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• IE VPC's - Which Ones Next?

  Apologies for going dark the last little while, I'm going to do my best to change that again. Lots of stuff going on here that I'm really excited about, but before I get into that, I want to do an unscientific survey. We currently offer developers and designers the following VPC images: XP + SP2 with IE6 XP + SP2 with IE7 We're looking at the next batch now, and I'm curious, if we were to add one more, which of the following would you prefer? Vista with IE7 Vista + SP1 with IE7 Also, if you're a Mac user, and want to see either VPC images compressed with ZIP, or Parallels users, a comment would be appreciated. No promises on these, I just want to understand what is more important to you. Thanks! PEte Read More... Posted Feb 04 2008, 06:58 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, share, IE6VPC

• "IE8" and VPC's

  Two quick notes that I wanted to get out there. IE8.  Yep, it officially has a name now.  Check out the post from Dean on the IE blog. I've uploaded the new VPC images and am just waiting for them to propagate through the severs, now.  I expect it to be live within the next 24 hours. PEte Read More... Posted Dec 05 2007, 07:16 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, share, IE6VPC, IE8

• IE6 / IE7 VPC's Coming

  Just a quick note to say that the IE6 and IE7 VPC images are being updated as we speak, and I suspect the new versions should be online Monday or Tuesday. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 01:09 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, share, IE6VPC

• Compacting XP VPC Images

  Someone had posted a comment on my blog asking how I get my VPC images down to a reasonable size, so I figured I'd share it here. It's not the most fun process, but it does manage to get a VPC image down from about 5+ gigs, to about 1.5 or so. To start, make sure you do not have undo disks turned on. Create a backup copy of your VPC image, you'll need this later, and it's good to have in case anything goes wrong. In the Add/Remove Components in the control panel, remove any software (applications and Windows components) that you don't need Clear the DLL cache at the command prompt, type " sfc /cachesize=1 " reboot the computer at the command prompt, type " sfc /purgecache " Delete all $something$ files from the %windir% directory except $hf_mig... Posted Apr 05 2007, 02:54 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: Microsoft, share, IE6VPC

• IE6 VPC & IE7 VPC

  We've seen a few reports of people having problems with the recently released IE6 VPC image. At first I thought it was because people were running the image on non-Microsoft virtualization software, which causes the image to be invalidated. But, I got a report internally from someone who confirmed they were running the VPC on Virual PC 2007, and sure enough. Obviously, that's not the problem, and I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm going to spend a few hours this week trying to track it down, but the short answer I think it that I'll end up having to release a new image. Sucky, I know. But, I do have one peice of good news. I'm going to build two Windows XP images in parallel. One for IE6, and we're going to release an IE7 on Windows XP virutal... Posted Apr 02 2007, 04:44 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: IE, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, share, IE6VPC

• IE6 VPC Refresh

  Cross-posted from the IE Blog In my original blog post about releasing the IE6 Virtual PC Image, we mentioned that it would expire on April 1st, 2007 (no, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke), and that we’d be releasing a new VPC image to replace it sometime in March. Well, I’m happy to report that I propped the new VHD up on Monday morning. You can download the image here . Take note that a free download of Virtual PC 2007 is now available, replacing VPC2004. I didn’t make any major changes to the image other than adding the latest security updates. I also managed to reduce the download size to just under 400 megs, shaving off almost 100 megs from the previous image size. This image is time-bombed to July 23 rd , but we will continue to release... Posted Mar 20 2007, 04:20 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: Microsoft, web design, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, share, IE6VPC

• IE6 VPC (An Update)

  Just a quick update to let you know the work for the IE6 VPC has been mostly completed. We're down to the last few steps, and I hope to have it out by the end of the week. Before we release it, I'll be testing it on the PC, and I also want to test it on VPC for the Mac, as I heard a few people say it wouldn't work there. It'll be pretty much the same as last time, though I had to create a new image, I did manage to get it a hair smaller. It'll have about a 4 month time bomb on it again, and the same EULA. Feel free to make any other requests and I'll see what I can do, but no promises! Read More... Posted Mar 12 2007, 12:34 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: Microsoft, IE, web design, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, share, IE6VPC