Lets thinapp IE7 and IE8 together
Its, Monday morning so time for some fun!
A customer asked me if it was possible to install Internet explorer 8 beta, and still be able to use Internet explorer 7 for old applications (in their test environment). Of course I answered and immediately started testing. As you all know Microsoft app-v does not support sequencing internet explorer so the best thing to do was use VMware’s Thinapp. My base image is an Windows XP SP3 machine, SP3 does not install IE7 or IE7 updates unless you already installed IE7 before upgrading to SP3 (see Microsoft KB) To successfully sequence IE7 to work together with IE8 download the following files:
• WindowsXP-KB957095-x86-ENU
• WindowsXP-KB958644-x86-ENU
• Nlsdl.exe (microsoft)
• idndl.exe (microsoft)
• IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe
These downloads will definitely save you some time finding out exactly witch updates you need, after this the Thinapp part is pretty straight forward.
• Install updates
• Start capture
• Install IE7
• Stop capture
• Revert machine
• Install IE8
• Start the tests 
Because this is a fast proof of concept test, I challenge you to drop some improvements in the comments to make it even better.
December 7th, 2009 - 03:40
Internet Explorer 8 seems to be better than any previous version of IE. IE8 is very stable and rarely crashes or cause blue screens.
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February 10th, 2010 - 22:10
This doesnt work for me. I’m starting with IE6 and running a capture during the IE7 upgrade. I’ve tried full isolation and merged isolation modes for the capture build. After I upgrade the machine to IE8, or use any machine where IE8 is installed, if I run the captured package executable, it opens, but if you try and type in any field, like google.com, it doesnt work. I cant type in any fields with my IE7 package….am I missing something??