Submitted by Bryan on

Personally, I would just use an old Windows machine with Internet Explorer 6 already on it.  Why do we always make this more complicated than it is?.

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...

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I've tried this...

Deane's picture
...and it's really buggy. The way we did it (I don't know if this is still the case), we swapped out the exe, and essentially ran the IE7 executable of the IE6 install base. Problem was, it still sent User Agents as IE6, which completely defeated the thing we were trying to test.