HiIf I under stand you correctly, you want to have the same OS installed twice. Yes you can but you have to install it on partitioned drive or on a separate hdd. In either case you can have only one active OS open at a time.
My suggestion would be to add different user accounts to just the one OS with out admin rights, just regular accounts.
Demo: Understanding user accounts
Once you have a dual boot configuration, you can disable the option to display the list of operating system by going to start and typing "edit the system environment variables". From this dialog, go to settings under startup and uncheck the option. Now the only way to get to the boot menu to select the other operating system is to press F8 at boot.
nope i don't need 2 os at the same time just wanted to know when i install new os how can i make this os as primary and the 2nd one as secondaryI think the OP wants to have both OS's available at the same time and dual booting and changing the boot priority really doesn't apply. Because you can only have one OS opened at a time. The only way he can do what he wants is with a virtual machine. I don't see or heard of any other way to do this...
If this were a viable option I'd have windows 7/8 and linux distro all running at the same time.....just flip flopping back and forth. Or if you had more than one monitor, like me, have each OS on a different monitor at the same time. Then that would be way cool but I just don't see any way to do that.
10q 4 ur comment, just where exactly is this "edit the system environment variables"? msconfig? I can't find it cause my windows is in german not englishOnce you have a dual boot configuration, you can disable the option to display the list of operating system by going to start and typing "edit the system environment variables". From this dialog, go to settings under startup and uncheck the option. Now the only way to get to the boot menu to select the other operating system is to press F8 at boot.
Hello skeptic,
Some great suggestions here, however, whatever you choose will still show all OS's in the Menu during boot up.
If you wish to skip the boot menu during startup (so that no OS is visible) you would have to use a
3rd party app and for that I would recommend http://neosmart.net/iReboot/, makers of EasyBCD
This will allow you to skip the OS Boot Menu entirely, you would make your OS choice before you
Shut Down completely. Next time you turn on your machine, you will boot to the OS chosen
as if you only had 1 OS.
I think this is what your looking for.
Hope it helps
Don
hi don
thank you for ur comment
i just purchased this app u've recommanded (ireboot)) for 10$
and unfortunetally it was same as take 10$ bill and throw it to the garbage.
the program did what i wanted, but only for the first time.
so at the first time i run the proĝram, picked the second os to startup by reboot
then closed the program and restrarted windows, and it did skipped
the boot menu and run the second os without showing the os list at startup
but then again when i restarted i got again the os list.
so i tried to install the program of both os and do the same on the second
and it still did not help.
so every second time i restart i still have the os list.
so is there any better solution to solve it so windows will always remember to startup the second os unless
i tell him with special hotkey like F9 or something to run the first one
or shall i buy another programs such as EasyBCD and Idoo and spend more money
cheers