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June 28, 2001 12:00 AM

How do I install the Windows Desktop Update component directly from the Internet Explorer 5.0 setup process?

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A. Usually, you must first install Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE 4.0) with the Windows Desktop Update component, then upgrade to IE 5.0 or higher. However, you can perform the following steps to directly install the component from the IE 5.0 setup process:

  1. Run IE 5.0's setup file (ie5setup.exe).
  2. When IE 5.0's license dialog box appears, find iesetup.cif in one of the subdirectories of the Windows Temp directory.
  3. Open iesetup.cif with Notepad and locate in [IE4Shell_Win] (for Windows 98/95) or [IE4Shell_NTx86] (for Windows NT) "DisplayName=%MSIE4Shell%." Change UIVISIBLE=0 to UIVISIBLE=1, and save the file.
  4. Accept the license, then click CustomInstall.
  5. You can see the "Windows Desktop Update" component in the components list. Select it and any other components you need. Then click Continue.

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  • Anonymous User
    7 years ago
    Aug 28, 2005

    searching in google groups:

    "First you will need the IE4 setup files...

    If you never have installed IE4 in your Win95 system, extract the file
    ie4setup.inf from the file ie4setup.exe to the windows/inf folder. (use
    "extract ie4setup.exe ie4setup.inf")

    Now, from the ie5setup directory write the following command

    ie5setup.exe /C:"ie5wzd /e:IE4Shell_WIN/I:Y "

  • Anonymous User
    7 years ago
    Jan 19, 2005

    You can download IE4 from here http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/4.01_SP2

  • Anonymous User
    8 years ago
    Dec 11, 2004

    I am using Windows 95OSR 2 Spanish, and I can not install Windows Desktop Update, because a different language version. In Adition, IE5 was spanish version. I don't know what happened.

  • dpoach
    9 years ago
    Oct 18, 2003

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  • anuj
    9 years ago
    Feb 14, 2003

    Excellent tip!!! Proved very helpful indeed.

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