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[nonelvis]

I have just finished installing Parallels Desktop and Windows XP on my Mac. I can't even begin to express how weird it is to be typing in iChat or Safari while seeing the XP interface lurking in a window below.

On the other hand, once I got the right version of Parallels installed, Windows installed easily, and Windows Update is merrily chugging away in the background downloading ... something. PC folks: do I want SP3, or will it make me hate life? Pretty much all I need to do with Windows is look at web pages I am building, so as long as my version of Windows is running the correct security updates, I think I'm all set.

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[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

And one more thing: if you plan to use both IE6 as well as IE7 (and I assume you do, for webpage testing), you'll need to install IE6 BEFORE applying SP3. Apparently XP SP3 will only install IE7 and higher, but it won't disturb any previous installation of IE6.

[nonelvis]

I didn't think it was even possible to run IE6 and IE7 on the same Windows install! But in any case, I still have the sturdy old Win2K machine running IE6, so I still have access to both browsers.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Yup, when IE7 was still in beta they let people run both and AFAIK left that ability. But I was slightly mistaken: XP SP3 only removes the ability to Uninstall IE7. More here (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/05/05/ie-and-xpsp3.aspx).

[nonelvis]

Good lord, maybe they could make this more complicated? "If you installed X, then you can't install Y, unless you took SP Foobar, in which case you can install Z on alternate Tuesdays but only uninstall it if the moon is full."