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Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by aninteger on Friday September 02, 2011 @04:12PM (#2955417)
I know you aren't the creator of those VMs but, any idea why they are so big?

What's weird is that there's a jump from 8.4 GB to 13 GB on Windows 7. What is on the IE9 vhd that isn't on the IE8 vhd?

Edit: Nevermind, from the official link the IE9 vm comes with additional tools.

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Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by pointyhat on Friday September 02, 2011 @05:21PM (#2955653)
On Win7, the jump is due to WinSxS. Every DLL several times and several versions. DLL hell solved.
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Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by MarkSweep on Friday September 02, 2011 @10:40PM (#2956313)
DLL hell solved indeed. How many versions do you keep?

For what it's worth, the DLLs in System32 are projected out of WinSxS with hardlinks, so they should not take up extra space. You still have the multiple version thing, however that can be somewhat mitigated by making service packs permanent[1].

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15/how-to-...

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Re:Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with V... by pointyhat on Saturday September 03, 2011 @03:44AM (#2956792)
That quantity of hard links takes up quite a bit of space though!
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