vista & xp

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I have purchased a Vista Home Pr. installed laptop recently. But i can not
use some of my programs i used previously on my old pc. I want to install XP
again & use vista and xp simultaneously. How shall i do this?
 
list the programs you cannot use on Vista. and someone will post fixes......
.....its easier than explaining to you how to create a dual boot especially
on an unknown laptop.
peter
 
Mithat Güzel said:
I have purchased a Vista Home Pr. installed laptop recently. But i can not
use some of my programs i used previously on my old pc. I want to install
XP
again & use vista and xp simultaneously. How shall i do this?
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Your post is not clear.
1) Did the laptop come with Vista Home pre installed on the laptop or did
you install Vista Home Premium as an upgrade to the previously installed XP
(how else could you install it again)? Or maybe there is some other
situation?

2) Have you installed "some of your programs" and found out through
experience that they don't work properly or have you read that they might
not work properly and won't install them until you have an answer?

If you have a foolproof way (like restoration of a disk image) that you have
already tested, to get back to the original state, then you can experiment
with the older programs. Try installing them in compatibility mode, or
installing them with elevated privileges, and running them with elevated
privileges. And just because you find a way that seems to work doesn't
guarantee that the software hasn't violated something that will cause you
problems when you install some other Vista or non-Vista software later on.

You might try using Microsoft's free virtual PC to run WXP within Vista.

Depending on how big your hard drive is and your planned usage for it, you
might be able to partition the drive and set up a dual boot system. This
also has its drawbacks.

-Paul Randall
 
Thanks.
1) My laptop came with vista readily installed. i did not do any upgrading
from xp.
2)My programs worked correctly on my previous pc which had an xp installed
on it.
for example; i have an interactive photograhy training cd set and i can not
run it on vista. it says "out of memory". (I have 1 GB RAM, on my old pc i
had only 32 mb of RAM and correctly run the cd set)

As far as i have searched the web running on 2 OS may solve the problem. Am
i wrong? Is it useless?
 
First, you cannot run 2 operating systems simultaneously on one PC.
Depending on how you got your XP license you may be able to run it in a
virtual machine on your Vista OS. Where did you get your copy of XP?
 
Some 'training' cds automatically install a program which then accesses the
rest of the CD to do its training thing. The next time you insert the CD,
it finds the software already installed and immediately starts running. You
might play with it on your XP system and see if you can find a way to
uninstall that software. Then go to your Vista system and see if you can
uninstall it there. Then you might try finding the installation program
(typically setup.exe) and attempt to install it in XP compatibility mode, or
with elevated privileges, or both. If the CD was designed for W98, you
might want to try a W98 compatibility mode.

Also, some older software was written before people even imagined home
computers with 1 GB of RAM. When this old software calculates the amount of
free memory, it miscalculates due to not knowing how to handle the big
numbers it finds.

The virtual PC option might work for you.

-Paul Randall
 
On the setup.exe of that training program, right-click on it and try "Run as
Admin"

The other thing to try, is right-click on it, select properties, then
compatibility. If it worked on XP, install it in XP SP2 mode.
 
,;I have purchased a Vista Home Pr. installed laptop recently. But i can not
,;use some of my programs i used previously on my old pc. I want to install XP
,;again & use vista and xp simultaneously. How shall i do this?
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The only way I know to do this is with a virtual PC. You will be able
to switch OS without rebooting. If you dual boot you will need to
shutdown and reboot every time you switch OS. If you dual boot you can
not run two OS simultaneously and you will have some other issues with
XP snuggled up to Vista.

Get Virtual PC and install XP on the virtual computer.

There are some license issues you will need to deal with. XP on a
virtual PC should be a legitimate copy of XP that is not also
installed on a second computer. That creates an ethics problem that
you should consider.
 
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