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Thanks for the response, however, I have literally just managed to correct this issue, and thought I would share my resolution with everyone on here.

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i just want to be in a situation where the VM will start and log in automatically particularly as I would like to run multiple IE’s for browser testing simultaneously without having to login to each VM every time.Īny suggestions as to how to fix this would be awesome. I don’t have this problem with the original XP mode VM, as this has the correct saved credentials. I then have to remove both the domain, and XP_IE7 from the username within tthe XP login box (leaving just Administrator as the username), and it logs in fine. I tried providing the credentials in the form of:Įach time I get an XP’s login box rejecting the credentials and I know why – because the Windows 7 login box prepends the host machine’s domain (which is just my computer name) to the username, and this fails.

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When it comes to logging in, I followed the install steps, and got my second version of xp up and running, however when I enabled integration features, I got a host machine logon box, asking for login credentials. So here’s the end result, IE6, IE7 and IE8 all running on Windows 7:Īhhh, 3 generations, all together – don’t they look adorable? When IE7 has installed and rebooted, create a shortcut to IE7 in the “All Users” start menu which, after a short delay, will create a corresponding shortcut in the Windows 7 start menu of the host. I chose to Remember my credentials for convenience.

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For credentials enter Administrator and the password you entered during setup.

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Enable Integration Features from the Tools menu of the Virtual PC window.

Now start the new Virtual PC you just created from the Virtual Machines folder and complete Windows Setup as appropriate, choosing a computer name unique for your network and an Administrator password: If you want, you can change the default name and location (I didn’t bother):įor the parent virtual hard disk choose the original Virtual Windows XP virtual disk, which on my machine was at C:Program FilesVirtual Windows XPVirtual Windows XP.vhd: This is the same way that the default Virtual Windows XP VM is set up: Choose “Create a virtual hard disk using advanced options” Specify a name and location for the virtual machine:įor memory I specified 256MB, which should me more than enough for just running IE7: Open the Virtual Machines folder from the Start Menu and click Create virtual machine:

The workaround is to create a new instance of the VM manually using the supplied VHD as the base disk image. Unfortunately, if you run the VirtualWindowsXP.msi setup again you’ll get a message saying “Setup has detected that Virtual Windows XP is already installed”: You can’t install IE7 side-by-side with IE6 on the same machine, so to run IE7 at the same time as IE6 we will need to create a new VM. When you launch this shortcut in Windows 7, the main Virtual PC window will close and the application will be launched and projected onto your desktop.

Out of the box, the Virtual PC image is Windows XP SP3 with IE6. The trick to getting IE6 to appear as a seamless window like this is to launch the Virtual Windows XP virtual machine and in the VM, create a shortcut in the “All Users” Start Menu or desktop:Īfter a short delay, the shortcut will be duplicated into the Windows 7 host’s start menu: IE8’s compatibility mode does a pretty good job of emulating IE7 but there are differences, so I investigated how to get “real” IE7 running under Windows 7’s XP Mode, without losing IE6. The main reason I’m interested in this is to run older versions of Internet Explorer for testing purposes. This new edition of Virtual PC includes cool features such as seamless windows. Windows 7’s XP Mode is essentially a Windows XP virtual machine that runs in the new Windows 7 version of Virtual PC.