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Thanks Malke, I WAS trying to setup XP from within Vista.
The other stuff about discs came from another well meaning person. but I
couldn't get it to work as my computer threw up differend dialogue windows
and messages so it took quite some time to sort it out.
I managed to shove Vista over and create another partition adn successfuly
install XP there giving me the option to choose which OS to use upon boot-up.
But that isn't what I really wanted.
That which I did discover in the process, is that if one has an earlier
version of Windows installed, the Vista OEM set-up procedure affords the
opportunity to keep the old version of windows and swallows it up. A Windows
Explorer tree search, will show alphabetically, Windows then Windows old.
This a curious thing for MS to allow.
Using this method, I am hoping that my XP progs can be run from within
Vista, which would be just the trick. Whether this is actually possible
remains to be seen.
The other stuff about discs came from another well meaning person. but I
couldn't get it to work as my computer threw up differend dialogue windows
and messages so it took quite some time to sort it out.
I managed to shove Vista over and create another partition adn successfuly
install XP there giving me the option to choose which OS to use upon boot-up.
But that isn't what I really wanted.
That which I did discover in the process, is that if one has an earlier
version of Windows installed, the Vista OEM set-up procedure affords the
opportunity to keep the old version of windows and swallows it up. A Windows
Explorer tree search, will show alphabetically, Windows then Windows old.
This a curious thing for MS to allow.
Using this method, I am hoping that my XP progs can be run from within
Vista, which would be just the trick. Whether this is actually possible
remains to be seen.