startup items that you really don't need (like Real Player and Adobe Reader and Java Runtime Environment's jusched.exe). A few days later, I tried to install IE7 Beta 3 again and this time it worked like a charm. I'm not sure whether the disabled startup items allowed the install, but I couldn't hink of any other changes that I had made.<\/p>\n

Let me know if your installation goes okay after disabling unnecessary startup items.<\/p>\n

See the 1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just wasted a night trying to install that IE7 Beta 3 rubbish on my home PC. I want to tweak my sites so they work okay in this CSS non-compliant browser. I got: Internet Explorer 7 could not be installed. You must restart your system to confirm that any changes to your system are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12108,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/12108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}