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- macboy, on 10/12/2007, -28/+104Ok. this is by far the best option i've seen yet:
1) Open internet explorer 6
2) Go to http://getfirefox.com/ and download and install the software
3) There is no step three
4) ...
5) Profit! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35Not everyone has a website to "test". Are you one of those egomaniacs with a worthless blog?
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Because sometimes according to the WGA utility, "genuine" and "legally acquired, paid for, and used" are very different things.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23I have one, but I feel the scorn that WGA has been. While I personally never had problems with it, a multitude of people have. It would be great to do this w/o WGA.
I have been using IE7 since beta1 because I just despised IE6. Upgrades should be manditory for most home users. - pjack91, on 10/12/2007, -20/+42Use Firefox or Opera.
- hello2usir, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20Based on just the avatar alone I'd venture to guess Yes.
- tkcom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17MS shot themselves in the foot with WGA... lucky that they have fanboys coming to the rescue.
- neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18No need for mirrors...
1. Download Internet Explorer 7.0 from the Microsoft site. You have to choose Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) as your operating system. Remember you can’t install IE 7.0 if service pack 2.0 is not installed in your operating system.
2. Extract the downloaded Internet Explorer setup file (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe) using WinRAR to a directory (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu).
3. Download the patched iecustom.dll and then copy-paste it to the update folder (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enuupdate) and click yes when asked to overwrite.
4. Run ‘update.exe’ in the update folder (not iesetup.exe!!!). At the end, you have to choose ‘exit/finish without restart’ option to finish the running process of the exe file.
5. Download normaliz.dll and then copy-paste it to “c:windowssystem32” directory (in order to prevent problems with the file not being found after the installation). And then reboot/restart your pc.
6. After rebooting your pc, you may face a problem with a file called normaliz.dll that can not be found by explorer.exe. If you’re having this problem, you will find your desktop blank.(If you are not facing this problem then just go to step 7) In order to fix this problem, you have to do the following things one by one:
1. Press ctrl-alt-del to go to the task manager.
2. Go to “File -> Run” in the task manager.
3. Type: ‘cmd’ and push enter. The command prompt window will appear.
4. Type:
‘copy c:normaliz.dll c:windowssystem32normaliz.dll’
- in the command prompt window and push enter.
5. Reboot your pc and yahoo!!! now you can see your desktop contents!!!.
7. Now you have to run ‘xmllitesetup.exe’ in the update folder.
8. Then reboot your pc again, run Internet Explorer…and you are done!!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not that I'm defending IE or anything but, I recently had to format a laptop that came pre-bundled with XP. When I tried to validate the key with WGA, it told me my software (that I actually paid for) was "not genuine".
There are plenty of us who are being forced to RE-purchase XP for stuff like this thanks to WGA not because we're "theives", so ***** off. - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15I wonder if somebody could write a patched installer that could do all these things automatically...
- lazyrussian, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19you must be using internet explorer.
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3542577/Microsoft__Internet_Explorer_7.0_Final_For_Windows_XP_SP2
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14and you are still online?? lololol
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10get non blacklisted student key
never worry about wga again. - Ai3d, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Instead of doing ALL that just change the serial to a legal one by using http://www.uploading.com/files/3U9X8JR0/ChangeWinXPSerial.rar.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4First of all, I said they are forcing us to re-purchase the software, not that I actually did it. There's no way in hell I'm repaying Microsoft $99 for another XP disc.
I did contact the laptop manufacturer and they told me to talk to MS. I went to their support line and they basically told me I was SOL. They couldn't even give me a discount for it either. Microsoft is forcing people to crack WGA because of stuff like this.
Google around and you'll see there are plenty of people who had legitimate copies not validate and the manufacturers are simply referrring them to MS. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5nofxjunkee:
http://browsershots.org/ - Gzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Worked.
- Virion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It wouldn't be too hard, and normaliz.dll comes in one of two additional installers (idndl.exe and nlsdl.exe), in fact I'm not really sure why they even tell you to download it instead of using the rest of the packaged installation (those two are definately not WGA reliant.) I've seen several other guides that tell you you can use those exes instead, and I've even done so without any issues.
- ZOPTIKEREN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4But why even waste your time to bypass WGA and install IE7 when there is better alternatives out there that doesn't need to be 'pacthed' and doesn't cost anything?
- darkixion, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I would barely be bothered to install IE7 without any messing around with bypassing authentication checks, let alone with.
So let's get this straight: IE7 has arrived very late with virtually all it's new features mimicking existing ones of other browsers, many of its extentions cost money, many others are trial without mentioning it before you download it, the extentions are exe files without access to source code and Microsoft require Windows authentication checks to get it on your machine, *and* it's only available on Windows. Why should this popular again? - beermad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What I'm waiting for is how to install IE 7 under WINE.
It's not that I have any great desire to use IE7, but I need to know how it's going to ***** up the rendering of my stylesheets even though they conform to W3C standards... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3L0L I noticed there is a new internet explorer event log :D I wondering whats for.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wht a crap way. Just use this reg file. Run it before installing, and then you can install anything (wmp. ie etc).
