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From: idgat on 8 Jul 2010 06:52
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 20:40:58 +1000, SolomonW <SolomonW(a)nospamMail.com>
wrote:

>I have a good computer with XP and plenty of programs installed which I
>want to keep. However I want windows 7 on that computer.
>
>What I was thinking of doing was getting a new hard disk and put on to it
>windows 7. Then when I start up the computer, I could go into the bios and
>change which drive is the startup. This is, however, a messy solution, is
>there some dual boot program, I could use so when the machine starts up it
>asks which drive do I boot up from?

Dual/Multi-boot is s-o-o-o-o yesterday.

Microsoft's VirtualMachine
or
VirtualBox from Sun/Oracle

Got one of each on 2 machines - p-u-u-u-r-r-r-fect!!!
Prefer VM, but has to be W7 Professional or higher (i.e. not Home),
but VirtualBox works on all.
--
idgat
Compuglobalhypermeganet Inc.
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