How to use IE 5.0 in Windows XP - SP2

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Subash,

Try this in IE6 newsgroups. BTW, can you tell what happens when you run the
applications in XP? Isn't it backward compatible?

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"Subash" <Subash@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a situation here, we have planned to move to Windows XP – SP2. we
>also
> have lot of third party and custom built web applications.
>
> Problem Statement - XP by default has IE 6.0 and there are apps which
> needs
> IE 5.0 and 5.5 by default to run. We cannot downgrade the IE version in
> XP,
> so how do we handle this. An obvious answer is to remediate those apps but
> are there other creative ways?
>
> Suggestions and guidance welcome
>
>