Spirefm

To add to what Mark said. If you have a spare partition with at least 20GB
you can do a Clean Install of Vista to that partition. Then you would have a
dual-boot system and yes you could retain Norton on the XP partition and use
AVG on Vista.

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

>
> "Crazey Davey" <CrazeyDavey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CE6AE859-E108-4650-864F-E9C99D6CE9EE@microsoft.com...
> > If i am planning to upgrade windows xp to windows vista will i be able to
> > have norton antivrius on windows xp and the vista compatible AVG on
> > windows
> > vista or will i have to remove norton to allow AVG to work.
> >
> > Also after i have installed Vista, each time i start my computer will i
> > have
> > the choice to boot vista or xp?
> >
> > Help greatly appreciated thanks.
>
> If you "upgrade windows xp to windows vista" you will no longer have Windows
> XP, so the answers to your questions are, not relevant and no, respectively.
> Additionally, you will have to remove Norton and any other program from XP
> before you upgrade to Vista.
>
> As a caution, Vista in any of its current versions is not meant for a
> computer you rely upon because it is not a final product, still has some
> quirks and bugs, has no official support from Microsoft, many hardware
> manufacturers and software vendors products will not work with Vista and it
> will stop working after the end of May, 2007 with no chance of upgrading
> again to the retail product.
>
> Perhaps, if you want to test Vista RC's, you should do some research online
> and investigate "dual-boot" installations.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Mark
>
>
>