I grabbed this from another board. The poster said I could share if I wished.

Quote Originally Posted by Farquard
Yes, you read that right. It is possible to run IE7 without installing onto your system.

First you need to download a copy of IE7 Beta 1

Then use WINRAR to extract the files into a directory. I would suggest that you do so to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer 7

Next look through the directory until you find SHLWAPI.DLL rename this file to SHLWAPI.ORG

Now goto C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and locate the file wininet.dll and rename that to wininet.org

Copy wininet.dll from the C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer 7 and put it into the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory.

Now create a BLANK text file named IEXPLORE.exe.local and save it to the C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer 7 directory.

Now you can run IE7 by double clicking on the program in the C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer 7 directory.

Side note... by doing it this way, you do not change anything in the working of IE6 as well.