My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
May I install IE8 so that both IE7 & 8 can coexist?
If yes, how?

No!
"albertkao" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
> May I install IE8 so that both IE7 & 8 can coexist?
> If yes, how?

Running Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer On Single Operating System is
Unsupported
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2020599

Also see
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...e-machine.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/anna/archive/2...-explorer.aspx
--
IE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...plorer.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


albertkao wrote:
> My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
> May I install IE8 so that both IE7 & 8 can coexist?
> If yes, how?

On 4/27/2010 9:22 AM On a whim, albertkao pounded out on the keyboard

> My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
> May I install IE8 so that both IE7& 8 can coexist?
> If yes, how?

Hi Albert,

If you need it for testing web compatibility, I installed the MS
Expression Web 3 Superpreview for IE. With IE8 installed (that's the
only way it works), you can also view pages in IE6/IE7 and check for
compatibility issues.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


The only other way would be to use a VM and install XP with the versions
you require.


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On 4/27/2010 9:40 AM On a whim, Unknown pounded out on the keyboard

> No!
> "albertkao"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
>> May I install IE8 so that both IE7& 8 can coexist?
>> If yes, how?
>
>

An emphatically wrong answer...


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Go ahead and try it. Be emphatically stupid.
"Terry R." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 4/27/2010 9:40 AM On a whim, Unknown pounded out on the keyboard
>
>> No!
>> "albertkao"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:C415105D-C65D-4BAA-9C73-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
>>> May I install IE8 so that both IE7& 8 can coexist?
>>> If yes, how?
>>
>>
>
> An emphatically wrong answer...
>
>
> Terry R.
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There is a special browser archive you can download which allows you to
"test" both IE7 and IE8 on a web page, but it was very limited, as I recall.
I tried it once, and it was just too limited, but I guess it was ok to check
and see if a single page is compatible in both versions (but that was about
all it could do). I don't think there is anyway to have both browsers
FULLY installed (i.e, as complete and fully functioning browsers), short of
(possibly) using a Virtual PC.

Unknown wrote:
> Go ahead and try it. Be emphatically stupid.
> "Terry R." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On 4/27/2010 9:40 AM On a whim, Unknown pounded out on the keyboard
>>
>>> No!
>>> "albertkao"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:C415105D-C65D-4BAA-9C73-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
>>>> May I install IE8 so that both IE7& 8 can coexist?
>>>> If yes, how?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> An emphatically wrong answer...
>>
>>
>> Terry R.
>> --
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On 4/27/2010 1:27 PM On a whim, Unknown pounded out on the keyboard

> Go ahead and try it. Be emphatically stupid.
> "Terry R."<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On 4/27/2010 9:40 AM On a whim, Unknown pounded out on the keyboard
>>
>>> No!
>>> "albertkao"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:C415105D-C65D-4BAA-9C73-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> My computer has windows XP SP3 and IE7.
>>>> May I install IE8 so that both IE7& 8 can coexist?
>>>> If yes, how?
>>>
>> An emphatically wrong answer...
>>
>>
>> Terry R.
>

I gave an example to the OP that allows it. But you can continue
feeling like a know it all.


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