[Oracle Forms] How to run/Install IE8 on Windows 7

Hello everyone,

   Doing the Oracle Forms development and getting stuck with the issues that IE9, 10 and 11 bring on Active-X requirements for Oracle Forms, I decided to write this article only for helping others to no waste time trying to install directly IE8 on Windows 7.

The easiest and the way that really works is this:

• Whatever IE version that you have above IE8 is not default in Windows 7. That means if you downgrade the current IE you are going to get the default one - IE8.

• So thinking about that to go to the places that most of the sites ask you to go:

1. Control Panel --> Program and Features --> Turn Windows features on or off --> Uncheck the IE version that you have. This procedure simply don't work because you will not find the IE8 files to install on Windows 7.

• The way that works is:

1. Go to Control Panel --> Program and Features 
2. Select View Installed Updates and this will show you this screen below with a lot of patches and upgrades applied.
   
3. Then once you find the current version of IE you have installed - select it and then click Uninstall.
4. This will ask you to restart your computer.
5. Once you are back to your Windows 7, click in IE and finally you should see the IE8!!!!

I hope it helps you during your forms(PL-SQL) development. Happy Coding.
Thiago Leoncio.