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Free Microsoft Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images

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Microsoft has published some Virtual PC Hard Disk Images for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista.

The download page
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef

contains four different VPC images, which are:

    * IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe - Windows XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file
    * IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe - Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file
    * IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe  - Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file
    * IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar - a Vista Image with IE7 VHD file.
       
VHD files are the Virtual Hard Drives for Virtual PC.  You can get a free copy of Virtual PC from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

The Vista image is built from the 3 IE7-VIS* files, to create the Vista image, download all three files into the same directory and run IE7-VIS1.exe

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