VirtualPC will run in Vista HP. Alos consider VirtualBox - XP works fine
there also. I just loaded Mandriva Spring 2008 in VirtualBox running in
XP. I have run VirtualBox with 32 and 64 bit Vista versions with no
problem.

David-in-NH wrote:
The same thing happened to me in 2004(?) with an $850 Brother AIO when I
upgraded a Win 95 PC to Win XP.
I had to buy another AIO... HP6110 for $450. I swore I would never buy
another Brother product!

Last year, I purchased a new Acer (Vista Home Premium) PC: Q6600, 500 Gig
HD, 3Gig RAM. Plus I bought a external 500 GIG USB HD for backups. Now I am
again suffering the same problem, but worse... my Microsoft Office 2000 won't
load either, so I'm now using free software... StarOffice. I may also boycott
HP!

I was thinking that it might be possible to load my external HD with my full
version XP and Office 2000 software. Does anyone know if this will then work
as a dual boot PC? (I am obviously not a PC guru.)

From reading Kim Komando, I see that I can't make a virtual XP machine using
Vista Home Premium, so if I can't make a dual boot PC I guess I could revert
to XP. But I am not sure how to guarantee that I have a useful legitimate
copy of my pre loaded Vista to use down the road.

So, if all else fails, I guess I may have to do what Dave did and get
scanning software. But i don't know if it has word processing ability... scan
a document then create a document that can be changed/modified?