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It has a lot to do with pressure from customers and a higher demand for XP than Vista. This is pretty much the only reason any OEM would do this.

it depends on what you're building. obviously if you are buying a 8800 dx10 graphics card, one that will last you a while, vista is an obvious must. No. When there is software that shows an actual improvement using DX10 then it'll be worth it to upgrade. Until then there's just no point...

Windows XP will play today's games better that stands to reason, but tomorrows games will be a different story specially when DX10 games go mainstream. When that actually happens there might be a reason to install Vista.

so why are so many people using it? Marketing. is it better for home theater stuff? Nope. Most people find the actual OS gui prettier, so there's that I suppose.

XP, not close at all. That might change in the future, but at the present time, there's no reason at all to go with Vista for a gaming machine.

You need to be a little more specific. Can you get to the bios? Or does the system not power up at all.

Home most likely doesn't support Remote Desktoping another computer. All versions of Vista support outgoing RDP connections. Vista Home Premium in theory won't act as an RDP server for incoming connections, but in reality requires a minor bit of legal hacking to function as one. It would be...

You know there is a quote button and a reply button instead of just the "Post Reply." I do know that.

This should not be an issue. Your boot.ini file is all that needs to be changed - no major re-partitioning required. You can even have the timer menu ask which one you want to boot into. Once in an OS, you can drag and drop data (pics, video, etc.) but you will have to install apps in one OS and...

You can do it, but it's kludgy. Do you need to be able to read files from the other OS disk when running in either one?

That's the stupidest thing I've heard all week. Give reading your own posts a shot. Anyway, I'm done with this topic. I don't argue religion when I can avoid it, and your unshakable faith that Vista's more secure than XP offers no reward for me changing it. My clients won't be deploying...

Iam trying the EasyBCD now , bur I have no idea what I should do after installing it Add/Remove Entries Tab to Add an Entry Tab to Windows Set Drop Down to Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 Change the drive letter to your XP install partition. Change the name to whatever you like, "Windows XP" is a good...

You need to configure the Vista bootloader to see the XP partition. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 is the easiest way in my opinion. You could do it manually but it'd be more of a pain. Good luck.

You can, but it violates the EULA. It won't deactivate XP. Good luck.

Then we would imagine our volume licensed software onto it. Man, that would save a lot of time. I wish I could do that. Spell check is funny.