IE6 & IE7 on the same PC

Question

hi:
has anybody tried any of this approaches to run IE6 & IE7
on the same PC?
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/Multiple-IEs-in-Windows_article795.aspx
jdoe

Answer 1

Hugh Watkins wrote:
> John Doe wrote:
>
>> hi:
>>
>> has anybody tried any of this approaches to run IE6
& IE7 on the same PC?
>>
>>
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx
>>
>>
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/Multiple-IEs-in-Windows_article795.aspx
>
>
> you can have a virtual machine to run legacy software
>
>
http://www.parallels.com/en/
>
>
> Hugh W
>
yes, virtualization seems to be the best approach, i'm
planning to use
Parallels in my MacIntel. for those using only Windows, the
free VPC
virtual machine image looks as a good option:
"IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine
Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by
side
environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year,
it’s
unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but
they are
unsupported and don’t necessarily work the same way as
IE6 or IE7 would
work when installed properly. As Chris said, the best way to
use
multiple versions of IE on one machine is via virtualization.
Microsoft
has recently made Virtual PC 2004 a free download; we’ve
taken advantage
of that by releasing a VPC virtual machine image containing a
pre-activated Windows XP SP2, IE6 and the IE7 Readiness
Toolkit to help
facilitate your testing and development. The image is time
bombed and
will no longer function after April 1, 2007. We hope to
continue to
provide these images in the future as a service to web
developers.
Now you can install IE7 on your main machine for development,
and get
all the advantages of IE7, like the RSS platform, native
XMLHTTP stack,
and improved security, while still running IE6 simultaneously
in the VPC
on the same computer. Most importantly, you don’t even
have to buy an
additional Windows license. The VPC image runs in a virtual
machine that
offers all of the functionality of a full IE6 installation
without
giving it any access to its host machine’s hard drive,
registry, etc.
You can make as many modifications as you want to the virtual
machine
without affecting your host installation at all.
Included in the VPC image are:
Windows XP Professional SP2 + high-priority fixes through
November 2006
Internet Explorer 6.0
Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit 2.0
While we’ve released a VPC image today with Windows XP
SP2, we’re also
investigating creating other VPC images, for example IE5,
IE5.5, IE6 and
IE6 SP1, as well as versions of IE on different language
operating systems.
Get more information on Virtual PC 2004
Download Virtual PC 2004
Download the Internet Explorer 6 Testing VPC Image
One more note - VPC 2004 doesn’t run on Windows Vista,
but this image
will work fine with VPC 2007, which is in beta now. You can
get this
free beta via Connect.
Happy testing!
PEte LePage
Product Manager"