Dual booting

Willow — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:13:37 GMT

I hope you can offer me some advise on how to use a dual booted laptop. I've purchased an Acer Aspire 6930 which has Vista (think it's the home edition) but as this is a business machine and I am currently running XP Pro on my other laptop I decided to have XP installed and now have it dual booting. Now I've come to the point of installing programs back on it I'm not sure how it works using the two together. I understand that I have the choice of which OS system to use when it boots up but if I've installed the accounts package and Office 2003 in XP and have them open can I then open something I've installed in Vista such as our online scheduling system? I don't want to find that I'm having to log off and change systems all the time - if this is the case I will just install everything in XP. I would really have preferred an XP system but couldn't find one. I'm completely new to Vista and am unsure whether some of the applications I use will work.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks

Willow

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