IE6 on vista...

Clarkey · 22 Dec 2006 at 02:30

anyone done this? a copy of IE6 that runs along side IE7 on vista would be great.

Baz · 22 Dec 2006 at 08:33

Some info here

you could run a virtual machine with a different OS on it?

Why would you want to anyway, IE7 is much better than IE6.

Simian · 22 Dec 2006 at 08:42

There are still some sites that don't like IE7 and will only run on IE6 (or sometimes Opera/Firefox in IE6 compatibility modes!)

Baz · 22 Dec 2006 at 08:45

Aaah, I see, try some more goooogling, found some sites that gave some hints on how to do it on one OS. Tricky though.

testa12 · 22 Dec 2006 at 11:08

stop visiting the websites that won't allow IE7 or Firefox

Caged · 22 Dec 2006 at 12:49

Maybe he's a web developer and needs to test things?

Memphis · 22 Dec 2006 at 13:03

Caged said:
Maybe he's a web developer and needs to test things?

Then download the free virtual machine offered by Microsoft to allow IE6 to run on a virtual copy of XP.

testa12 · 22 Dec 2006 at 13:56

A quick google search reveals the following:

User Agent String Utility version 2
A utility that opens an Internet Explorer 7.0 window that is configured to report its identity to websites as being Internet Explorer 6.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9517DB9C-3C0D-47FE-BD04-FAD82A9AAC9F&displaylang=en

Clarkey · 22 Dec 2006 at 15:21

Caged said:
Maybe he's a web developer and needs to test things?

bingo. A VM is not practical really. This machine only has 1GB ram in it, running IE, FF, dreamweaver and notepad++ is enough without adding virtual machines.

Spent hours yesterday fixing the css on a site to work in IE6, I never knew there was anything wrong with it, worked fine in IE7 and FF. Obviously will want to cover opera and safari too but that can wait, IE6 has still got to be the most popular browser.