Installing Vista on two seperate partitions

[Guest]

I have Vista Ultimate 64-bit installed and working. When I did the
installation, I set aside 100 GB in a seperate volume. I am thinking about
installing Vista again in that partition in order to have Messenger IM only
on one of them for my own privacy reasons. I hate everyone in the universe
knowing the instant I fire up my PC. Does anyone have any imput in this
regard? and, Will microsoft let me even use the same disk to install again
even though it is on the same pc? Any imput will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Tiberius]

Just FYI,
according to Microsoft you need 2 separate licenses (copies of vista or
product keys) in order to have 2 functional copies
of vista on the same computer even if you are not running both of them at
the same time....

Now how will they know? That's another thing...

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi Cit--

You can stop messenger from starting when you fire up your PC easily, and
the only people who would konw anyway would be those you voluntarily either
put on your list or agreed to their putting you on their list.

You can block all of them at any time.

You can also use msconfig's startup tab:

Just click Start, Run..., then enter 'msconfig' into the box. Then, once the
System Configuration Utility pops up, click the Startup tab and uncheck
'msmsgs'. Click apply and that's it! Reboot your system

CH

 

[Richard Urban]

Just change the messenger options. It does NOT have to startup whenever you
boot Windows. That is a default that can be changed. Go to tools | options |
general and deselect the option.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Rock]

I have Vista Ultimate 64-bit installed and working. When I did the
installation, I set aside 100 GB in a seperate volume. I am thinking about
installing Vista again in that partition in order to have Messenger IM
only
on one of them for my own privacy reasons. I hate everyone in the
universe
knowing the instant I fire up my PC. Does anyone have any imput in this
regard? and, Will microsoft let me even use the same disk to install again
even though it is on the same pc? Any imput will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

You don't need to do that, as others have posted. And to install a second
copy you need two licenses. It's one license per installation.