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As of 17.00 hours today (CEST), I’m unemployed. I’m no longer a taxi driver, which was my job for the past five years or so. So now what?

Well, some well earned vacation, that’s what! It’ll be a non-payed vacation, that’s a minor downside. On the other hand, I’ve got some money saved up sitting at the bank. And since I’m kind of an anti-materialistic person, I don’t actually bother living on it until it runs out.

When it does, I’ll probably apply for a job as truck driver. I don’t have a trucker’s license yet, but the demand for truckers is currently so high, that companies are happy to pay for my training and the license itself. I’ll probably even be able to negotiate some salary during the training.

If you’re like me, you probably hate the nasty look MSIE has gotten with version 7, especially when using Windows’ classic look.

Of course one could simply say “then don’t use it”, but unfortunately, somtimes I have no choice. If you agree to design a site for someone else, it should simply work, even in MSIE. So it needs testing in that browser (if you can call it a browser ).

So, I have to use MSIE 7, and I absolutely loathe its user interface. Then there was Sean Rozekrans, who pointed out that MSIE 7 can be made to look like MSIE 6. Like a blessing form heaven. Here’s proof:

MSIE 7 disguised as MSIE 6

The only drawback is the lack of tabs this way. But that’s not really something I miss, because if I have MSIE open, there’s only the page I’m testing, nothing else.

So how can you make this miracle happen for your self? Quite simple actually, just make a shortcut to C:\WINDOWS\ie7\iexplore.exe (note that that directory is hidden). It might be necessary to create an empty file named iexplore.exe.local in that same directory to make this work, but for me it wasn’t.