![]() Unfortunately, if you run the VirtualWindowsXP.msi setup again you’ll get a message saying “Setup has detected that Virtual Windows XP is already installed”: ![]() ![]() You can’t install IE7 side-by-side with IE6 on the same machine, so to run IE7 at the same time as IE6 we will need to create a new VM. When you launch this shortcut in Windows 7, the main Virtual PC window will close and the application will be launched and projected onto your desktop. ![]() Out of the box, the Virtual PC image is Windows XP SP3 with IE6. The trick to getting IE6 to appear as a seamless window like this is to launch the Virtual Windows XP virtual machine and in the VM, create a shortcut in the “All Users” Start Menu or desktop:Īfter a short delay, the shortcut will be duplicated into the Windows 7 host’s start menu: IE8’s compatibility mode does a pretty good job of emulating IE7 but there are differences, so I investigated how to get “real” IE7 running under Windows 7’s XP Mode, without losing IE6. The main reason I’m interested in this is to run older versions of Internet Explorer for testing purposes. This new edition of Virtual PC includes cool features such as seamless windows. Windows 7’s XP Mode is essentially a Windows XP virtual machine that runs in the new Windows 7 version of Virtual PC.
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