>You can do the same thing with Windows Virtual PC (or whatever they're calling it now). And it's also free.
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>>Another advantage to using VMWare or VIrtualBox is you can create a base image and then keep this as your starting point for other images. Just copy the image (folder copy) to a new name and then open -- now you have a 'clean' environment to test your software in.
but it does not work with every software. Win 8 being one of those.

Peter