TSGL: 3rd party drivers?

[Russell W. Coover]

I realize that a lot of folks are unhappy with Vista, but I am curious what
your purpose is for dual booting? Of course I am aware that XP remains the
best OS for gaming at present, and that some, just a few, applications don't
get along well with Vista, but those applications are becoming fewer and
fewer, and I doubt you run any of them, unless you refuse to upgrade to the
latest version. 

I run Vista on 3 computers, XP on a 4th, and 2000 on a 5th, so I have a bit
of experience with these machines. Almost any problem you have can be solved
by shutting off User Account Control (UAC) and doing one or both of the
following: 

Go to the Application's Properties Compatibilities Tab and Check "Run this
program in compatibility mode for ..." anything in the drop down box from
Win 95 to Win XP (SP2) .... and/or

Set your privilege level "Run this program as an administrator".

Under these conditions, I'd guess you could run almost any old Windows
software from Win 95 on. 

Russ Coover  

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Kathryn Bassett
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:57 PM
To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'
Subject: TSGL: 3rd party drivers?

I'm going to be getting a new computer shortly and I hope you can give me
some advice on where to turn regarding 3rd party drivers. The computer I've
chosen only comes with Vista and I want to dual boot to XP. Sony says they
don't have drivers to do that. First, what I'm getting, then on to the
question.

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I changed things like this:
IntelR Core 2T Duo Processor T9500 (2.6GHZ)
For sake of argument, I chose MicrosoftR Windows VistaR Business with
Service Pack 1 but I want XP Pro
4 GB DDR-SDRAM (DDR2-667, 2 GBx2)
640 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive [5400 rpm]
Optical Disc Drive, Display, Wireless, and Battery - default, and no TV
Tuner.

I have googled all kinds of combinations and guess I'm just not getting the
right combination of search terms. Can you figure out where I would get all
the various drivers I'd need to be able to dual boot and have things work
under XPpro? 

Hopefully, and thanks,

--
Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
kathryn at bassett.net
HYPERLINK http://bassett.net http://bassett.net   

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