Test Internet Explorer 7 Beta without installing it

If you are interested in taking a look at the new internet explorer 7 beta without installing it at all this procedure comes in handy. First you will have to download the newest beta from the microsoft homepage and use winrar to extract the contents of the exe file to a location on your hard drive.

Create a file called ie7.bat and copy the code below into it. After that run ie7.bat and ie7 will start and you have every chance to test it on your system. Make sure you don´t close the dos box, if you do it will close ie7 as well.

@ECHO OFF
TITLE IE7 Launcher 1.4

ECHO IE7 STANDALONE LAUNCHER 1.4
ECHO Updated for IE7 Beta 2 Preview
ECHO.
ECHO Do not close this window or it will not clean up after itself properly.
ECHO You can pass a URL into this batch file, like this:
ECHO ie7.bat www.microsoft.com
ECHO.
ECHO More info here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/12/28/434132.aspx
ECHO.
ECHO When you close IE7, this will remove the registry key and shut itself down.
ECHO.
ECHO Setting up IE7 for standalone mode...
PUSHD %~dp0

ECHO Removing IE7 registry key and set the version vector to "7.0000".
> %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO REGEDIT4
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{C90250F3-4D7D-4991-9B69-A5C5BC1C2AE6}]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInterface{000214E5-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersion Vector]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO "IE"="7.0000"
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
:: Merge the REG file to delete the IE7 standalone entry
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

REN SHLWAPI.DLL SHLWAPI.DLL.BAK
TYPE NUL > IEXPLORE.exe.local
ECHO Running IE7...
iexplore.exe "%1"

:: Merge the REG file to delete the IE7 standalone entry
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg
:: Delete the temporary REG file
DEL %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

ECHO Removing IE7 standalone files...
REN SHLWAPI.DLL.BAK SHLWAPI.DLL
DEL IEXPLORE.exe.local

:: Set the old version vector "6.0000".
> %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO REGEDIT4
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersion Vector]
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO "IE"="6.0000"
>>%TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg ECHO.
REGEDIT /S %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg
DEL %TEMP%.IE7Fix.reg

POPD
ECHO Complete, closing...

source: googlesystem