pre-installed IE8

Hi- I was hoping that someone can help with a question I can't seem to find
an answer to.

We have clients who recently purchased new Vista workstations that come with
a pre-installed version of IE8.

Due to compatibilty issues we need these clients to use IE7. Everything I've
read has to do with an upgrade to IE 8 so when you uninstall it will revert
back to the previous version but what will happen in this case when there is
not neccessarliy a previous version?

Thanks in advance!

If IE 8 is pre-installed, it can't be removed. Perhaps try Compatibility
View. Or perhaps IE 8 will work just fine...just change the user agent
string so your applications will 'think' it's something else.
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

33boston wrote:
> Hi- I was hoping that someone can help with a question I can't seem to find
> an answer to.
>
> We have clients who recently purchased new Vista workstations that come with
> a pre-installed version of IE8.
>
> Due to compatibilty issues we need these clients to use IE7. Everything I've
> read has to do with an upgrade to IE 8 so when you uninstall it will revert
> back to the previous version but what will happen in this case when there is
> not neccessarliy a previous version?
>
> Thanks in advance!

How to uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

Uninstalling IE8 in Vista will automatically restore the computer to IE7.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


33boston wrote:
> Hi- I was hoping that someone can help with a question I can't seem to
> find
> an answer to.
>
> We have clients who recently purchased new Vista workstations that come
> with
> a pre-installed version of IE8.
>
> Due to compatibilty issues we need these clients to use IE7. Everything
> I've
> read has to do with an upgrade to IE 8 so when you uninstall it will
> revert
> back to the previous version but what will happen in this case when there
> is
> not neccessarliy a previous version?
>
> Thanks in advance!

Wait...let us know what happened!
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

33boston wrote:
> Thanks for the help everyone , much appreciated.
>
> "Daniel Crichton" wrote:
>
>> I personally would disagree with Leonard - I'd be very surprised if MS
>> updated their OEM images with IE8 integrated rather than IE7, it's much
>> simpler to just provide a way for OEMs to pre-install IE8 on top of IE7, and
>> it appears that they do this via the OPK (OEM Preinstallation Kit).
>>
>> You can easily check this yourself - if Add/Remove Programs lets you
>> uninstall IE8 then it will revert to another version of IE, and as IE7 is
>> the only one Vista had previously that will be the version reverted to. If
>> there's no option to remove IE8, then your question is moot anyway.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> 33boston wrote on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:28:02 -0700:
>>
>>> So is there not a current Vista build that has IE8 intergrated?
>>> If that's the case then it must be that IE 8 was installed and that
>>> would mean an uninstall as normal which would solve my problem.
>>
>>> "Daniel Crichton" wrote:
>> >> 33boston wrote on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:07:30 -0700:
>>
>> >>> Hi- I was hoping that someone can help with a question I can't seem
>> >>> to find an answer to.
>>
>> >>> We have clients who recently purchased new Vista workstations that
>> >>> come with a pre-installed version of IE8.
>>
>> >>> Due to compatibilty issues we need these clients to use IE7.
>> >>> Everything
>> >>> I've read has to do with an upgrade to IE 8 so when you uninstall
>> >>> it will revert back to the previous version but what will happen in
>> >>> this case when there is not neccessarliy a previous version?
>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> >> You need to define pre-installed - are they Vista installs that have
>> >> then had IE8 installed (and so is removeable as normal), or are they
>> >> Vista builds with IE8 integrated already instead of IE7 (which
>> >> sounds unlikely because that would require a new Vista build).
>>
>> >> If IE8 is in Add/Remove Programs then it's uninstallable and will
>> >> revert to
>> >> IE7 (Vista never shipped with IE6, so IE7 is the only version it will
>> >> revert to).
>>
>> >> --
>> >> Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>