Make MSIE 7 look like MSIE 6
Monday, June 25th, 2007
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:
MSIE7 disguised as MSIE6
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.