My website looks great on IE 7 and Mozilla but today I saw borders on IE 6 in someone office. I understand there is a hack to install multiple IE versions, but I don't want to create computer problems. Is there any other solution so I can preview my site on my computer before I publish it in other versions of IE? I don't want a virtual PC or anything that could casue registry problems.
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Hello cahoonm,
There is a registry hack to install IE6 and IE7, and you can use virtual PC to add IE6. There are no other alternative on same computer.
You can test your site with IE7 on one computer and IE6 on another.
Virtual PC is the lest intrusive way to add IE6 and IE7. Follow these steps
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/a
Hope this helps!
war1
cahoonm,
Most developers use more than one machine to do this test. If you want to have more than one IE on a single computer then use Virtual Machine or VMware. Both have free versions and would allow you to install and run a virtual "platform" (e.g. OS, browsers, etc)
Let me know if you have any questions or need more information.
b0lsc0tt
I appreciate the responses even though in my remarks I mentioned that I wanted to avoid virtual PC or registry problems. Regardless I think the bottomline is I cannot have multiple IE versions cleanly on same computer. I can only say that for web designers this must be a huge pain or they are so good they don't have to check. I gave points to art and boiscott but not dekkar because I went to where he said and there was no IE6. Thank you again however and hope this was fair..
I did find this website that makes a screen shots of your webpage in multiple browsers and multiple OS. It is not exactly what I wanted but did help me isolate a problem.
http://browsershots.org/
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by: dekkarPosted on 2007-12-27 at 19:59:13ID: 20539496
If u r running XP.... goto C:\windows\ie7
there is an iexplore.exe that open ie6 there...