Looking at the sizes here, I noticed something odd. I'll just post a chart here
| XP SP3 IE6 | 464.7 MB |
| XP SP3 IE7 | 560.8 MB |
| XP SP3 IE8 | 474.0 MB |
| Vista IE7 | 1990.5 MB (~1.9 GB) |
| Vista IE8 | 2138.5 MB (~ 2.1GB) |
So let's see, XP grows with IE7, then from there, shrinks with IE8! Almost to the IE6 size!!! WTC? And the increase for the IE8 upgrade on Vista... YIKES! With the XP bit, maybe it's a compression thing that happened. Somehow IE8's HD image compresses a little better than IE7 (Lack of the developer toolbar and script debugger installers may help. Not sure though) Oh, BTW, because of Windows 7, you need to (kinda) hunt down the version of Virtual PC that works in XP/Vista now. Tags: random info, tech, win_ie
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