Do you have a Vista computer, and long for the good ol’ days of Windows XP? Maybe you have some old programs that won’t run under . Or perhaps you are just used to . Well, take heart. There are several things you can do. Ummm, well, two anyway. First, visit Microsoft’s Vista compatibility site to see if you can work out your problems. Go here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/

No luck? Then the other thing to do is run XP virtually, within Vista. To do this, you should have 2GB of RAM in the PC, and a fairly good processor. You will also need a legal copy of XP, and the original disks. Now download and install the free Virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Launch the program and click Action, New Virtual Machine Wizard. This will guide you through the installation of XP. You will be asked how much RAM you want to allocate to XP. The minimum should be 512MB. Go through the steps; it is similar to a regular XP installation, and will take about an hour.

Finally, you will probably want to install some extras, so you can move files between the two operating systems, which don’t forget are running simultaneously. Launch XP, and click Action, Install or Update Virtual Machine Additions.

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