Running Heinemann Solutionbanks in Internet Explorer

A looong time ago, I was studying A Level maths and to help me, I bought a range of Solutionbanks written by Heinemann which came on CDROM.

Dusting off my maths books and materials, I was surprised to find that the CDROM no longer worked when installed. The first thing it complains about is running addons (which was fine and is easy to fix - just click on Allow Blocked Content).

Next, it then exclaimed that my version of IE wasn’t higher than 5.5 which really was surprising given that I was using version 11!

Fixing this in Internet Explorer 11 (and probably some earlier versions) is easy. Just follow these steps:

  1. Click OK to remove the pop-up window.
  2. Press F12.
  3. In the black bar on the bottom left side, scroll down until you see the white on black image of a computer monitor and system unit (the last one) and click on it.
  4. On the first combo-box drop down lavelled Document Mode, select 7. You should now see the main screen (below) appear.
  5. Lastly, press F12 to remove the window at the bottom.

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