All you have to do is launch a Windows application like Calculator, and then click the Help button. Under Help, click "Help Topics," which will bring up a help window. Next, all you have to do is right click on the title bar and select "Jump To URL." Now you can type in any web address you like, but make sure to include "http://" at the beginning. Basically what you're looking at is Internet Explorer 6 inside a help window, but this version of the program isn't quite as smart as IE6. It won't automatically add the http:// for you. And of course, there's no bookmarking feature.
How to surf the web even if Internet Explorer is disabled
All you have to do is launch a Windows application like Calculator, and then click the Help button. Under Help, click "Help Topics," which will bring up a help window. Next, all you have to do is right click on the title bar and select "Jump To URL." Now you can type in any web address you like, but make sure to include "http://" at the beginning. Basically what you're looking at is Internet Explorer 6 inside a help window, but this version of the program isn't quite as smart as IE6. It won't automatically add the http:// for you. And of course, there's no bookmarking feature.
Run IE 6 and 7 on the same machine
If you do hard-core web development, which do you use? IE 6 or IE 7? I would rather use Firefox, but I have to develop for IE, since most of the world still uses it. Sure IE7 is new, IE6 is old, and they are similar, yet it is tough to develop for both, especially when you can't really install both together on the same machine. Microsoft is going to help you out with that. On November 30th, Microsoft released the Internet Explorer VPC testing image. This is a virtual PC image that lets you run IE 6 and IE 7 on the same virtual machine. The image is built on a pre-activated copy of Windows XP SP2 underneath so that could be fun for all kinds of other things too. The catch here is that the image expires on April 1, 2007. Still, it isn't a bad idea to download it and is going to help me make and break IE 6 and 7 stuff a lot faster now. You can download Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for free to run the image (if you don't have it already). The IEblog states that the VPC image will also run on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (download it via connect, Windows Live passport sign-in required) if you're running Vista. Mary Jo Foley, (of Microsoft Watch fame) has written a great article on this over at her new home at ZDNet's "Unblinking Eye on Microsoft" blog that you might find interesting. Be aware, the VPC testing image is around 500MB to download, so go get yourself a cookie, a candy cane, some egg-nog or something while you're waiting.
Run Internet Explorer 6 on Mac OS X
Why would you want to do something like install Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 on Apple's OS X? Well, the sad truth is that IE6 is still the most prevalent web browser in the world, and web designers-even the Mac kind-can't afford to start ignoring it yet. Unsurprisingly, the trick to getting IE to run on OS X is based on IEs4Linux, a tool with the same purpose, but for Linux. For the Mac, however, it takes a bit more fiddling, as described in this thread on the Ars Technica forums. Not exactly a one-click install, but probably preferable for some to actuall getting Windows.How to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine
Since version 3.0 Internet Explorer has had a
"standalone mode" that has allowed web developers to view their work in several different versions of the
browser concurrently, but earlier this month a cumulative security patch for IE6 released earlier this month broke
standalone mode. It prevents, among other things, developers wishing to make their sites work with Internet Explorer 7
from doing so without abandoning IE6 altogether. The IE teams' flippant reply to the please of developers was that this
is by design and standalone mode isn't supported and if they want to work with IE7 they have no choice but to use it
exclusively. Despite their boneheaded attitude (brilliant, guys--for the first time in years developers actually want
to work with IE, but you're gonna make it hard for them), somone, namely Jon Galloway, has found a workaround. Galloway
came up with a registry patch and wrote a
batch file that will let you run IE7, and then, when you're done, clean up the mess it left behind allowing you to
run IE6 again. Great work, Jon!













