On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 01:15:14AM +0000, miguelmedalha@sapo.pt wrote:
It's not that I use the win7 installation much, but I do want to be able to do so when one of those rare occasions pops up.
If your laptop is powerful enough and its processor supports hardware virtualization, you can have both systems running at the same time with almost no speed decrease. There are free virtualization solutions such as Virtual Box. You would instsl C7 and then create a virtual machine for Windows. When you need Windows, just run it in a window.
Dual boot is a PITA.
yeah, I know!
this is a netbook with a dual core 1.6Ghz Atom. not very powerful.
I also don't have any installation media, all I have is the running Windows system, so I'd have to figure out how to turn a "real" machine into a VM. I know its doable, I'm just not sure I want to go that route.
but thanks for the suggestion!
Fred