Comments on: Run IE6, IE7 and IE8 side by side

By: Toronto Website Designers

Toronto Website Designers — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:22:05 +0000

I don’t know if anybody mentioned that but there is one elegant way to run IE6, IE7 and IE8 on the same machine, called virtual PC.

First download virtual PC from Microsoft website here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?FamilyID=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en

Then download 3 EXE files with IE6, IE7 and IE8 here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

Install them on your PC and test your web applications. Saved me days of looking for similar solutions.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:59 +0000

After going through the steps as indicated, I could not get any Bookmarks to work on any IE browser. They were there, but clicking on them did nothing except in IE6…it opened the Print dialog.

Pat

By: aarfing

aarfing — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:24:43 +0000

Jep, that’s exactly what it means – no virtual PC’s…

By: Melay

Melay — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:06:31 +0000

Hi aarfing,

Just a question..Does this mean there’s no need to install any VPCs on a computer? ‘Coz this will really help me a lot. VPCs are a bit much heavy and I really regret not having the right workstation for it.
The rest of the multi-browser solutions I’ve read required installing a VPC and then installing the browsers in there.

Thanks.

By: aarfing

aarfing — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:35:48 +0000

@Jack

Sorry mate, but the only program that gets installed on your PC is IE8, the other IE installs are just files that gets copied to new folders in your “Program files”-directory (no registry-changes or the like) and therefore they aren’t able to “fuck up” your computer, as you say… The only thing that could have gone wrong was the installation of IE8, which you’ll have a hard time blaming on me…

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:04:50 +0000

Thanks

your instructions completely fucked up my PC – nice one.

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:21:19 +0000

@aarfing

The left shifted boxes are only on the home site.

I had Multiple IE installed on four different machines. All are running under WinXP Prof. SP3. On every of this machines i checked the websites and saw that it was not rendered like in the original IE 6.

By: aarfing

aarfing — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:06:14 +0000

@David

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had trouble using Multiple IE 6, but I’ve just tested the your URL in both Multiple IE 6 and a real IE 6 and found no difference (besides one them are using ClearType to render the font and the other aren’t). I still never have seen any difference between the two…

Se screenshots: Real IE6 and Multiple IE6.

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:46:15 +0000

@aarfing

I wan’t using proprietary IE stuff, it was common CSS. I had it three times in the last two years, when i was working on an web project and checked it in different browsers, that the IE from the Multiple IE package was rendering different than the “original” IE 6.

I am sorry, but i haven’t written down the cases. I just checked some old project and at http://www.dil-ev.de you see in the Multiple IE 6 the boxes touching the left border. In the normal IE 6 the boxes are centered.

By: aarfing

aarfing — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:41:36 +0000

@David

Well, having seperate full installations of the different IE-version is of course the optimal solution, but this is meant to be an easy alternative for those who can’t bother to maintain three extra OS’ just because of a browser.

And by the way, I haven’t experienced any problems concerning CSS-rendering as you mention. Maybe if one uses some of those proprietary IE-filters or the like, one could get into trouble. Could you please point me to a page that renders differently in normal IE and in multiple IE?