favorite old game) won’t work under
Windows Vista? Run it under an older
operating system you’ve loaded into Microsoft
Virtual PC 2007 (VPC 07). The
utility may not be quite as full-featured as VMware
Workstation, but it has one big advantage—it’s free!
VPC 07 runs under Vista Business, Enterprise,
and Ultimate, plus XP Professional and Tablet Edition,
but not Vista Home or XP Home. You can install
nearly any PC-compatible OS inside its virtual
machines, though. I got DOS 6.22, Red Hat Linux,
Windows 95, Windows 98, and two instances of XP
working. The virtual machines can all read the system’s
CD and DVD drives and can take turns using
the floppy disk drive. But for USB support, you need
a competitor: VMware or Parallels Workstation.
VPC can save and restore a VM’s state but has
nothing like VMware’s multiple snapshots. It does
have an equivalent to VMware’s “linked clone”
feature, and wizards ease the creation of VMs and
disks. All told, I found VPC 07 intuitive and stocked
with everything casual users need to manage programs
that don’t like Vista.
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