Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Here’s one way to get IE8 if you get/have/are stuck with Windows 7 E – The batch file to C# to exe to download approach

Michael's Blog - How to download Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 E without any Web browser?

“Windows 7 RTM will be available in the next days and for all European users there will be no Internet Explorer 8. I’m not sure if there will be an option to install Internet Explorer from the setup DVD or if we can simple add this as a Windows feature in control panel.

Following command line batch file will download Internet Explorer 8 setup:

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I found this approach perversely entertaining and interesting.

Sure there’s FTP and PowerShell approaches but there was something about using a batch file to echo out a c# program, then the command line compiler and then running it that was just to interesting to not mention.

Now what we really need is a batch file to generate the batch file to generate the C# to compile into the application to download IE… ;)

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