Comments on: IE6, IE7 And IE8 On Mac OS X Step By Step

By: JC

JC — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:19:46 +0000

Microsoft recently extended the expirations on their images, but now when I attempt to get the image booted it wants me to activate my windows install.

It won’t activate over the Internet option, and requires activation through either the Internet, or a Telephone Representative. The Telephone option requires entry of a confirmation ID.

Has anyone seen this recently?

Otherwise, these instructions have been perfect.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have on this activation problem.

By: S

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:35:27 +0000

Got this working 4/1/2010 — no fooling.

Summarizing all other comments, I changed the following from the original instructions with success:

- Replace step 4/5: Renamed .exe files to .rar and used Zipeg instead of Unarchiver (unarchiver returned error). (Zipeg wouldn’t even let me try .exe)

- Before step 7: Under Marc’s suggestion downloaded antiwpa.zip (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MJPZIMOH), expanded, burned to CD and mounted CD through virtual box

- Before step 7.9: Run the cmd file in the burned cd with antiwpa

It is extremely important that you start into safe mode the first time and complete the above steps and 7.8 otherwise you might get to the needing activation stage

Happy testing.

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:08:28 +0000

When I get .exe set up for The Unarchiver, I open one of the IEs and for every one I get the following message:

The contents of the file “IE6-XP-SP3.exe” cannot be extracted from this program.

Anyone have any help for that? I’m no that good with this stuff.

P.S. If this helps, I have a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2

Please write back ASAP,
David

By: Max Westen

Max Westen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:13:28 +0000

Thanks for the great howto !
Since the update, extracting the images with the Unarchiver doesn’t work (at least for me).
I found that UnRarX http://www.unrarx.com does the trick.

If you’re using VMWare Fusion, the following page holds some nice info too:
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7250

Cheers and keep up the good work !

Max

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:05:23 +0000

i see we need to use ie6 ie7 ie8, I only need ie7, ie 8 effects my work site and I cant use it.. Do i still need to download ie8 disk images

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:04:40 +0000

one more question.. i see we need to use ie6 ie7 ie8, I only need ie7, ie 8 effects my work site and I cant use it.. Do i still need to download ie8 disk images

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:01:20 +0000

Hi There Andrew,
I am a newby to mac, but am looking to install ie7. is this safe

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:45:43 +0000

Had the same problem with no internet. If you go to the control panel and go to the Add Hardware wizard, it should find your ethernet adapter. Then just tell it to automatically find the drivers for you, and it should install them. After that, I had internet.

By: Andrew Odri

Andrew Odri — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:13:15 +0000

Yes of course Bernardo

By: Bernardo

Bernardo — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:18:33 +0000

Hi. Can I translate your tutorial to portuguese and put it on my blog?
I’ll surelly give the credits and link to this post.