Installing IE6 after IE7 on Vista Home Premium?
I bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium and IE7 installed
Of course when I tried the IE6 installer it would not work because there is a newer version
I could not delete IE7 or rename it or anything (yes, it is part of the OS in Vista)
I tried the Multiple IE installer and got IE3 working only (gee, that brings back memories) it is known to be incompatible with Vista. I even tried a registry script I found on a different recipe page
I also looked at Running Multiple Versions of IE in Vista
I looked at the Microsoft Virtual PC but that does not seem compatible with Vista Home
This all came up because a colleague said some of my pages from my old personal site are not displaying properly in IE6 (funny, I'm pretty sure that was checked when I made them)
I could use a "browser emulator" screenshot site, but I'd rather have a dual install (but I'm keeping IE3 just for fun - no css! - see the TWF screenshot attached)
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greg posted this at 20:42 — 3rd July 2008.
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yeah, the only way IE6 will run on Vista seemingly is with the VPC.
But then you people who test cross browser compatibility in a hardcore fashin will have already had this installed on XP to run different versions of IE.
decibel.places posted this at 01:51 — 4th July 2008.
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so I was able to install the Virtual PC on Vista Home Premium (even though I got warnings my os was not supported) and I loaded the XP SP2 with IE6 VHD file and I got IE6 running on XP in a window - pretty weird, but seems to be ok
I had some connection problems with my wifi I plugged in ethenet cable and got online
but the XP SP2 with IE6 VHD file expires in September 2008 so it is time limited
andrewtayloruk posted this at 15:35 — 10th July 2008.
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I was trying to do the same thing but ended up getting "Not a valid win32 application" when trying to extract the vhd from the .exe archive microsoft offer.
Instead i downloaded virtual pc 7 for PPC Macs and installed xp that way. Bit of a pain in the arse but is doing the job.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 16:48 — 10th July 2008.
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Hey! Why isn't TWF compatible with IE3???
We are turning away possible members! 
When I test cross-browser compatibility, I use my WinXP laptop to test IE7, and I have Win98 + IE6 through VMWare on my Ubuntu PC.
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