Comments on: Don’t Dual Boot! Use Virtual PC 2007 Instead

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:58:41 +0000

I just downloaded VPC 2007 on my HP computer. I heard that it’s great. I have no clue how to get it to work though. I think it’s because my OS is Vista home basic. What do I do?

By: Shelby

Shelby — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:07:50 +0000

I just want to know where I can go, either by phone or email to get rid of the HP Registration pop-up that I keep getting on my computer every night at 9pm and I don’t even have an HP Computer.

By: todd

todd — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:21:03 +0000

I checked with the Virtual Machines MVPs and was told that while the Virtual PC installer gives a support warning when installing on Vista Home Basic or Premium Edition, it does work.

By: Edgar Romberg

Edgar Romberg — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:19:18 +0000

Your advice to try MS Virtual PC 2007 is a good idea; I immediately went to the MS web site, read that the new version works with Vista (why is this good? are people unhappy with Vista?) and downloaded the usual umpty-ump megabytes; excitedly clicked on the setup.exe icon (same name as used by my previous big download of cygwin) only to be told that my Vista OS is not supported! The fine print mentions numerious Vista Enterprise versions, but not the humble Vista Home edition which I seem to have.
The remaining question is: if I blow away MS Vista while making a partition error in trying to load Linux, will the never ending infernal HP Registration pop-up window go away, or will it re-appear?