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Running IE6 & IE7 on one machine, the right way

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We have heard tons of feedback about the need for developers to run both IE6 and IE7 on their machine simultaneously to test Web sites.  The challenge is that when you install IE7 it replaces IE6.  To date we have not had a supported way of handling this although there have been myriad hack ways of accomplishing this task.

To resolve this Pete LePage set out on a quest to figure out an easy, free, and correct way to do this.  Check out his blog for more context, but today he released a VPC that provides everything you need to do it.  Get all the details here.

Let us know what you think!

https://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-an...

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    November 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2006
    Try IE stand alones: http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2007
    The evolt solution works, but the stand-alone version of IE6 will still think it is IE7 in many cases such as with conditional style comments. For example, if you have the following on your page to load css specifically for IE6, it will not work with the evolt solution: <!--[if lt IE 7]> <style type="text/css" media="all">@import "fix-ie.css";</style> <![endif]-->