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RE: Multiple WinXP installs on one box

Although this seems off-topic, I'll answer here.
 
What I would recommend is using Virtual PC so you can boot full OS images on top of your "base" OS:
 
You can have a complete separate installation of an OS on top of Windows XP if you like. We use this at work all the time. I run Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server, and even Windows NT 4.0 on top of Windows XP. We also run a full data center of 20+ server environments on top of Virtual PC so we can swap them out for different hardware for testing.
 
Just have a lot of RAM installed on your host system so you can dedicate a good chuck of your memory to the Virtual PC image that is running. My laptop has 1GB of RAM and I dedicate 512 MB to a Virtual Hard Disk hard disk image when I boot to them.

From: Jesse Ray Lucas [mailto:jlucas@neoprimitive.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:31 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: OT: Multiple WinXP installs on one box

I'm thinking of splitting my system into three OSes. 
 
1.  An install of WinXP for internet crap, games, email, etc. etc.
 
2.  An install of WinXP optimized for audio, with nothing but audio apps installed. 
 
3.  An install of Linux for backing up SCSI drives from my sampler, experimenting, running an FTP server when I need one. 
 
Can you have multiple WinXP OSes on the same machine?  I know older Windows OSes usually didn't like that. 
 
Could I so something like this using different users?  I don't think it would be quite the same though, because all the bullshit program entries would still be in the registry mucking things up...