Comments on: Testing IE6 on Vista Using Virtual PC

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:26:19 +0000

@jack
If you dive into this topic you will see that IE is so intertwined with windows that it is not realistic to assume IE6-imitators show the same css and other problems as the genuine IE6. Has to do with dll’s.

With a huge user base and a complex website you will certainly run into users using IE6 who find bugs that you missed because you used an emulator.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:38:12 +0000

Why go so complicated if there is some easiest way? Leave that one and search in google for IETester. download and test straight all ie Versions from 5 to 9 without doing any settings. Works in Vista…

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:26:16 +0000

I’m not sure if it works in Vista (though I would imagine it does) but this site might come in handy for running older versions of IE, without the need for a VM:

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

By: Ryan Battles - Web Designer and Developer

Ryan Battles - Web Designer and Developer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:03:53 +0000

As a web designer and developer, I can’t live without my virtual pc setup. I also have a copy of Ubuntu linux with virtual pc. It is so great to be able to boot into WinXP so quickly.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:00:11 +0000

Thanks so much. Couldn’t work out how to network. Now I use ie6 again! Joy of joys.

By: Searls

Searls — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:59:41 +0000

Thanks, I got in. Sincerely appreciate it.

By: graiz

graiz — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:28:49 +0000

Searls – There should be an option to allow the system to manage memory automatically. This option may have been turned option off so he packaged image would be smaller. This page may also help you with step 6: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417

By: Searls

Searls — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:16:12 +0000

Thanks. I got as far as #6, but when I tried I couldn’t change the virtual memory. After clicking “change” do I clicked “custom size” (was that the right thing to do?) and I tried the values 2000MB and 3000MB for initial and max sizes, but my changes didn’t seem to apply after clicking “okay” and restarting. It’s as if it didn’t recognize my change at all. Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

By: Josh G

Josh G — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:24:32 +0000

Thanks very much for the tips. I would have never found that IE was configured to go through that proxy.

By: Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:27:11 +0000

I’ve been using this setup for about 12 months now, or enough to run through two of the 6-month licenses for the images (yup, that MS for you). I prefer them over the Multiple IE solution since those stand-alone IE’s don’t handle Conditional Comments well.

And in case you happen to just love IE 6 and want to use it as your default browser, you can get the PC image with IE 7 instead.

Thanks for the tip on the networking bit. I recently had my PC re-imaged and couldn’t figure out how to get that working again!