have a computer with Vista as it's primary, but would rather have XP as it
runs faster (I believe) and I am more familiar with it, but I don't want to
get rid of Vista...is there a way for me to have a "choose operating system"
option pop up each time I turn on the computer? Vista and XP use different
startup files and I didn't know how to properly edit Vista's startup as it
wasn't user friendly like XP's was...anyway to get it to work?

"backagain" <backagain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:552A0C65-0EFB-4DF9-9223-51D2F482BA75@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> have a computer with Vista as it's primary, but would rather have XP as it
> runs faster (I believe) and I am more familiar with it, but I don't want
> to
> get rid of Vista...is there a way for me to have a "choose operating
> system"
> option pop up each time I turn on the computer?[/color]

Yup. It's called "dual booting," and you'll see lots of references to that
in this newsgroup.
Please clarify: Do you now have both XP and Vista already installed on your
computer? If so, how did you get there? Did you install Vista on top of an
XP installation?

"backagain" <backagain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:552A0C65-0EFB-4DF9-9223-51D2F482BA75@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> have a computer with Vista as it's primary, but would rather have XP as it
> runs faster (I believe) and I am more familiar with it, but I don't want
> to
> get rid of Vista...is there a way for me to have a "choose operating
> system"
> option pop up each time I turn on the computer? Vista and XP use
> different
> startup files and I didn't know how to properly edit Vista's startup as it
> wasn't user friendly like XP's was...anyway to get it to work?[/color]



The easiest way to do this is to use VistaBootPRO.

[url]http://www.vistabootpro.org/[/url]

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