Re: [OT] Vista expert needed !!!

["James Crossley" <jimmyc1163@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Keith,

First hit on google should help you.

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp



On Jan 4, 2008 9:38 PM, Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Hi All,
>
> Following a disaster over Christmas when my faithful old laptop
trashed
> the
> registry and forced a complete rebuild, I have decided that the time
has
> come to buy a shiny new laptop.
>
> Now the crunch..... Everything now comes with Vista of which I have
very
> little knowledge but some searching for info on the programs that I
use
> the
> most reveals that all of my most used programs have problems with
Vista :(
>
> From the laptops I hve looked at so far, most seem to have the hard
drive
> as
> one massive partition, what I want to know is....
>
> 1. it is possible to shrink the size of the Vista partition from Vista
> itself and create another partition without having to trash the
laptop.
>
> 2. if that is possible, can I then install XP Pro on second partition
and
> have a dual boot system.
>
> I have just managed to make a desktop machine XP Pro/Vista so that I
can
> familiarise myself a bit more with Vista but am wondering how to get
XP as
> the second OS installed when Vista is already present.
>
> 3. From what I have read so far, even though IIS can be installed on
> Vista,
> Home Premium will only alow 3 simultaneous connections which isnt
> sufficient
> for what I want to do :(
>
> Its bad enough that I occasionally hit the connection limit on XP Pro
at
> the
> moment.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Keith
>
>
>


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