Installing 32bit IE9 on a 64bit system

[whs]

It has been said that the 32bit IE9 is a lot faster than it's 64bit sibling. But the installation of the 32bit version on a 64bit system is a bit confusing. This article helps.

First, as many of you have discovered, if you try to download and install 32-bit IE 9 on a 64-bit Windows PC, you’ll get the error message: “This version of setup doesn’t support your Windows system type (32-bit/64-bit).” It’s right. You can’t.

Instead what you need to do is to download the 64-bit version of IE 9. Yes, I know, it’s the version you don’t want if you want great Web browser performance, just stick with me. After you’ve done this, if you look at your All Programs menu, you’ll see, right under Internet Explorer (64-bit), “Internet Explorer,” that’s the 32-bit version.

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[rvbfan]

Only addon not supported in 64bit. is Silverlight, no?

 

[Phone Man]

On the IE9 download page it shows:



It would be better if they said:

Which OS version do you have?

They imply OS but not everybody interprets the wording the same way.

Jim