Test IE6 On A Free Virtual PC Image

Posted on Jul 13, 2009 | 0 comments

I’m sure like everyone else you wish IE6 would just go away which it eventually will. The hate for IE6 has gone as far as dedicated websites such as IE Death March and wallpaper However in the meantime if you need to test on IE6 there are a few ways this can be done:

  • Run Xenocode IE6 Browser emulator
  • Install Tredosoft’s MultipleIE
  • Visit Browsershots.org
  • Or just remote into a server running IE6

    • Today I’m going to show you an alternative method testing IE6 in the most accurate manner possible, using a Virtual Machine:

    1. First download VPC (Virtual PC) if you don’t already have it
    2. Then install IE6-XPSP3.exe which is a VPC disk image for testing in a native IE environment.
    3. After you get this image up and running, if you start running Windows Update be sure not to install IE8 :)
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