Discussion:
installing IE6 in addition to IE7
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liketofindoutwhy
2008-04-24 08:05:18 UTC
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I think many web developer nowadays test its final product against
Firefox, IE6, IE7, and sometimes Safari. But that's a big problem if
we have IE7 and need to run IE6 inside of a virtual machine using
VMWare or Virtual PC... since they take up a lot of memory.

Is there a way to actually have IE 6 and IE 7 together on the same
machine? Maybe Microsoft can release an IE6 that can be installed as
a standalone app or somehow it can be hacked to do so? Thanks very
much.
Jean-Fabrice RABAUTE
2008-04-24 09:37:28 UTC
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Post by liketofindoutwhy
I think many web developer nowadays test its final product against
Firefox, IE6, IE7, and sometimes Safari. But that's a big problem if
we have IE7 and need to run IE6 inside of a virtual machine using
VMWare or Virtual PC... since they take up a lot of memory.
Is there a way to actually have IE 6 and IE 7 together on the same
machine? Maybe Microsoft can release an IE6 that can be installed as
a standalone app or somehow it can be hacked to do so? Thanks very
much.
Hi,

You can use IETester :

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

It is free, it embeds from IE5.5 to IE8beta1 without changing your
current config.
It works on XPSP2 and Vista.

Hope this helps.

JFR
http://www.debugbar.com
PA Bear [MS MVP]
2008-04-24 13:27:02 UTC
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See these earlier discussions:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_frm/thread/63e676a592730ffa

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_frm/thread/1e40d40f65fa976e
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Post by liketofindoutwhy
I think many web developer nowadays test its final product against
Firefox, IE6, IE7, and sometimes Safari. But that's a big problem if
we have IE7 and need to run IE6 inside of a virtual machine using
VMWare or Virtual PC... since they take up a lot of memory.
Is there a way to actually have IE 6 and IE 7 together on the same
machine? Maybe Microsoft can release an IE6 that can be installed as
a standalone app or somehow it can be hacked to do so? Thanks very
much.
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