having IE6 and IE7 on the same machine

Nowadays webpages are usually tested on IE 7, IE 6, Firefox 2, and
Safari... however, IE 6 and IE 7 usually cannot co-exist on the same
machine, and so many developer will need to use a Virtual machine and
that takes a lot of memory.

Is there a way that the IE6 can be put on the same machine as IE7?
Maybe MS can spend a couple days to make a version that can do that?
Or any one knows how to do that? Thanks very much!

C
Thu May 01 13:34:08 PDT 2008

liketofindoutwhy wrote:
> Nowadays webpages are usually tested on IE 7, IE 6, Firefox 2, and
> Safari... however, IE 6 and IE 7 usually cannot co-exist on the same
> machine, and so many developer will need to use a Virtual machine and
> that takes a lot of memory.
>
> Is there a way that the IE6 can be put on the same machine as IE7?
> Maybe MS can spend a couple days to make a version that can do that?
> Or any one knows how to do that? Thanks very much!

See http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_testing.htm#d02_install_ie

rob^_^
Thu May 01 13:35:46 PDT 2008

Hi,

Its' still in beta, but try IETester -
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

IMO virtual machines are better, but then I have a full kit.

Regards.

"liketofindoutwhy" <liketofindoutwhy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Nowadays webpages are usually tested on IE 7, IE 6, Firefox 2, and
> Safari... however, IE 6 and IE 7 usually cannot co-exist on the same
> machine, and so many developer will need to use a Virtual machine and
> that takes a lot of memory.
>
> Is there a way that the IE6 can be put on the same machine as IE7?
> Maybe MS can spend a couple days to make a version that can do that?
> Or any one knows how to do that? Thanks very much!

PA
Thu May 01 17:13:23 PDT 2008

Such side-by-side installs aren't supported.

liketofindoutwhy wrote:
> Nowadays webpages are usually tested on IE 7, IE 6, Firefox 2, and
> Safari... however, IE 6 and IE 7 usually cannot co-exist on the same
> machine, and so many developer will need to use a Virtual machine and
> that takes a lot of memory.
>
> Is there a way that the IE6 can be put on the same machine as IE7?
> Maybe MS can spend a couple days to make a version that can do that?
> Or any one knows how to do that? Thanks very much!