IE App. Compatibility VHD’s

Even if you aren’t testing out Internet Explorer Applications you might find a practical use for these fully functional operating systems including Windows XP SP2 and Vista.  Why XP isn’t SP3 is a mystery but that can be easily remedied.

This is also a convenient way to look at the beta of IE 8.

Version:
3.0

Date Published:
7/3/2008

Language:
English

Download Size:
445.0 MB – 3388.3 MB*

*Download size depends on selected download components.

Overview

This download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test.

• IE6-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE6 VHD file
• IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file
• IE8B1-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE8 Beta 1 VHD file
• IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with IE7 VHD file.

Note: For The Vista image, you will need all three files, downloaded and in the same directory, then simply run IE7-VIS1.exe.
This VPC image will expire in Early September, 2008.

Download details: IE App Compat VHD

Registry Permission Reset? Meet SubInACL

When the registry permissions need reset this is the way to go.  Today I used this tool, SubInACL, to troubleshoot an IE7 won’t install issue where the installer log indicated that specific keys couldn’t be written to.  Upon further investigation the keys were completely absent of any visible permission and I couldn’t change a thing including assuming ownership.

What’s a fella to do?  Go to Aaron Stebner’s blog is what!  This SubInACL tool, a Windows Resource Kit app., along with the cmd instructions provided worked fairly quickly (under 5 minutes) and achieved the exact result desired.

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx