Make IE7 report as IE6 1

[fluteplr]

IE7 Beta 3

Does anyone know how to make IE7 report itself to a website as IE6?

It seems to report as Mozilla 4 which one website I have to use is reading as IE4 and then refusing to work saying it need to be IE6.

I hate to have to go back to IE6 for this one stupid site. Also they are a corp. site so they are not going to change their page just for me.

Thanks.

 

[bcastner]

User Agent String is the term for this.

Looks like this currently:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)

You can change this easily. Copy the below into notepad and save as IE_new_agent_string.reg :

========= Copy/paste below this line
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
"Version"="MSIE 6.0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform]
"SV1"=-

========== end copy/paste above this line

You can easily undo the change by saving and merging the following IE7Undo.reg.

========== begin copy/paste below this line
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
"Version"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform]
"SV1"=""

========= end copy/paste above this line

 

[fluteplr]

Worked perfectly. Thank you.

 

[smah]

And here's a utility that does it easily (as well as a couple other handy things).

http://dundats.mvps.org/Internet/InternetExplr/IE_tools.htm

 

[bcastner]

smah,

It does not do the user agent string.

 

[smah]

I have to disagree Bill, check the screenshot on the link above or give it a try.

 

[bcastner]

Smah,

You are correct. My apologies.

Bill