twinriver1 said:
I am using Vista Home Premium. I understand that this Vista does not allow
dual boot.
That's utter nonsense.
The older OS should be installed first; otherwise, you'll have
trouble creating a dual-boot scenario without using 3rd-party products.
However, dual-booting is no longer necessary in most situations.
Why not download a Virtual Machine application, such as Microsoft's
VirtualPC 2007 (
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp?) or
Innotek's VirtualBox (
http://www.virtualbox.org/) and run WinXP and your
legacy applications within a virtual computer. Both are free and work
with Vista. (Microsoft does not support the use of VirtualPC 2007 on
Vista Home editions, but several people have reported that it works just
fine.)
I am considering upgrate to Ultimat.
Your choice, but you might want to think about having a real reason for
doing do before you incur an unnecessary expense.
I have two questions:
1. When I upgrade, sould I jut pop-in the cd/dvd and let the Ultimat do the
upgrade or should I wipe out the hard drive and do a clean install?
The in-place upgrade would be the simplest and quickest method.
2. I also downloaded the Virtual PC. Should I use the program to install XP
or just directly install it in Ultimat?
That makes no sense. While VirtualPC can be installed in Vista, WinXP
certainly cannot.
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