Hi John:
Not knowing anything about either dual booting or Virtual PC 2007 it looks
as if Virtual PC 2007 would be much simpler to accomplish, as I assume that
you do not have to do anything to partition HD's. Looks as if you could
download and install Virtual PC 2007 and you would be ready to upgrade to
Vista or am I missing something? If this is the case why would anyone want
to do otherwise?
What are some of the Pro's and Con's of Virtual PC 2007 and also can you
use the work around to use the Vista Premium upgrade version rather than
full version? Can you at some point uninstall either XP or Vista at a later
date?
I would like to be able to upgrade to Vista in the simplest manner while
retaining XP MCE because of the many application problems, as described.
Thanks
"John Barnett MVP" <freelanceit@mvps.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> Dual booting does solve some of the many compatibility issues between
> software that runs on XP but doesn't currently run on Vista. I have at
> least half a dozen applications that simply will not run on Vista and
> until the software developer's update the software to run on Vista it is
> necessary for me to dual boot.
>
> Dual booting also has another point in its favour. If one operating system
> fails, you have another one which you can boot into quickly thus resulting
> in less downtime.
>
> Of course dual booting XP and Vista does have its downside. For one if you
> boot into XP then you loose all system restore points in Vista. So before
> even considering a dual boot scenario with XP and Vista always make sure
> you have the option to backup both operating systems just in case of a
> system failure and you need to restore Vista.
>
> But then if you do need to use two operating systems and you don't like
> the idea of a dual boot scenario, you could always use virtual machine
> software, such as Virtual PC 2007 or VMWare workstation.
>
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> "ColTom2" <nomailaddress@none.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi:
>>
>> Why would or what advantage is it to upgrade to Vista Premium with dual
>> booting capabilities? If one is going to upgrade then why not just
>> upgrade.
>>
>> Frankly I don't see the purpose or advantage of dual booting other than
>> making you OS more complicated. Maybe someone can explain why?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>