JD10
International Cricketer
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2007
- Location
- North England/Melbourne
I'll go with XP any day much better. Hate Vista
You can install it in a virtual machine. Google "Sun VirtualBox" and you'll get to know it all. Its VERY easy!Vista SP1 is greater than XP. Before SP1 came, I had two system crashes with Vista (one was the dreaded bootmgr problem that happened by itself and I had to format the system to get rid of it since my laptop didnt come with the Vista OS CD).
After SP1 came, it has all been very smooth. You need to have lots of memory to have Vista (atleast 2GB these days). But its pretty good and friendly. I am sure Windows 7 is going to be far better than XP or Vista with whatever service packages. My friend is testing the beta version and he has been singing praises of it almost everytime I meet him. I have downloaded the ISO file of Windows 7 beta but I dont want to install it on my laptop as I want to wait for the full one to release.
You only need to install Vista SP1 if you want to "upgrade" to Windows 7, as Windows 7 only supports upgrade from Vista SP1 at this point. Upgrade means keeping all your files, settings etc. and jumping on the new OS.Oh I almost forgot this, unless I came accross NFS: Shift. Anyway I guess Win XP SP3(according to replies) is the one which Iam gonna take up, + its free to upgrade. But KI, I couldn't understand that Vista SP1 point, should we have it to install Win 7? Can you please clear it for me?
You only need to install Vista SP1 if you want to "upgrade" to Windows 7, as Windows 7 only supports upgrade from Vista SP1 at this point. Upgrade means keeping all your files, settings etc. and jumping on the new OS.
You can install it in a virtual machine. Google "Sun VirtualBox" and you'll get to know it all. Its VERY easy!
He he.. today only, one of my college mates recommended that to me and we both went through its installation on my personal laptop. And now I am reading the same thing from you. I just installed Ubuntu on the virtual box and am enjoying it.
I have a question (sorry for going off topic). I changed the resolution of Ubuntu by mistake to 640x480 and now my windows go out of resolution and so I am not able to change back my resolution to 800x600. How do I restore the default settings in Ubuntu? Not only you, can anyone help?