Darth_mel 1st Gear July 19, 2009 Share July 19, 2009 I download and test drive the Windows 7. It's gui does not appeal to me. I just spent a couple of minutes moving about, then decide I like the XP better. So I tried to remove the Windows 7 and it left behind a bootmgr which I had trouble removing. Finally, I did remove that stupid boot manager totally. The control panel is better than Vista but still nowhere near the simplicity of XP. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear July 19, 2009 Author Share July 19, 2009 I download and test drive the Windows 7. It's gui does not appeal to me. I just spent a couple of minutes moving about, then decide I like the XP better. So I tried to remove the Windows 7 and it left behind a bootmgr which I had trouble removing. Finally, I did remove that stupid boot manager totally. Full reformat of the harddisk can't get it erased meh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfenstar 3rd Gear July 19, 2009 Share July 19, 2009 I don't care ... as long as it works ...... Well there's your answer. It was FF. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kb27 Supersonic July 19, 2009 Share July 19, 2009 Full reformat of the harddisk can't get it erased meh? I install Windows 7 on another hardisk as I want to keep my existing XP intact. Then I change boot in bios to that hardisk. After playing with it, I decide to format that hardisk with Win 7. Unfortunately, that Win 7 write something into my original XP hardisk. I couldn't figure out at first. It keeps asking me to choose between Win 7 and XP during boot up, even though I had remove Win 7. Later, I found out that I had to do a rescue using XP installation disk...fixboot. Still I could not remove the boot folder, and bootmgr files left behind. I believe this started with Vista and brought forward to Win 7. Finally, after more googling, changing permissions and so forth, I managed to totally removed Win 7, I think. Still, I have a weird problem now in my XP that never happened before. Sometimes the desktop scheme went to Windows Modified, whereas I always used Windows Classic. So yeah, Win 7 will tend to mess up XP as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotz Neutral Newbie July 19, 2009 Share July 19, 2009 Anybody got solution for this? Have tried both 64bit and 32bit Windows browsers? So far my Children are playing all their games installed in Windows XP. Fire fox is working perfectly too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear July 20, 2009 Author Share July 20, 2009 Have tried both 64bit and 32bit Windows browsers? So far my Children are playing all their games installed in Windows XP. Fire fox is working perfectly too. It's working fine now .... but then ... I got no time to play liao. [laugh] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear July 31, 2009 Author Share July 31, 2009 Have tried both 64bit and 32bit Windows browsers? So far my Children are playing all their games installed in Windows XP. Fire fox is working perfectly too. Nop .... no 64bit machine to try. How about you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear July 31, 2009 Author Share July 31, 2009 I install Windows 7 on another hardisk as I want to keep my existing XP intact. Then I change boot in bios to that hardisk. After playing with it, I decide to format that hardisk with Win 7. Unfortunately, that Win 7 write something into my original XP hardisk. I couldn't figure out at first. It keeps asking me to choose between Win 7 and XP during boot up, even though I had remove Win 7. Later, I found out that I had to do a rescue using XP installation disk...fixboot. Still I could not remove the boot folder, and bootmgr files left behind. I believe this started with Vista and brought forward to Win 7. Finally, after more googling, changing permissions and so forth, I managed to totally removed Win 7, I think. Still, I have a weird problem now in my XP that never happened before. Sometimes the desktop scheme went to Windows Modified, whereas I always used Windows Classic. So yeah, Win 7 will tend to mess up XP as well. Now I wanna try Windows 7 on my Desktop .... What if I were to disconnect my XP harddisk ..... then install Windows 7 .... I guess I will not have the same problem as you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbon Neutral Newbie August 1, 2009 Share August 1, 2009 will software/drivers that works in xp/vista work in windows 7? hate switching then this that cannot work.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Author Share August 1, 2009 will software/drivers that works in xp/vista work in windows 7? hate switching then this that cannot work.. Think Windows 7 has most of the drivers needed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithunk 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Share August 1, 2009 okay i got the ISO file but havent used install it yet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithunk 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Share August 1, 2009 hey u guys can use a virtual machine if u guys want to test out a new OS.... i have redhat linux suse linux the old windows 3.1 and windows 98..... virtual machine are good and they wont affect yr current OS setup Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithunk 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Share August 1, 2009 System virtual machines (sometimes called hardware virtual machines) allow the sharing of the underlying physical machine resources between different virtual machines, each running its own operating system. The software layer providing the virtualization is called a virtual machine monitor or hypervisor. A hypervisor can run on bare hardware (Type 1 or native VM) or on top of an operating system (Type 2 or hosted VM). The main advantages of system VMs are: * multiple OS environments can co-exist on the same computer, in strong isolation from each other * the virtual machine can provide an instruction set architecture (ISA) that is somewhat different from that of the real machine * application provisioning, maintenance, high availability and disaster recovery[2] Multiple VMs each running their own operating system (called guest operating system) are frequently used in server consolidation, where different services that used to run on individual machines in order to avoid interference are instead run in separate VMs on the same physical machine. This use is frequently called quality-of-service isolation (QoS isolation). The desire to run multiple operating systems was the original motivation for virtual machines, as it allowed time-sharing a single computer between several single-tasking OSes. This technique requires a process to share the CPU resources between guest operating systems and memory virtualization to share the memory on the host. The guest OSes do not have to be all the same, making it possible to run different OSes on the same computer (e.g., Microsoft Windows and Linux, or older versions of an OS in order to support software that has not yet been ported to the latest version). The use of virtual machines to support different guest OSes is becoming popular in embedded systems; a typical use is to support a real-time operating system at the same time as a high-level OS such as Linux or Windows. my site has more tips and tricks jus do a search on my id in google Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithunk 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Share August 1, 2009 and you got to buy the software from this site http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ i think the desktop edition will do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clemenzo 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Share August 1, 2009 Use opensource VM.. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Supports Windows 7 now.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Author Share August 1, 2009 okay i got the ISO file but havent used install it yet So what are you waiting for? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Author Share August 1, 2009 hey u guys can use a virtual machine if u guys want to test out a new OS.... i have redhat linux suse linux the old windows 3.1 and windows 98..... virtual machine are good and they wont affect yr current OS setup What Virtual Machine? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithunk 1st Gear August 1, 2009 Share August 1, 2009 its a piece of software that will allow you to install operating systems without affecting yr current OS setup.... basically the software will emulate yr current system specs.....and you can use the VM VMs makes use of VM images....its basically a very big file.... u can also adjust settings like RAM hardisk space... bro it take some time to explain in detail la.....but once u know it it should be quite fast.... ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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