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While not free, another option that will take up significantly less space is installing VMWare with Windows 7, then then installing IETester. This is also nice because you only have to run one virtual machine "allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE10 preview, IE9, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process."

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

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"...this is an alpha release..." Not exactly what you want to hear when you're testing... I already have enough problems trying to run an actual version of IE6 on Virtualbox

IETester has been in alpha forever. Not sure if it's because of lack of commitment from the developer or what, but it's very buggy and always has been.

I've run into some odd quirks with IETester and similar tools where they don't run exactly like their actual brethren. It's probably fine for the 95% case, but that other 5% can be infuriating. It usually manifests itself as the page working fine in IETester and your customer being adamant it's broken in IE 8 (or whatever).

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