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Download Full Internet Explorer 6 SP1 Standalone Installer
Filed in: Microsoft, Tips n Tricks — April 2nd, 2005
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 use live installation method. The installation software will connect to the Microsoft server and download required files. You need to stay online during the whole installation. It does not leave installation files* after setup completed.
Is there any way to download the setup files only but not install it?
Yes, you can actually download Internet Explorer 6 SP1 setup files for later installation (or install on other PC).
Steps:
- Download Internet Explorer 6 SP1 setup file (480KB), and save in a folder where you want to keep the whole setup files. Here I use »
c:\\download - Click Start > Run… , enter the following command line in the field provided.
c:\\download\\ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d:1 /s:""#E" - The IE setup will launch. After accept the agreement, you are provided the Download Options as follows.
Here you can choose where do you want to store the setup files and download setup files for which Windows version.
- Click Next button and it will start download the setup files, without install. Done!
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My two cents
After cleaning the spywares/adwares of my office PCs, I usually will do the Windows Update as well. Since most of them are Windows9x running IE5, it will took long time to download IE6 for each PC… By saving setup files in my PC, I just need to access the files through LAN and setup their IE6. 
P/S: Though using broadband Internet connection, but downloading the same files (12MB) for each PC is definately not fun.
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June 2nd, 2005 at 4:24 pm
Thank you for your information. It really helped me.
- Kiran
Kathmandu, Nepal
June 9th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Thanks for usefull help. I got it to install in my company without internet.
June 10th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
require ie 6.0 + sp2
June 10th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
@Ani: what do you mean? I don’t see download IE installer require IE6 or SP2.
June 12th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
Nice tip, tank u
June 30th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
Hi,
Kudos to you for this.
Need to get IE6 onto a computer that only has dialup.
Why can’t MS provide a link to let you get the whole thing?
Thanks again.
JEFFREY
July 21st, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Wonderful!
Thanks man, I was always wondering about a stand alone IE6 installer.
August 29th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
Its a really cool tip. Keep up the good work. It surely will help people like me. you can also find a similar text at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257249
September 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
I have a dilemma.
Where I am, the only computer that has internet access is a mac. I want to download the latest version of IE for my PC that is offline to test some web sites that I am creating.
Any suggestions? This doesnt work for me, since I cannot run the installer on the mac…
I need the whole stand alone version to download on the mac and transfer and run on the PC.
September 25th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
For Mac user, the latest IE version you can get is IE 5 fo Mac. Microsoft stopped the IE development for Mac.
September 25th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
Thanks very much! This is really helpful!
October 6th, 2005 at 5:38 am
Great Stuff… Had to install IE6 on an offline PC.. Nightmare that you solved ..Thanks
October 6th, 2005 at 6:37 pm
needed IE6 to run my bookkeeping program but do not ever want to connect that computer to the net. you made it possible, thanks mate. makes me wonder why Microsoft plays this game, control?
October 7th, 2005 at 5:39 pm
Cool! Thanks for the info. =) enweiz how did you get this?
VertigoMG
\m/C(o_O)?
October 11th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
As the others have said — you rock.
Thanks for posting this procedure. I was able to download IE6 on an ISDN at work, then install it to a pc without the torture of dial-up.
October 12th, 2005 at 12:13 am
thank you very much
very helpful
October 24th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
Thanks! Really useful tip!
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:02 pm
thank you very much. really it’s a usefull tip…! i was soo worry about this. thank you very much..
November 3rd, 2005 at 12:06 am
is there any method to download winxp service pack 1/2 standalone installer??
November 9th, 2005 at 4:27 am
Live saver you are
November 10th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
Thanks man. It really helped me a lot. great work.
November 21st, 2005 at 5:34 am
Excellent, this was exactly what I needed. Thanks!
November 29th, 2005 at 2:54 am
Thank you. I had a client with dial up that needs IE6 for Microsoft Antispyware. You saved me 2 hours.
