RE: [OT] Vista expert needed !!!

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks James,

I guess the new machine will come with a recovery disk rather than a Vista
install disk so at least I will be able to put it back to factory condition
if it all goes pear shaped !!!

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James Crossley
Sent: 04 January 2008 21:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Vista expert needed !!!

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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