[AccessD] IE 5.5 download

Henry Simpson hsimpson88 at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 19 16:43:22 CST 2003


IE 5.5 is no longer available from Microsoft as a download yet I have a 
client in the position of it becoming a minimum system requirement to access 
a new government registry formerly only accessible with Netscape.  
Regrettably the client boxes run Win 3.11 and Win 95 and neither OS meets 
the IE 6 minimum of Win 98.  It seems there is a limitless supply of throw 
away computers and Win 95 licenses that will forever meet the client's needs 
and taste for Word Perfect 5.

The Win 95 machines currently run IE 5.00.2314.1003 and I'm curious whether 
5.5 can run on a 95 box and if there is any where a version can be obtained. 
  The registries will cease hosting the version that supports Netscape as of 
December 1, 2003.

By the way, the machines are rock, ok - sandstone, solid, provided I don't 
run Word, WordPerfect, Netscape and IE concurrently (Netscape tends to crash 
when all are loaded at once) and although there are obvious memory leaks in 
the OS (if the primary peer server isn't rebooted every 3 days, resources go 
below 30% and worse after a Netscape crash, so it is rebooted every 
morning).  The Win 95 machines run an Access 2K FE and the Win 3 machines 
use Access 2.  The fastest machine here runs a 233 AMD chip with 64 megs.  
I'm almost shocked at how well it all works.

Hen

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