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Speed-up and usage tips for IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: bcamp1973 on Jan 31, '05 10:23:39AM

Exactly what i've been looking for! However, does anyone know of a way to "force" Win2000 to see the Mac's web sharing? I'm running older versions of IE on Win2000 and IE 6 on XP so i can test back to IE 5.0...however, the Win2000 machine won't see the Mac web server...



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Speed-up and usage tips for IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: rotaiv on Jan 31, '05 10:54:40AM

As one who has installed every version of Microsoft's operating systems from Windows 1.01 to Windows Server 2003 in "virtual" environments, I can tell you that in my opinion, the leanest and most efficient OS to run is NT 4.0. The worst, without a doubt, is Windows Me ;) I also concur that Win XP runs way better than Win 98 virtually.



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NT 4 within VPC
Authored by: demmons65 on Jan 31, '05 03:07:51PM

I concur with rotaiv that NT 4 seems the fastest of all Windows under VPC. The company I work for tested 98, NT4, W2K, and XP Pro for speed. We're accessing an ADP Windows-only payroll solution and NT4 seemed to be the most repsonsive of the 4. The fact that licensed NT 4 was about $25 per seat didn't hurt either.

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Speed-up and usage tips for IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: pukupi on Jan 31, '05 08:36:25PM
See my hint here for connecting to a local web server from Virtual PC. You can ignore the note at the end if you are running the latest version of Virtual PC as this network bug has been fixed.

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IE5 as well as IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: jeffh1 on Feb 01, '05 05:49:04AM

Slightly off-topic; does anyone know whether you can install both IE 5.0 or 5.5 as well as IE 6 on XP? I don't want to have to set up two Windows installations under VPC, but I have heard I should be checking my sites under both IE 5.x and 6.

Thanks
Jeff



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IE5 as well as IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: graemeaustin on Feb 01, '05 12:29:03PM

I did a lot of reading around this about six months ago, but I am a bit hazy now.

The bottom line is no: in order to do that (& developers do) you need to be real careful that you don't end up overwriting shared folders.

Whoever told you to test against IE 5.x and IE6 was absolutely right: they are independent builds and can produce some very different results, especially if you rely on css type style sheets.

Good luck.



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IE5 as well as IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: tibbeecreek on Feb 02, '05 03:37:29AM

Not to argue - again, I'm not a tech guy - but you can test concurrently with IE6 on the same machine.
Just do a search on Google for IE 5.1 Standalone - or check the Microsoft page - you can download and install both 5.1 and 5.5 while retaining 6. But again, they MUST be the standalone versions.
Another oddity, though, is that the 2 standalone versions are ACTUALLY IE6 - they've just been modified by M$ to mimic the behavior of the older browsers.

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