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relequestual:
Ok heres a cracker for you donation coder folk. You havent let me down yet! n this isnt going to be the time!
A web designer friend of mine recently got a nice new laptop, which runs vista home. however, problem when trying to run ie6 using the method before.
anyone know of a way it can be run, sandboxed or otherwise? i know virtual machines, but it seems you need the vista pro or higher to use them.

You know, I really do love donation coder. Its so the place to be! =D

Shades:
Google with the following term:

"IE6eolasNT"

or "IE6eolas"

These should get you stand alone versions from IE. At least that version is running on my XP system.

mwb1100:
My understanding is the Virtual PC 2007 will install and run on Vista Home, but it's not a 'supported' configuration and it will give warnings during install.  However, it is reported to work.  If you go that route, you can try running Microsoft's virtual Machine image that has WinXP with IE6 installed on it:

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

This image will expire on 3 July 2008.  Microsoft periodically updates the image with a new one that has a later expiration date (no telling when they'll decide to stop doing that, though).

Some other URLs that should have helpful information:

http://tredosoft.com/IE6_For_Vista_Part_1 (install IE6 on Vista - sort of)

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE (run multiple versions of IE side-by-side. This does not work on Vista, but might still have useful information)

mwb1100:
Also, I should have mentioned that you can of course run whatever virtual machine host software you want on your Vista Home laptop.  As far as I know, the following support Vista Home Basic as a host platform with WinXP or Win2K as a guest VM:


* VMware Workstation
* VMware Player (free)
* Parallels Workstation
* VirtualBox (free)
* Xen (if you have the right CPU) (free)
Also, Virtual PC 2007 is not supported, but is reported to still work.  With any of these VM platforms you can install your own non-expiring WinXP or Windows 2000 guest and have IE 6 available for as long as you need.

The advantage to this is that you're not dependent on Microsoft continually updating their IE6 test VM image and you don't have to use potentially system destabilizing hacks to get IE6 to run on your Vista system.

relequestual:
Google with the following term:

"IE6eolasNT"

or "IE6eolas"

These should get you stand alone versions from IE. At least that version is running on my XP system.
-Shades (May 27, 2008, 04:59 PM)
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This is reported not to work on vista.

Note to mwb1100
cheers, i will let them know. cant test it myself, but thanks! =D

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