From: "Robert Comer" 

>I don't have any reason/wish  to migrate to a DRM os.

That's certainly not why I'm running Vista either!

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Bob Comer


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
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>I had thought of doing something like that. I also would like to test and
>see if there are any difficulties using the Vista BCD store entries in a
>non vm environment. I'll do it on a secondary pc to minimize any damage.
>It's just a learning exercise as I don't have any reason/wish  to migrate
>to a DRM os.
>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&artic
leId=9005047&pageNumber=2
> As Rosoff's statement implies, many of Vista's DRM technologies exist not
> because Microsoft wanted them there; rather, they were developed at the
> behest of movie studios, record labels and other high-powered intellectual
> property owners.
>
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4560fed0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>I keep XP and Vista totally separated and put them both on primary
>>partitions. (so the boot managers don't see each other) and then boot
>>between them via a utility that comes with bootmagic called pqboot32.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
in message
>> news:4560d52b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>I played with RC2 when I was building this PC now I'm about ready to set
>>>up a dual-boot XP/Vista setup  ( XP already installed ).  - keeping
>>>fingers crossed that the Vista boot manager won't become a boot mangler.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Robert Comer"  wrote
in message
>>> news:4560bdb7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>I run Ultimate.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bob Comer 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote in message
>>>> news:456075b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Which Vista?  ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
>>>>> news:45606490$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> Vista runs just fine in less than 1G...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's true it takes more machine than XP did, but
XP takes more
>>>>>> machine than W2K does, as W2K takes machine than NT4 ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Bob Comer
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Geo"  wrote in
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>>>>>>> "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge">
>>>>>>> wrote in
>>>>>>> message news:455dc888{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There's bugger all diff till you get to
large memory requirements.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Do you have a large (many GB) database you
want to operate on in
>>>>>>>> RAM?
>>>>>>>> Are you doing nuclear simulation or
rendering massive graphics
>>>>>>>> files?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well vista want's 2 gig just to run
acceptably, if you run the beta
>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>> next version of windows you probably need 64
bit just to load the
>>>>>>> damn
>>>>>>> graphics driver..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Geo.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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