Suggestion for the right operating system

by **Zirus-VAG** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 3:48 pm

Dear All,

it is a very General Question but also a Basic to start correctly.

At the beginning I had windows7 - on my "Car-Notebook". I used it for CVDS, MPPS12, Can Commander, VCP, and some other smaller Programms.

After I changed my Notebook I had Windows 10 and for personal feeling was also good.
when I wanted to update my MPPS to V16 I found out that ist not easy to install.
I still want to use it for ETKA, WinOLS, ODIS , ...…

Which OS would you recomment to me as a Basic to start correctly?
Can I also make a virtual mashine to get use to other operating Systems for special Topics?

I would be vefy happy if you could help me with your experience in this topic.

Thanks!

by **Blitsvis** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 5:15 pm

if you have original tools you will have no issues with windows 10

by **Tune4Fun** » Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:39 pm

For your best choice, use windows 7, because it's better for all of the software you use. And use only one for flash, then another computer to the rest of the software

by **AndrewW** » Thu Aug 15, 2019 8:30 pm

My garage laptop is dual booted with Windows XP and Windows 7, both 32bit. In my experience a lot of tuning/programming software and hardware doesn’t work well from a virtual machine

Between them they have compatibility for everything I need to do including some older eeprom readers etc.

If you’re setting up from scratch and want to dual boot, install XP first then the newer OS, then Windows boot manager should take care of the dual boot.otherwise EasyBCD should sort the job out