8 Responses to “Running IE6 and IE7 on the same computer”

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   Tommy Valand | 1 year, 4 months ago | #

   I feel safer with running IE6 in a virtual machine, than hacking around.

   M$ has a IE 7 Readiness toolkit: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx

   I use this both at work and at home, and it works really nice..
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   Steve James | 1 year, 4 months ago | #

   Hmmm, I got a bunch of errors when opening up IE7 after using the technique to NOT overwrite IE6. Did you run into this, or did you use the the other method? Or, thirdly, are you using some old beta IE7 version. Thanks!
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   Bas | 1 year, 4 months ago | #

   @Tommy: I don’t use IE6 to browse the web, that would be really stupid. I’m using the IE6 standalone browser only for javascript testing.

   @Steve: I used the standalone IE6 from evolt.org. No warnings or problems at all. I have the latest IE7, no beta..
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   Tommy Valand | 1 year, 4 months ago | #

   @Bas: What are you talking about? Did you actually read what I linked to?

   You upgrade to IE7 on you machine, and use the virtual machine (software that lets you run windows inside windows) with IE6 to test JS/CSS.

   BTW, new release of the virtual-machine image: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/03/20/ie6-vpc-refresh-now-available.aspx
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   Bas | 1 year, 4 months ago | #

   Yeah sure, but why should I use a virtual machine when it runs natively too?
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   Thomas Aylott | 1 year, 4 months ago | #

   I run IE 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6 & 7 on XP in Parallels on my mac.

   I had been manually hacking them up to work, but now you can just run a simple installer to make it all happen perfectly.

   Internet Explorer 7 Standalone Installation Instructions by Tredosoft
   Internet Explorers 3 thru 6 Standalone Installer by Tredosoft

   Works perfectly without having an extra copy of windows running.
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   Markus Ehrlich | 1 year, 4 months ago | #

   I prefer MultipleIEs to run multiple versions of IE on the same machine…
   http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
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