Re: [OT] Vista expert needed !!!

["Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

You could always look at virtualisation, something like VMWare and
install your XP on that ...

That's what I do at work for all the various OS's and I use Parallels
on my Mac to work the same way at home too ...

On Jan 4, 2008 10:36 PM, Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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