In message , Patti Barden
writes:
OK, I am getting W7 Ultimate. My friend is building me a new computer.
I have just looked at my husband's lap top (Home addition) which
has the Windows Easy Transfer for transferring from WXP.

WET transfers data, and to some extent prog. _settings_; you still have
to install the prog.s themselves on the new computer.

Does anyone know if by using this Easy Transfer Wizard from an XP
computer to a W7 Ultimate computer I will be creating a "Dual Boot"
for both?

I'm pretty sure the WETWiz doesn't create a dual boot; it is really
intended to make the migration process easier. (Migration meaning
transitioning to using a new system, probably with a new Windows
version.)

I am confused about "virtualization manager" someone mentioned.
The Easy Transfer program does not mention partitions? Will I be able to run

ET certainly isn't a partition manager.

XP just like any other program? Just don't understand what I will
wind up with.
Thank you.

Virtualisation, or a virtual machine, is a way of simulating a whole PC
- complete with whatever operating system you care to put on it. As
such, yes, it's a bit like running XP (if that's the OS you put on your
VM) as a program.



"Patti Barden" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I run Xp on my old computer. I am getting a new computer and I'm going to
install W7 on it. I have
been told you can run both XP and W7 on the same computer?

Any advice?
Thanks in advance. Patti



Well, there are (at least) two ways of doing that. One is dual boot -
you select at boot time which operating system you're going to load. You
are then stuck in that OS until you next boot. The two OSs (only one of
which you can run at once) can share drives/data (though be careful not
to alter any files other than data).

The other is virtualisation: with that, you simulate a whole PC,
including installing an operating system on it. In this, the simulation
runs as a program under the (usually later) OS. I think the top version
of Windows 7 includes an XP licence.

A third way is "mode": some versions of some editions of Windows can
"pretend" to run as if earlier ones, or rather can have certain software
run "in XP mode" for example; this sometimes allows you to use (say) XP
versions of software under (say) Vista or 7. How well this works varies.
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