Comments on: Dual Booting Windows XP with Windows Vista

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:33:32 +0000

Hi Mike. thanks for your comment about your experience with Windows Vista. I must agree with you that Vista does not work as advertised, as I experienced it myself this weekend upgrading my home computer from XP PRO to vista home premium. I know it was a stupid move,but I did it, and was a mess, I'm totally disappointed with vista.. I rolled back my desktop to XP and is working fine now. never again will try to upgrade the desktop to vista, in fact I'm putting the Vista Home Premium DVD in a contest on this blog.. so if you want to win it, subscribe to this blog to stay tune…..it worth 150 bucks..

By: mike

mike — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:08:21 +0000

Hi,

I bought a (this) nice ACER Aspire with a 3G core duo chip in it for $600 at WALMART last year. I usually build my own but I couldn't touch this, especially with the 19 wide screen monitor.

The downside is VISTA HOME PREMIUM. I took a chance – after going through 95, 98, 2K and basically juggling XP PRO with ease I am more than qualified to say this OS is hosed. I have used Macs, Unix, and DEC OSs as well. I don't know what MS had in mind other than their role towards a one world government.(Bill Gates-Illuminati?)

ACER put their proprietary crapware onboard as well and the only VISTA disc one gets is the backup prompted for during initial setup. I bought a VISTA license when I bought the OS, I should have a VISTA disc in case I need it. ACER claims the only form in which I get a disc was the backup – which includes the ACER crapware that proves to be a stumbling block between VISTA and myself. How many others are hampered by the "helpful" crapware included on the new machines they bought?

My real shock was reading the vast sea of literature that warn installation for dual booting of XP is almost impossible, even with two hard drives, when VISTA is installed. Is Vista architecture so far removed from what is WINDOWS?

I want to remove the HD in this ruination, install another and install/run XP PRO exclusively. What should have been a 60 day free trial with VISTA was over months ago. I should have been given the opportunity to downgrade at MS's expense.

Any that claim to enjoy VISTA and use it without problems have never owned a computer. Maybe a Mac.

The real insult from MS? 2K is probably their best OS – XP was just another service patch.

I have gotten in the neighborhood of 60 updates for VISTA in less than a year and each one makes it worse than it was to begin with.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:48:35 +0000

Hi duel boot going great on my laptop however I am only using Vista as a learning tool so is it possible to change the computer menu so that it will atomaticly go to XP 1st and then only go to vista if I want it to?

If so how?

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:16:05 +0000

Thanks for the Info Nick. I was wondering from where all this traffic was coming from, somehow google analytic was not picking it up.

a second hard drive will be better, that way you don't mess around with windows XP boot partition.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:13:43 +0000

Hi Nelson, Good article, will be trying it with a second hard drive. I found you through Windows Server 2003 Bulletin from e-media (www.emedia.co.uk).