Re: Better performance: Vista w/4gb RAM or XP w/3GB RAM

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Hi Don

I asked a question about whether there were any problems dual booting XP and
Vista in the UK MVP newsgroup recently, and Mike Maltby posted this
response .....

I've set up several systems to dual boot Vista and XP including a new Sony
Vaio SZ4MN/B laptop that came with Vista Business pre-installed. In my
case I use BING (www.bootitng.com) as the boot manager thus ensuring that
I don't have any part of another OS installed on another OS's partition.

Due to XP's system restore conflicting with shadow copy in Vista it is
essential to hide each OS partition from each other sharing only data
partitions and to have system restore only enabled on the system drives.
I go even further and using BING remove the second OS partition info from
the partition table when booting the first OS (and vice versa).

and in a follow up posting .....
BING is far more than just a boot manager and is an excellent partition
manager including partition imaging and highly recommended by many of the
Windows desktop MVPs

By the way, congratulations on the MVP award.

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Regards
Roger Govier



"Don Guillett" <dguillett1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an HP with a 6300 and Vista Home Premium & 2GB and it works well for
me. This particular machine makes it very simple to add 2 more as it has 2
open slots. So, it's just plug em in. No need so far. I am still using
xl2003 but will load 2007 soon. I suggest keeping both versions in separate
folders.

I have problems running the xl95 & xl97 on the Vista machine even tho I
installed in order.
Although I'm not quite sure how to do this, I may partition my 320 hd into
dual boot xp & vista, putting the older versions on the xp partition.

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software
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I use Excel for operations and financial modeling; my spreadsheets are
large and have many named ranges, lookups and array functions. I'm
currently using a Pentium M 1.2 machine with XP and 2GB of RAM, and
it's barely adequate for the work.

So I'm getting ready to buy a Lenovo with a Core 2 Duo T7500, which
will be a big improvement. I'm also planning on switching from XL 2003
to XL 2007 (for bigger worksheets). But would I be better off with XP
(which maxes out at 3GB of RAM) or Vista (which can go to 4GB)?

Anyone here know?

Thanks




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