December 1st, 2005 at 8:23 am
thank you for posting this usefull information… are you in Malay ?
December 11th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
many many thanks for the tip. really it is faboulous.
December 28th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
Hi, LiewCF,
Windows XP default not allow to re-install IE, Any idea to re-install it? for after anti the spyware, IE become very strange. Please advice.
And thanks for your hints to download the IE package.
December 28th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Sopio: there is a instruction to reinstall Internet Explorer on Windows XP at Microsoft Knowledgebase.
January 17th, 2006 at 8:47 am
Thank you for your tip! After a lot of frustration at trying to install a wireless card that required IE 5.5 or above (what genius at linksys thought of requiring that when you are trying to network a computer that was offline), I tried your advice and it worked. Thank you!
January 18th, 2006 at 4:59 am
the direct command did not workek (error messages on windows XP) so
I was able to download in parts.
First run in the download directory (I did it via the MSDOS window)
ie6setup /C
Thuis will bring the first files, including ie6wzd.
The run
ie6wzd /d:1
which will bring the rest of the installation files.
the option /s#E made it fail (what is this option by the way??)
February 1st, 2006 at 8:30 pm
coool man….thanx
February 2nd, 2006 at 1:51 pm
You the MAN!!
February 6th, 2006 at 2:13 am
Thank you very much… I needed to install SBS 2000, and the anti-virus needs the IE5.5 (it comes with IE5.0). First time i tried to windows update before install anti-virus!!!! I imediatly got a lot of virus…
The only solution is installing IE 6.0, then anti-virus, and then windows update.
THANKs
February 24th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Realmente funciona.
Dica 100% funcional…
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:52 am
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March 10th, 2006 at 4:15 am
Genius mate
March 11th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Really helpful tip
Please continue doing such good work
have a great day
March 21st, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Installed IE7, then attempted to install IE6 as a standalone - no luck!
I guess I’ll have to try and extract from the cab files.
A
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:12 am
Since u installed newer IE7, Windows won’t allow you to downgrade to IE6. Try to uninstall IE7 first before install IE6.
April 9th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Thanks for the info, it works fine. However I still have a problem: this instruction downloads the English IE6. I would need another language (Hungarian). Could you please help me how to download it? I tried to change the language in the setup file, but after entering the command line command it still downloaded the English version… Would appreciate your help.
Have a nice day.
April 10th, 2006 at 5:28 am
dimi, your post was really helpful, i had troubles on xp and did the same you did, AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY. thanks a lot to you and LcF all of your comments were really useful!!! This forum is te best ever
April 19th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
thanks, this was for my GF
May 13th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Thanks alot! This was really helpfull.
I had to download IE although I already have FireFox, since MSN messenger doesn’t work withought it.
May 25th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Thanks.
June 1st, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Thanks a lot. Hope to see more useful tips from u.
June 8th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
is there anyway someone can email me the setup files for ie6 for windows nt? i am at work, need the files and cant do this acuse im not admin.
June 9th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Thanks, the information was very helpful. What I would like to know is how do you learn all this stuff. I guess it’s just because you are more persistent than I.
June 11th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Thank you because I have a Windows 2000 Adv. Server Disk but now
I am planning to integrate all security, freeware, software, and regular updates to my operating system cd.
That way I won’t have to worry about doing all this rebooting, downloading, and installing all these updates, security updates, and programs.
Also I won’t ever have to keep validating my windows operating system over and over again because I integrating the downloads. They need a special program where if you validate your OS on your MSN account just sign in and no re-validationg.
My server will be secure the minute I use my Operating System. No more worrying about security. I will just install, set up my server, and forget.
Peace of mind!:)
June 17th, 2006 at 3:19 am
Thanks for making available how to download the IE6 SP1 install pgm.
