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Hi All:

I finished my Virtual PC 2007 installation on my new laptrop--done essentially as on my desktop as described in my first post on this thread. The difference is that I installed XP Pro on my laptop because of its lower memory and virtual disk storage requirements. It all works great and truely is better than a Vista/XP dual boot as both systems and whatever is installed on them is available simultaneously. My laptop has Vista Premium--which is not a system that is supported, using Virtual PC 2007, by Microsoft. I think that this "lack of support" has no serious consequenses. My only problem was getting Virtual PC "Additions" working--which may be a function of the "lack of support."

"Additions" allows one to get all significant, if not all, features of the guest operating system (XP Pro in this case) to work, and, AFAIK, to install any program (consistent with the guest operation system) desired on the virutual machine. But keep in mind that what one might want to install is liminted by the memory that can be allocated to a virtual machine (and, thus, taken away form the host machine) and similaly with the storage allocation. But, anyway, I devised a way to get "Addition" working.

But, my interest is in intrepid surfing--using avast! (free), ZoneAlarm (free), and old verisions of Ad-Aware SE+ (including Ad-Watch with real-time scanning). Intrepid surfing requires only relatively small memory and stoage allocations.

I'd like to see something from my virtual machine to my laptop. I am sure it can be done, but I'd bet not without some highly focued efforts by a very good hacker/cracker.

Please reply here, not by PM, if you have questions, comments, etc., about setting up a viirtual machine--whether or not consistent with my newly coined pharse, "Intrepid Surfing."