I used to play with dual booting operating systems, but I generally found myself using one over the other for the most part. It was cool to learn how to do it, but it wasn't practical for me on a day-to-day basis. So, I just made sure all my apps worked in the new one (or found the very few replacements - usually utility programs - for those that didn't).

Now I find if I get nostalgic, I just run the other operating systems as a virtual machine.

I went full-speed ahead with Windows 10 on both my laptop and desktop, and at least for my equipment, haven't looked back. All my audio devices work properly and all my major applications do as well. The only real modification I made to it was to use Stardock's Start10 start menu program, because even though the start menu in Win10 is better, I still don't really care for it.

The biggest problem with dual-booting Windows XP with one of the higher level Windows is what has been previously stated. It will absolutely remove your restore points. Having been saved before (occasionally, not often) by reverting to a previous restore point, that ultimately became a show-stopper.

John

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