Installing ie7 after ie6 and keeping both

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thecount

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Hi, can anyone help, I need to run ie7 now too to check cross browser performance when developing websites. I currently have ie6 running wihin xp on paralells on my Mac.

Bit of a Parallels newbie and also, I am a long standing user of Macs and not PCs.

thanks in advance.
 
hi,
i guess you can install ie7 into your XP system. It mustn't override ie6 and these two browsers will presents at system without any issues.
 
Hi, what do you mean exactly?

basically, I tred to install ie7 and it did overwrite ie6 so I had to uninstall ie7 and then re install ie6 again.
 
great, thanks.

Just wondering though, is it best to overwrite ie 6 with 7 and then install the multi version installer? as I already have ie6 installed.
 
You could also do two separate VM's, one with IE6 and one with IE7. That might be better for testing since that is how your users might be configured. Clone your current VM and install IE7 in the clone.
 
I would go the latter, it's easy. Just duplicate your install folder, when you get in change your network name, etc. Make sure that you don't have the allotted RAM to both the machines exceeding your total physical memory, that doesn't help if you decide to open them both at once.

Once the folder is duplicated, they are just two VMs.
 
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