hemang

Hello, I have a Toshiba laptop with XP Home installed. I am using this in my office haing other XP Pro, Home, Linux and Win98 computers connected peer to peer. Through my XP laptop I am able to administer all the computers by logging on with the admin username and password.
Now I am planning to buy a new Dell leptop with comes with Win7 Pro 64Bit. My questions are :
1) Will I be able to run all old programs which I was running on XP on Win7 64 bit?
2) If not can I dual-boot XP 32 bit with Win7 64 bit and run some programs there?
3) Or can I use some virtual windows software to run Xp within Win7 to run old programs? Does this work?
4) Will I have any problems connecting to my office network with XP home, Pro, Win98 and Linux desktops?

Please advice since I have to decide on the purchase of the laptop. Thanks.

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Toshiba A75 Laptop, XP Home SP3, P4 3.06GHz, 1Gb RAM

Bodaggit23

Windows 7 Pro comes with "XP Mode" which allows you to download the software and a copy of XP directly from Microsoft.

XP mode allows you to run XP programs, and the applications will share the same desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

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hemang

Thanks for the answer. Instead of Win7 pro, if I buy Win7 Home Premium, will it allow me to connect to the peer-peer network? I am able to do it with the Xp-Home. In the future if we setup a server instead, will Win7 Home be able to connect as an administrator to this?

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