Some experience with Windows when consulting for a few Cyber Station sites.
A. PARTITION HDD
B. REPLACE IE ON XP
by FireFox or Chrome.
1/ Download Firefox/Chrome and some plugins (JRE, FlashPlayer, IETab)
2/ Install Flash Player
3/ Install JRE
4/ Install Firefox/Chrome
5/ Launch Firefox/Chrome, install IETab and configure it
6/ Restart Firefox/Chrome, customize it (homepage, download, more plugins)
7/ Hide IE icon from desktop
8/ Change IE icon in QuickLaunch bar to launch Firefox (but still use IE picture)
9/ (rename the icon title to "Browser" and) Copy that "fake" icon to Desktop
Done !
Bye bye IE 6 :-)
Recently tested:
* Firefox 2.0.20 + FlashPlayer 10.0.22 + JRE 1.6.0_07 ( + IETab 1.3)
* Firefox 3.5.2 + FlashPlayer 10.0.45 + JRE 1.6.0_15 ( + IETab 1.5)
* Chrome 4.x + FlashPlayer 10.0.45 + JRE 1.6.0_15 ( + IETab for Chrome)