Downgrade IE 11 to IE 8

Lakshmana

I have answer which is working in the test laptop but in user laptop access denied is shown.The user has admin access

Dashrender

Are you still trying to uninstall IE 11 from Windows 8? Fine, you can sorta do that - all you're doing it pulling the IE exe out of the system basically. But that won't allow you to install IE 8 on that computer.

Lakshmana

The error after giving the above mentioned command in user laptop
:

PkgMgr.exe has been deprecated. Please update your scripts to DISM.exe to install, uninstall, configure, and update features and packages for windows.

see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=195329 for more information,

operation failed with 0x80070307

scottalanmiller

You got IE8 installed on your test machine?

Lakshmana

Yes the IE8 is installed in the test machine

Lakshmana

@Dashrender I am trying to install the IE 8 in Windows 8.My senior is saying that IE8 will able to install in Windows 8.So only trying on it??

Dashrender

@Lakshmana said:

Yes the IE8 is installed in the test machine

What OS is your test machine?

Lakshmana

Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

LOL, well that's where IE8 is from. Not much of a test.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Lakshmana said:

Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

LOL, well that's where IE8 is from. Not much of a test.

Exactly - your test is completely invalid. IE 8 came with Windows 7. Meaning you can install IE 8 on Windows 8. You can not install IE 8 on Windows 8.

Lakshmana

The windows 8 machine is tried with uninstalling by regedit,host entry,system32 any other method

Dashrender

You're not understanding - you can't install IE 8 directly on Windows 8 or 8.1 it can't be done.

You do have a few choices.

As I mentioned before you should try compatibility mode first - google it, there are tons of options.

additionally, you could install VirtualBox and install Windows 7 inside that, and the default that it comes with is IE 8 - and you're done.

of course legally, you'll need to purchase another Windows license to do this.

Lakshmana

But the user needs here to install in it for his URL access.He is informing us to do that now

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

The windows 8 machine is tried with uninstalling by regedit,host entry,system32 any other method

Uninstalling isn't the issue. It's installing IE8 that is the hard part.

tonyshowoff

This is essentially what we did for testing purposes for our web sites:

http://www.howtogeek.com/102261/how-to-run-internet-explorer-7-8-and-9-at-the-same-time-using-virtual-machines/

We used to use the multiple IE installer, but AFAIK that only goes up to IE6 or 7. This may work, though it's clunky as heck and unless it's an IT-centred user, they'll probably hate it in some way.