Are you frustrated by the fact that you can’t install IE6 and IE7 on the same machine? This is a MUST for web developers as they need to check for compatibilities between browsers. What I had been doing up until now was using VMware which can be a PITA.

In my search for a solution I came across a website that explained how to install multiple versions of IE on the same machine. Apparently this had been done all the way back in 2003 by Joe Maddalone who achieved this by exploiting a know workaround DLL redirection.

Manfred Staudinger perfected the standalone versions by adding IE versions #’s to the title bar of the standalone browser window.

Yousif Al Saif over at TredoSoft thought it would be a convenient way to automate the process or installing all the versions of IE (IE3, IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6).

Screenshot of Multiple IE

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