Internet Explorer 8 Para Windows Xp
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There is a microsoft fix it you can download which cleans up after failed updates (why is this not done automatically by windows update??) and after running it, restarting in safe mode with networking, and installing it directly from a standalone installer, ie9 "installs", but if you run it and click on "help > about" it says its IE8, and then at some point after the computer gets BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) and when it restarts, poof! Its IE8 again.
Astonishingly (i.e after trying so many different other suggested fixes) the approved answer fixed my problem installing IE9, but not IE10, so I tried changing the 9 in the command to a 10, and after that (without even a restart), the IE10 standalone installer suddenly worked.
XP Mode is actually Microsoft's PC Emulation software "Virtual PC" complete with a full and fully LICENCED version of Windows XP already installed and set up. The purpose of XP Mode is to provide an inconvenient (yes, I mean inconvenient) way for people to run old 16 bit and incompatible 32 bit programs while encouraging them to "upgrade" away from perfectly good software (especially command line software) and force them buy new 64 bit stuff. (With this one move, Microsoft eliminates 30 years of software they find undercuts DRM, and their vision for, and control of Windows.)
It's a bit of a memory hog, can take a while to launch, and tries to install itself to run in the background, but right click and close the icon in the taskbar a couple times and it'll stop doing that.
One really nice thing about it is that you can setup several different machines with different stuff installed on each one, without it using up all the drive space that installing separate OS's would. Plus, if you hose one, you can delete it's .vsv file and be back to a working copy, minus whatever you did to hose it (unless you made a change to the os and rebooted to a hosed os.)
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