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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @Lakshmana
      last edited by

      @Lakshmana said:

      Yes the IE8 is installed in the test machine

      What OS is your test machine?

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      • LakshmanaL
        Lakshmana
        last edited by

        Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
          last edited by

          @Lakshmana said:

          Sorry the test machine with the Windows 7 OS

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

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
            last edited by 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.

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            • LakshmanaL
              Lakshmana
              last edited by

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

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender
                last edited by

                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.

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                • LakshmanaL
                  Lakshmana
                  last edited by

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

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                    last edited by

                    @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.

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                    • tonyshowoffT
                      tonyshowoff
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                      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.

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                      • LakshmanaL
                        Lakshmana
                        last edited by

                        The user is convinced to downgrade Windows 8 to Win7 machine.Will see what happens tommorrow???

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                          last edited by

                          @Lakshmana said:

                          The user is convinced to downgrade Windows 8 to Win7 machine.Will see what happens tommorrow???

                          Who told him that that was even an option?

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                          • tonyshowoffT
                            tonyshowoff @Lakshmana
                            last edited by

                            @Lakshmana said:

                            The user is convinced to downgrade Windows 8 to Win7 machine.Will see what happens tommorrow???

                            😑

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                            • LakshmanaL
                              Lakshmana @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller Our Senior said to do that.But not confirmed the result?

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
                                last edited by

                                @Lakshmana said:

                                @scottalanmiller Our Senior said to do that.But not confirmed the result?

                                My guess is that he just made something up. But we will see.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender
                                  last edited by

                                  LOL - so you're going to reduce his whole security profile and roll him back to Windows 7 to solve a problem for one website.

                                  Yeah that seams like a smart thing to do /sarcasm

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                                  • art_of_shredA
                                    art_of_shred Banned
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                                    /facepalm

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