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Originally Posted by a311hanna (Post 754737)

Also what about the stuff on my hard drive?

Originally Posted by empirestate (Post 755319)

Cloning is an option if that is your thing... but fresh installing is the best for getting the most optimal performance for your computer.

Originally Posted by ilcarletto (Post 755344)

If OP is only going to change the OS HD with a SSD, there is no point in installing everything from scratch. The machine around it wont change, cloning will work just fine.

Originally Posted by aspkin (Post 755184)

SSD all the way.

I have a dinosaur all-in-one desktop with a mechanical drive... all it's used for is a kitchen computer playing YouTube. I almost threw it in the trash but it has a purpose again.. :)

SSD all the way.

Originally Posted by phaz0rz (Post 755182)

Using XP would make your VM's 10x faster. There are tons of torrents out there. If you aren't torrent savvy, any version of Linux would be faster than Win 7.

SSD's are great and can potentially speed up your computer a ton, but I honestly don't think upgrading to an SSD would have much of an impact on the performance of your VMs. You would have to match your hard drive upgrade with a nice RAM upgrade to really be able to tell any difference. Reason being is each VM eats up a ton of RAM, because each VM uses the same amount of RAM as a regular computer.

So you can either spend hundreds of dollars upgrading your RAM and hard drive, or simply downgrade your virtual operating system.

Personally, I have 23 Windows XP VMs. Each one gets either 1gb or 512mb of RAM and 10gb HDD space. I run them seamlessly on a 6 year old laptop with 4g RAM, lol.

Originally Posted by a311hanna (Post 755369)

@phaz0rz I set My sites on xp this morning. Now I have it on VM ran a test and wow it is so smooth and definitely faster then the windows 7 I was using. Can't thank you enough for that tip! Now waiting [emoji88] for ssd[emoji7]

Originally Posted by a311hanna (Post 755380)

Cool:-) I am trying get to figure out how to get wine off all these and xp on them thought I had it but not yet. If I delete my VMs then when I recreate them with xp that would make it like starting all over so ebay pp would be watching so trying to do it still with out starting all over.

Originally Posted by phaz0rz (Post 755381)

I don't know if I'll be able to explain in a way you will understand, but it is possible to migrate all of your Windows 7 stuff to XP.

You would have to set your Windows XP .ISO to boot when the VM starts up. This is done by going into the VM's settings, CD-DVD (IDE), and selecting "Use ISO image file". You select your XP installation ISO and the VM will load XP setup on next startup. Then, you SHOULD have the option to downgrade your OS while leaving all user settings and documents in tact. I know this is easily done when upgrading your Windows OS, so I'm assuming the case is the same when downgrading.

Originally Posted by empirestate (Post 755384)

I highly discourage downgrading.

Originally Posted by phaz0rz (Post 755397)

I highly recommend it. It's the easiest way for OP to keep their browser profiles in tact while changing to a less resource intensive VM OS.

Why exactly would you discourage downgrading? Win 7 is terrible for VMs :smash:

@OP - Glad you figured it out :) Things will be much smoother now!

Originally Posted by phaz0rz (Post 755397)

I highly recommend it. It's the easiest way for OP to keep their browser profiles in tact while changing to a less resource intensive VM OS.

Why exactly would you discourage downgrading? Win 7 is terrible for VMs :smash:

@OP - Glad you figured it out :) Things will be much smoother now!

Originally Posted by newjerseymax (Post 755404)

Great! info!

Might try this myslef

Originally Posted by a311hanna (Post 755405)

Sorry another question. But I see only Firefox for browser on xp? Is that fine to use Firefox or should I install ie? As I thought if different browser then it would be like a new person etc? Not sure if Firefox is fine or if I should install ie.