Hi, IT professionals get an income!!! you have checked with your IT (do they really pay them?) guys. I doubt if virtual PC would be a choice, tried compatibility mode? If you want to dual boot then it isn't such a big deal just need someone to walk you through it, some good web sites for this. I have Vista\XP dual booted on this computer. Post back and do not proceed until someone from here tells you how to go about it.. if I am around I will.

 

Our IT folks tell me that they only officially support employees using XP at home. I do have a "work laptop" which I can bring home, but part of my objective here is to not have to do so any more. The other rub at the moment is that the parent corporation, in anticipation of a sales slump due to the downturn, has sharply curtailed the number of employees in all departments except those actively selling, manufacturing, or designing products....so, IT is scant on personnel at this time.

In this case, what I do is to use Explorer to navigate to my employer's portal website, then I enter my user name and password. The next screen that shows in IE contains the error message. The app suite is "Aventail access manager", and as far as I know, it does not exist as an executable on my HD, but rather is somehow scripted on the fly as a DL to Explorer, possibly using ActiveX. So, would I go about "compatibility mode" in this case by having a second instance of IE on the HD, and run that in compatibility mode?

 

partition ur hdd, install xp. use xp at work, vista at home

 

based on your options, this is the best solution


or if that is no longer an option then

for dual booting see this

 

sobeit, that method of dual-boot install won't work for me. This is a consumer-grade computer. It came without any "Vista DVD", so I can't exactly load DISKPART from the non-existent DVD. The manufacturer refuses to supply a DVD and tells me "go buy a retail package". Lots of $$$.

Now, if there were a way of creating a DVD from the existing install, that'd be great. Something officially supported by MS in terms of legality of course.

I'm not a computer hack...I have managed my own systems so far, but dual-booting would be rather a step past where I've been to date. I am fairly hardware-conversant; replacing an HDD for instance, is a piece of cake. I'm an analogue hardware designer by trade, so that part's easy for me.

Anyway, is there a reputable link to how to install a dual-boot system, when one does not own the Vista x64 DVD? I do have a "virgin" XP Home disk.

 

you have to hide the vista partition whilst you install xp
i think they use gparted or bootmagic to do the deed
some one who knows the method will probably post