From 10/2001  Langalist

*** Karl
 
5) Installing IE6 

*** [and How to Save download for future repairing !!!] ***

You can install IE6 in any of several ways. The simplest ways are to go
to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ or http://www.microsoft.com/ie/
and follow the on-screen instructions.

But there's a less-obvious way that may be better for you if you 
need to install or reinstall IE multiple times, and don't want 
to go through the long download each time. For example:

     Hi Fred...in a past newsletter you told us about a site we
     could go to to download a full install of IE 5.5 without going
     through the online install. Does Microsoft have a site we can
     go to to download IE 6.0? Sincerely, Jeff Lundholm

Sure, Jeff. It's not a separate site, but rather a separate method 
that begins the same way as the standard install of both IE5 and 6.
It lets you 

*** download all the IE5 or 6 files to your hard drive*** 
or (say) a network server, and 

*** then later use those files to install 
the software as many times as you wish, ***

 whenever you wish, without

having to re-download everything. Here's how:

Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ or
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ . 

Select IE6, and start the download. 
Note that---despite appearances---  the first thing that 
downloads is NOT the actual browser, but rather a setup/download
management tool (468K).

Run the setup/download manager; when you're asked, accept the 
download agreement.

The setup/download manager will report "initializing setup..." and 
then offer two choices: 

"Install Now" (the default choice) 

and 

"Install Minimal or Customize Your Browser." 

If you read the small type beneath each main option, 
you'll see that "Install Minimal" includes an option to "download 
and install later." 

That's what you want: Select "Install Minimal." Click Next.

At the first "Options" screen ("Component Options"), click the
"Advanced" button and then select "download only." Click Next.

At the next "Options" screen, make the appropriate choices for
download type and destination.

Let the download proceed; when it's complete, run the newly-downloaded
separate Setup tool in whatever the download directory you specified.

You can re-run that Setup as often as you wish without having to re-
download all the files. Nice!

Note that this technique works on older versions of IE, too: 

Many of Microsoft's downloads offer a way to save the files to 
disk for later use, rather than installing them right away: 
Just poke around the download dialog boxes to see what 
your options are!