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| 586505 | 2007-08-30 23:50:00 | If I use this program, I assume that it runs within my existing Windows XP Pro session. Is my existing Windows install at risk at all if anything goes wrong? Any tips and hints would be helpful. Cheers |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 586506 | 2007-08-31 00:16:00 | Yes it is a totally seperate "virtual PC". If it crashes, your host OS (Windows XP Pro) will be uneffected. (unaffected??) That's the beauty of the Virtual Machines. You can even move it to another PC and it will run exactly the same as it is hardware independant. It just makes one big file on your hosts hard drive which contains the virtual machine. |
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| 586507 | 2007-08-31 05:58:00 | it's an excellent program and it WILL run on winxp home as well tho it tells you it's 'not a supported operating system' I have it on my xp home now.....I have win95/98/me/2k/xp on it and can call them up in seconds if I need......you assign whatever amount of ram and hdd space you want to the installations so you need a bit of ram to spare.....i've assigned 300mb to my xp and 2k systems and that comes out of my 'real' ram ...........I have 1gb so that is just enuf nicely........and no as far as I can tell nothing can really affect your pc...... this might help you: arcanecode.wordpress.com |
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| 586508 | 2007-08-31 09:09:00 | I've been using it for a while, and I would strongly recommend it. You can wreck havoc in the guest OS without it doing any harm to your existing WinXP installation. If you install "Virtual Machine Additions", it makes it incredibly user friendly in terms of moving your mouse between guest and host OSes, transfering files between OSes by just dragging and dropping etc. This only works with Windows "guests". |
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