>>>I setup Vista to dual boot with XP. The Vista install program handled everything for more.
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>>>>No, Virtual PC is different... You run a machine inside your machine. For example, on your Win2003 machine you could have another window that is running Vista.
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>>>>I haven't done any dual booting with the newer OS'es, but with XP and 2K you needed to modify the boot.ini file to be able to select the OS on startup.
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>>Didn't Peter install Vista before 2003? That might be causing the problem, as I believe you are supposed to install the newest operating system last.
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>>I really need to get a copy of Vista. I am starting to feel left out. My dad wants to get a new laptop, but all we can find are laptops with Vista pre-installed. I haven't used it, so I don't know if I can help him out with it over the phone when he needs it.
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>Hi Mike.
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>Think you should go for it... First I installed Vista as a dual boot, in a machine tha had XPPro. And as Craig mentioned, just had to ask Vista to install in a second partition and watch.
>Kept that for a couple of months. Then I formated the HD and installed Vista on it alone. Afterwards, installed the Virtual PC 2007, which runs fine on Vista, and had a XPPro installed on it.
>In Vista, I have Fox26 (don't laugh), VFP9, and Visual Studio with all .NET stuff. They've been all living very well together.
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>Abraços.
Hello Yvan.
This one is out of topic a bit.
Your configuration looks a lot like mine (except I don't have Fox26). Do you have Windows Media Player 11 installed also? Are you able to watch .WMV videos on it?
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