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=qBXWozFwoxM= - Toupee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Don't mean to steal anyone's thunder here, but I thought it should be posted higher up on the page: sharjeelsayed notes that this article is pretty much a copy of this page:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/19/bypass-and-crack-internet-explorer-7-ie7-final-installation-genuine-windows-validation/
However, THAT page has a lot more information and some other ways to go about it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This guy blatantly copy pasted from this original article.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/19/bypass-and-crack-internet-explorer-7-ie7-final-installation-genuine-windows-validation/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just use a real volume license key instead of some dumb ass generated one.
Thats all I do. - Arbus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I've had firefox and opera installed for quite awhile, and I've used them both, but I still end up using IE6. I don't care about tabbed browsing, and I didn't find any of the other features useful enough to warrant switching to a browser with a slower load time, and a more annoyingly enthusiastic userbase.
I don't intend to use IE7 either. Maybe I will when they stop patching the security holes in IE6. - Sammy20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After installing IE7 using this method, I now have ctfmon.exe loaded on every startup, and it cannot be disabled. This sucks.
I'm sticking with Firefox 2.0, and Opera 9.1. Both free, and have lots of features, and don't have such pain in the ass installers like *****. - bangmalley, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1IE is making me angry. crash,crash,crash.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why the ***** would anyone (end user, not developer) want to install IE7 anyway? If I had IE7 I'd be looking at ways to uninstall it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I extracted the ie setup, but just pasted the the "ie custom" dll, and just ran setup, worked fine, my tabs didnt show, so i had to run the other file in the setup *forgets the name* starts with an x, and it corrected the tabs, bypassed wga
- dogshaft, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Correction... only available on Windows XP and newer. They couldn't be bothered to port it to Windows 2000, although it's basically the same thing as XP. They could care less about all the business users on Win2K since they should be upgrading to Vista so they can waste time looking at a 3D GUI (or not).
- DigDiggler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Actually- when i ran the ie7 installer and it asked to go on the web to validate, i just blocked the site it wanted to use with ZoneAlarm- the installer paused for a min, then it let me install. Rebooted afterwards and have been using ie7 for the last few days with no probs.
What's with all those useless and complicated steps when a simple firewall block does the trick? (Mind you, i'm referring to the actual install of ie7- i am not referring to trying to do win updates *using* ie7) - CoolWind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3What if you are using XP Corporate to avoid activation hassles?
- Solan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1By far the easiest way to instal IE is by merging the reg file mentioned by flyinglikeakite above. Just a tiny 3 kb file and you are done....then install anything you want!!! Easy as hell.
This has been confirmed to be working 100%.
Thanks flyinglikeakite for posting. - BuckyBit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...If you’re having [...] problem, you will find your desktop blank." Hilarious. That-s what I call engineering skills. He-ll get some visit from MS-Men-in-Black soon, anyways.
- Toupee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks, but sharjeelsayed originally posted it. I just wanted to make sure more people would see it.
- ignorantcow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Every browser has their weak/strong points. Opera isn't good enough to be considered better than the all of 'em.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How can I remove anti-aliasing in IE7 ?
- phekylmadder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS!!!!!!
When I first went to windows.crack-cd.com Zone Alarm warned me it was a spy website (xmirror.us) and blocked that comm.
I didn't think much of it and downloaded Microsoft_Windows_XP_Corporate_Key_Changer_(WWW.CRACK-CD.COM).zip
anyway.
the zip file came packaged with win32.inservice.bj (ID'd by ZA Suite)
http://vic.zonelabs.com/tmpl/body/CA/virusDetails.jsp?VId=41770
Double checked with Kaspersky online scanner, which sure enough, ID'd it as Win32.INService.gen
Be careful of anything you download from this site and make sure your AV is up to date.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - CoolWind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The method explained in this article worked for me, but the other methods did not. Dugg!
- intekhab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you can try out this one too:
http://www.dotcomunderground.com/blogs/2006/10/20/install-internet-explorer-7-final-bypassing-wga-validation/ - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now if someone could just tell me how to make IE7 and IE6 coexist on the same machine, I'd be much happier.
And before you ask, I'm a web developer, so I NEED to be able to do this. - chaitany1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Among all of these, the real good advice is of Toupee. That works for me. Really. Please Follow this link and you will be awarded with IE 7 which is Gr8!!
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/19/bypass-and-crack-internet-explorer-7-ie7-final-installation-genuine-windows-validation/ - blind486, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hate it when people says "i don't need IE7!" when your a developer or a designer in the web. you got to have a website that is compliant to all browsers. if only firefox is the standard browser. nevertheless microsoft eats money anyway.
- p05ta1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0psychotomato I get the same issue.
starts to install then backs out and reboot.
is there some workaround for "access denied". - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1or just use WGA ***** :)
http://*****.hostingdb.info - Sil369, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tools > Internet Options > Advanced >
Scroll down to the "Multimedia" part near the bottom, and you will see "Use ClearType".
Ya, better w/o ClearType I think - reminds me of using a Mac with it on. -
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