Windows 2000

Windows XP and Windows 2000 are both Operating systems. This means they are the platform which allow you to run all your applications/Software etc.

If you mean you have a PC with Windows 2000 and want to upgrade to Windows XP then yes you can do this. You would however need to re-install drivers for your graphics, sound card etc. although if your PC is modern XP may automatically do it for you dependant on your hardware.

Hope this helps

A dual-boot or multiboot installation is an installation of Windows that leaves another operating system intact on your computer. When you start your computer, you can decide which operating system to run. In order to keep the versions of Windows separate, you install each in a separate partition

In general, you should always install the most recent OS last. In this case, you should install Windows 2000 and then install Windows XP.

You can set up your computer so that it has multiple installations of Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional. But, you must use a different computer name for each installation if the computer participates in a Windows 2000 Server domain. Because a unique security identifier (SID) is used for each installation of Windows XP on a domain, the computer name for each installation must be unique?even for multiple installations on the same computer. WinXpFix.com

Checklist:
To configure your computer containing Windows 2000 and Windows XP, fallow these following guidelines:

* You should Install each operating system on a separate drive or disk partition.

* Install Windows XP after you have installed Windows 2000.

* When you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), by default, the installation is placed on a partition on which no other operating system is located. You can specify a partition during Setup.

* On any partition where you perform a new installation of Windows XP you will need to reinstall any programs, such as word processing or e-mail software, after your Setup is completed.

* Install your programs used by each operating system on the partition with that system. If you want your programs to run with multiple operating systems, you need to install separate copies of the programs in each of the operating system partitions.

* Remember Windows XP must be installed last. Otherwise important files needed for starting Windows XP could be overwritten.

It's not very clear what you mean with your question. If what you mean is, you have a PC with windows 2000 and you want to run Windows XP inside windows 2000 at the same time, you will need a separate tool, like VMWare. This Product lets you install further operating systems inside your current OS (as a Image File). You can then boot that OS while running your host OS and it works for many different systems like Linux, Windows anything etc. This product is ideal if you want to test the functioning of different software on different plattforms and you only have one PC. Your client OS can even bluescreen while your Host OS still keeps on running happily!

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Why are you asking lots of trivial questions each day? Are you trying to amass a large number of techpoints? What for??!!

Please if you want answers for real problems then by all means ask. But stop wasting these nice people's valuable time by asking meaningless questions.

I notice that you have asked similarly ambiguous questions at least three times previously.

ADVICE TO OTHER POSTERS : please stop answering this guy's questions. It is just a timewaster. Look back in the question history and you will see what I mean.

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