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Wow this is timely!
I use a lot of Adobe software. Anyone who has tried their pre-release software from labs.adobe.com will have probably encountered some installation/uninstallation issues ...
Long story short, I was in a situation just last week where I needed to install the latest Adobe Design Suite, but it would not install on my Vista machine. I downloaded Virtual PC, and borrowed an XP image from a colleague. I installed the Adobe suite to the image, and all was great.
When I got home, I reimaged my Vista laptop, and straight away insalled Virtual PC and 'built' a new XP machine with it. I have 2 copies of that. One is totally clean, and the other has some specific development software (not the Adobe suite) that runs better on XP than on Vista.
This is going to be a life saver for me for occasional needs. It also means I can now test my work on both Vista and XP without firing up a separate machine. I plan to set up separate XP virtual machines with IE 6 and IE 7, and other browser versions...
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