TSGL: 3rd party drivers?

[Kathryn Bassett]

My delay in responding is because I'm out of town. Taking an opportunity to answer now, then won't be back online again til Wed night.

Russ replied:

> 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'm getting a new computer and the computer I want only comes with Vista. One of my clients has a Vista machine that I've used. Although there are a few things I like, there are some things I don't like. One thing I hate is that I can't get the XP look and feel for Windows Explorer. I absolutely detest the way it works in Vista and since I use it a lot, it's a sticking point for me. As for the applications, it's not a matter of refusing to upgrade, it's a matter of I'm the only person left in the world to provide support for an old dos program. Many elderly people use Family Roots on old machines and won't be changing because of their age. It will run on Vista, but some of the background things I have to do work better under XP. For some of the things that I do, I'll keep your compatibility mode tip on hand for things that might come up in the future.

Ron Brunton gave some suggestions about the dual boot.

> seems to have solved). To establish a Dual Boot system all I 
> did was install XP to a separate partition on my hard drive 
<snip>
> No installation problems or odd twists. The only driver 
> issues you might have are around the video card, the wireless 
> card and the network adapter. Everything else should be 
> already built into XP. Hopefully you can find those specific 
> drivers at manufacturer's websites.

That's what my post is all about. I know the dual boot can be done, it's getting the drivers I will need that is the question. The computer is a laptop (Sony AR series) and they don't plan on having XP drivers. Hence my question on finding 3rd party drivers.

> By the way, XP cannot recognize your full 4 GB memory. Its 
> limit is about 3.3 GB. 

That's ok, at least the 3.3 is better than the 2 comes with the computer as default.

Lee Bunyard posted regarding Vista Home Premium, and I thought I should mention that the computer I'm getting has Vista Business, in case that makes any difference in the suggestions for the 3rd party drivers. 

The link again, for those who might be able to figure out the 3rd party drivers for me:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SYCTOProcess?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&LBomId=8198552921665300946

Thanks for the help.

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