Right-click on the downloaded installer and select "Run Sandboxed" and then the sandbox you made in step 3. Alternatively, you can download them from the Browser Archive (Remember: Older versions than the currently (after step 2) installed one will not work) Go to Microsoft's IE-Page and choose the version you want from the list of old versions in the lower right.
At "Apperance", tick the checkbox "Show sandbox name in window title" to always know which IE-version's running. Now right-click it and open the settings. Name it according to the IE-version you want to put in it, for example "IE7". Open Sandboxie, open the "Sandbox"-menu and choose "Create New Sandbox". Now we need a Sandbox for the new IE-Version (for every IE-version except 6 you'll need a sepparate sandbox).
I don't know how to downgrade IE6 to IE5, if that's even possible, but I diddn't try it anyway - you might have success with that. If you have IE7 now, repeat the uninstalling until you have IE6. You can check the currently installed IE-version by clicking on the question mark in its menu and choosing "info". To do that, simply uninstall IE8 from the "Add/remove software"-menu in the control panel and reboot.
įor everything to work fine, you'll have to downgrade your IE-version to the oldest one you want to test with. Usually you'll need that for security, but it's perfectly fine for our case too. Sandboxie is a program to run other programs in a so-called sandbox. The latter works without issues, Microsoft even offers temporary VMs for IE, but it needs way too much disk space and having to always change the VMs will get on your nerves soon.īecause I liked neither of those solutions, I made my own with which I am able to run multiple, full-featured versions of IE on the same machine. Standalone versions are obviously not the right way. The former solution never really works - I tried many of those standalone versions and there were some problems that always showed up: The Javascript message dialog (and others) would not display ("Error opening dialog" or something alike) which makes Javascript testing night-impossible, and often times the "old" IE used the rendering engine or javascript engine of the new version (working png-transparency in IE6 is a dead giveaway). Either you use a so-called standalone version (a hack) or you use multiple virtual machines. Searching the Internet, you'll only find two possibilities to run multiple versions of Internet Explorer.
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