Raven
November 5th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Thanks a lot ,
it really helped me a lot,
November 8th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
This is really nice thank you
November 29th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
NICE TIP MAN….THANKS A LOT
February 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
thanks a lot …….
February 17th, 2007 at 8:14 am
it didnt work, gave a syntax error (command line sysntax error). this coz i’ve got ie7 on a xp system me thinks.
but i need it for a friend who has a super slow internet connection (win2000) system.
only thing left for me is to get his pc and hook it up to my 20mbit line and install that stuff.
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:19 am
You failed to mention if you already have the same or higher version of MSIE on your computer it will not work!
May 18th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Doesn’t work if you have IE7 installed already… thanks anyways though.
July 4th, 2007 at 7:52 am
nice tip …..thanx
September 17th, 2007 at 1:14 am
@Tony Mancini
You can use the /q switch to do a quiet install. This will bypass the dialog that comes up when you already have a later version of IE.
November 7th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
well you can download the files if you have IE6, i downloaded the offline installer in a machine with XP SP2
December 17th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
This works well. I am on dialup and have several computers. I sure did not want to go thru this more than once. It will get burned on a CD now.
One problem. You have an error in that string to enter. You have:
#
c:downloadie6setup.exe /c:”ie6wzd.exe /d:1 /s:”"#E”
It should read:
#
“C:\Download\ie6setup.exe” /c:”ie6wzd.exe /d:1 /s:”"#E”
In other words the slash after the word download is missing.
When I copied and pasted the line, it would not run. Then I noticed the error.
Now if only I could understand why MS does not just have an option to just download the whole file.
I will assume this will work on any download of this kind, by just changing the file name.
George
If you reply by email, you may have to send it a second time (to verify) because of my spam blocker.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
thank you, George. The slashes error was due to wordpress auto parsing script to remove the security concerned characters.
December 28th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for this Idea….
January 5th, 2008 at 7:25 am
IE6 Full Install
I have an old IBM600e, running W98SE, that I use for testing out websites on a local testbed server. The machine is not connected to the Internet. To check stuff out I needed Internet Explorer 6.
There are several sites, including Micrososft’s that tell you how to get IE6 onto you machine. However all of them required the machine to be online. These instructions were also found on sites that said to do it this way and not be online as well. Needless to say none of them worked.
A complete, full installer for IE6.0 can be found here: http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/6.0
Click the ie60.exe link and it takes you to a selection of mirrors to download from. Pick one and download the file It’s a 77mb download. I downloaded it with a connected PC to a flash stick then stuck it into my 600e.
Double clicking the ie60.exe file expands the exe file into folder named IE 6.0 FULL (checked it for viruses - none).
OpenED that folder and double click ie6setup.exe and it installED Internet Explorer 6 on the Thinkpad.
I am running it no problem and have burned the IE 6.0 FULL folder with its contents to a CD for future use.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Thank You Very Much
April 20th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Thanks A LOT, you’ve saved me!
I’m writing these instructions in italian as well to help people find this solution more easily through google:
Se vuoi installare Internet Explorer 6 (ie6) in modalità offline (senza connessione) segui queste istruzioni!
May 6th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Hi, excellent work. I did the download, but is facing a problem in installing the downloaded files in my Windows 2000 Server + SP4. Could you please help me? I am not finding an executable to run in the download. Any way out?
Thanks a lot.
George
June 26th, 2008 at 5:39 am
It’s so interesting:,
June 30th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Thank you very much!!! all available downloads is 76mb(full install).
July 25th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Thank you VERY MUCH for this information, I needed to install IE6 on my Windows2000 pc but it only had dialup. Why wait several hours when I can download all the setup files on my friends DSL hooked up computer. Again a million thanks.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Hi
I put the file in the root, running XP SP3, ie 7.0 5730 13
It does load the eula, but then fails (unable to load the required components), , So I tried with /q, still fails.
C:\ie6setup.exe /c:”ie6wzd.exe /d /s /q:”"#E”