On 9/12/06, Al Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Standalone installs can be problematic. MS Virtual PC is now free. I > recommend it highly as you are totally insulated from any possible > issue.
And issues there are. I, unfortuntely, used neither VirtualPC nor a standalone install; I installed IE7, and then after trying it out, uninstalled it to revert to IE6. I wound up with a nonfunctional browser that was irrepairable short of reinstalling Windows (and I tried, scouring Microsoft's knowledge base[*] and the rest of the web for solutions which didn't, alas, work). My IT dept's handy-dandy "repair IE6" tool sure didn't do the trick; it rendered my system completely unusable, so it's being reinstalled even as I type this (on my Mac, which is PPC and so not very useful for trying Windows browsers). (*) Totally off-topic: why is it that Microsoft, within the very same knowledgebase article that has you tweaking registry entries where both the key and value are long meaningless strings of hexadecimal numbers, feels that asking you to open up the "C:\Windows\Inf" folder is too technical? How is it that I, their apparent target audience member, can navigate to a specific key in Regedit - without even the benefit of copy and paste for the path to said key - but to find the ie.inf file, the instructions say to use "Find files or folders"?? -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
