{"id":29379,"date":"2012-03-19T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=29379"},"modified":"2012-03-19T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:37:52","slug":"windows-secrets-newsletter-how-to-safely-test-drive-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/windows-secrets-newsletter-how-to-safely-test-drive-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Secrets Newsletter: How to safely test-drive Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/win8_win_secrets.jpg\" alt=\"test drive windows 8\" title=\"test drive windows 8\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Fred Langa\/Windows Secrets Newsletter<\/p>\n<h3>Safely test-drive Windows 8<\/h3>\n<p>Using safe, free virtual PC software, you can set up and run the Windows 8 Consumer Preview inside your current PC without affecting your other programs or your installed version of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>This method lets you test-drive Windows 8 without having to make potentially risky changes to your current setup. There\u2019s no need for dual-booting, special partitions, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up Windows 8 in a virtual PC requires numerous steps. I\u2019ll take you through all of them, one by one, to help ensure that everything works right the first time.<\/p>\n<p>First, however, let\u2019s make sure we\u2019re on the same page. A virtual PC (VPC), sometimes also called a virtual machine (VM), is a desktop computer that\u2019s fully emulated in software. You can install a variety of operating systems, applications, and utilities on VPCs and use them just as if you\u2019d installed them on a standalone system.<\/p>\n<p>The operating system (or guest software) installed on a VPC thinks it\u2019s running on a normal, physical system. But it\u2019s not; it\u2019s running inside a protected memory space on the host system. In a VPC, special emulation software masquerades as the BIOS, motherboard, hard drive, CD drive, display adapter, network card, and other components of a physical machine. In other words, VPCs provide all the normal hardware of a standard PC \u2014 entirely in software.<\/p>\n<p>VPCs are great for experimenting; the test environment is fully isolated from your real PC\u2019s host operating system and applications. If the test system crashes, the host PC generally won\u2019t even notice. (After years of use, I have never experienced a software crash inside a VPC that affected the host PC in any way.)<\/p>\n<p>All of which typically makes a VPC the simplest, easiest, and safest way to test-drive Windows 8 \u2014 for free!<\/p>\n<p>This article breaks the setup process into three major steps: installing an Oracle VirtualBox VPC on a Windows 7 system, setting up a new VPC within VirtualBox, and tweaking and tuning the setup to run Windows 8 Consumer Preview. When you\u2019re done, you\u2019ll be able to start exploring the new operating system with almost zero risk to your current setup. (Any change to a Windows system includes some risk. Make sure your PC is fully backed up before taking these steps.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/top-story\/step-by-step-how-to-safely-test-drive-win8\/?utm_source=PCPitstop&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s the rest of the story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with permission from Windows Secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/win8_win_secrets.jpg\" alt=\"test drive windows 8\" title=\"test drive windows 8\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using virtual PC software top safely set up Windows 8 for a test driver ; step by step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[720,3909,538,650],"class_list":["post-29379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-secrets","tag-microsoft-windows-8","tag-test-drive-windows-8","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-secrets-newsletter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to safely test-drive Windows 8<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Using virtual PC software top safely set up Windows 8 for a test driver ; 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