rareexample

So you design websites?
You have clients who’s sites are all messed up because they’re stuck in good old buggy IE6 ?
You’ve made the giant mistake of upgrading to Vista with IE7 and the standalone versions of the old browsers no longer work?

Welcome to my world and the world of many other disgruntled folk stuck in a lackluster Windows clustermuck of buggy shit software.

Well the kind gentle folk over at MS gave us a free way for us to keep testing their shit software. Thanks to the blog over at

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/04/17/ie7-virtual-pc-image-and-ie6-virtual-pc-image-refresh.aspx

First you gotta download a virtual PC

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Then you must download the actual image 450 Megs so hope you have a good net connection…

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

Go bake a cake

Install both respectively

Note the image above expires in July 2008 for some reason…

Now open Microsoft Virtual PC, go next until you see options
Select “Create a virtual Machine”
Click Next and Next again to accept the default operating system selection of Other
You can accept the default RAM allocation or lower the setting to 96MB. Setting the RAM quota below 32MB is not recommended.
Click next. Specify that you wish to use an Existing virtual hard disk and then click Next again
Browse for and select the inflated Virtual Hard Disk file from the download package. Do not enable Undo Disks. Click Next to continue
Click Finish to complete the Wizard

You may need to do this if you are running WAMP and having problems.