>Well, it looks like I may have to buy a new laptop because mine is dying. I can't seem to find any laptops I like without Vista installed. However, I have found a few models that are being sold as "Vista Business" with downgrade rights to XP but it seems I remember reading somewhere you should stay away from "Vista Business" (more so than just staying away from Vista period!). I assume that eventually I may want to use Vista by, right now, all of my development is in VFP9/VPME and my programs are always installed on either NT or XP machines so I really have no need for Vista.
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>So, I have a couple of questions:
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>1) Can a 32 bit Vista computer be made to dual boot to 32 bit XP?
>2) Can a 64 bit Vista computer be made to dual boot to 32 bit XP?
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>I tried installing a dual boot system years and years ago (probably back in the Win 95/98 days - I think the software was 'Commander' something or other) without much luck, has this exerpience improved? Does this effort still require a 3rd party software our can the Win operating system handle this now? Likewise, if you have had experience with this, could you out line the basic steps of what is involved in converting a machine to dual boot.
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>Thanks,
>Robert
I have a new computer that also came with Vista. When I found I couldn't safely remove it. I installed VMware Workstation and created a virtual machine with XP installed. Weird thing, the virtual machine ran many things faster than Vista even though Workstation was running on top of Vista. Every now and then the computer would slow to a crawl, but after I upgraded the RAM from 1 to 2 GB, that problem went away. Vista needs ram for all the stuff it does in background. I can create many virtual machines running different applications and OS's. They don't interfere with each other, there's no partitioning. To Vista they are just files and when running they are just another application.