IE7 to get pushed

Microsoft also provides a toolkit to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7.

Is there a reliable method available yet for running IE7, 6 & 5 together?

At the moment, I have ie 7 beta 3 installed (I couldn't find how to make this version work as a standalone copy), standalone copies of ie 6, ie 5.5 and ie 5.0 with modified BROWSELC.DLL to display the version, and I removed the key IE in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector\
No problem, except with Automatic Windows Update : I had to unistall IE 7, let windows install security fixes and reinstal IE 7.

Using a standalone beta 3 may be safer if you don't disable Automatic Updates
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone

I found these standalone versions of IE, and had version six running with the first beta of seven. http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit They go way back.

is it worth to update? I use FF right now and rather use FF because i simply hate IE and all its problems even though I make my clients pages compatible with IE also, but my husband uses IE should I update or wait or leave it at IE 6?

You should definitely have both IE6 & 7 to test your pages in. Whether you disable IE7 from being installed via automatic update and run it as a standalone or update to IE7 and run IE6 as a standalone is up to you.
A lot of professional developers advocate running each version of IE in it's native OS environment rather than as a standalone. This means either running additional boxes or using something like Virtual PC (or Parallels on a Mac).

ok sounds good to me. think ill update.. thanks

I found these standalone versions of IE, and had version six running with the first beta of seven. http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit They go way back.

Is it just a case of unzipping one of the standalone versions to its own folder and then running it from there? or is there anything I need to add/delete/modify before running it?

ATM I think I had better still have IE6 now that I have installed IE7.

A little bit more than unzipping :
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/multiIE.html

Thanks, I've installed ie6 and ie5.5 using that and they work ok, but ie7 now dosn't launch from it's icon, although if I have firefox already running I can launch it from the IETab icon on the bottom bar.

Any ideas?

Try ie 7 standalone version :
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
It should work.
In the folder created you will find a subfolder : update with update.exe.
Execute update.exe to reinstall ie 7.
Rename Vector Version key in the registry.

That is an option, but I found that just re-installing IE7 fixed it. I took it for granted that it was something else, what a pratt :-0

Cheers anyway.