How To Install IE6 and IE7 on the Same Computer

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Personally, I would love to use IE7 where I had to use IE at all (I think it’s obvious that I vastly prefer Firefox) but at the office, some of our applications only work in IE6. And when I do web design, I’d like to make sure that the pages I put together look good in as many browsers as I can test, but because Internet Explorer is so integrated into Windows, it’s nigh impossible to get more than one version of Internet Explorer on the same machine.

Well, looks like there’s a solution to that problem now. Over at about.com, Jennifer Kyrnin shares a secret: Microsoft’s Virtual PC virtual machine software for Windows. You can use Virtual PC to install and run one version of IE inside the virtual machine while another is installed in the host OS. Check out her tip:

[ About.com :: How to Install Two Versions of IE (IE6 and IE7) on One Machine ]

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