How to run IE6 on Vista!

One problem with Vista is that all the IE6 versions don't work. Unfortunately, I found that out after upgrading!

I googled and there are all these "awesome methods" of running IE6. "Just download Virtual PC (pretty sure you gotta buy it, or download it illegally) and this virtual hard drive image Microsoft made which allows IE6 to work (all up, over 1000mb! Just to run IE6!)

Of course, I figured there must be a better way. 1GB of crap to get a stupid 15mb browser to work is completely over the top. After hours, I found it! (clap clap Microsoft, yet again your solution was rubbish)

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Granted, its still in testing. It works for me though, allowing me to look at IE.5, IE6, IE7 and even IE8 beta!

Have fun boys and girls

 

You could use a Virtual machine. I like Virtualbox. It's free and basically lets you run another Windows installation right in Windows. I also run Ubuntu Linux with a few browsers for testing purposes; it's great and once you get the hang of it, it's pretty damn easy!

 

Could.

This is a nice, easy, 20mb way of having 4 major IE versions run on your Vista machine!

Virtualbox is better for the fact you can run more OS's (and test on more browsers), on the flipside it is also more complex and requires more system resources.

I was going to install it, though this does the trick... I'll get a dedicated *nix and Mac box someday...

 

I used the "Virtual Machine" thing when I had Vista (I have XP now so I don't have to worry) so that I could install multiple IE's on the virtual machine, worked perfectly.

 

does it require to install separate operating system for each virtual machine ????

 

Yes. You can allocate as much or as little system space as you want though but they do have to be installed separately.

 

You could also use this service: http://browsershots.org/ Very useful for us developers.

 

i use virtual machine its great to use

 

Yep, handy for me at times because I have an opposite timezone to lots in the US and Europe, so I get my screenshots loading in less than 5 minutes. If I go there at the wrong time, I have to wait hours I do believe they have a subscription thing (http://browsershots.org/priority/) which gets nearly instant processing for $15 a month.

 

I'd prefer using a Virtual Machine to run IE6 on Vista because I never did like stand-alone browsers. After all, Microsoft did provide a free Virtual PC for such a use.

 

Yes... a ~500MB virtual machine.

Not everyone has massive internet or awesome PC specs. Why download 500MB when 20MB does the job? If you have the net to blow then yeah sure, many people don't though... (or are tightasses like me and don't wan t to spend some of their limit on a massively bloated download )