Few tasks are more daunting and treacherous than juggling multiple operating systems on a single PC. V-com System Commander 7.0 helps you configure a single PC to run many different operating systems and prepare your PC for installation by automatically partitioning your hard disk, then it lets you choose an operating system to run when you boot. Its slick graphical interface makes up for the fact that it doesn't fully integrate with Windows under the hood. At around $60, System Commander makes sense for the savvy user, software developers, or IT administrators who needs to run a wide variety of OSs on a single PC.

But, if you want to try out only two or three operating systems, stick with freeware utilities (often bundled with Linux and Unix installations),, or Windows' own partitioning tools. When you install System Commander, you'll see a typical Windows setup program--but this is no Windows-based application.

In fact, System Commander is a self-contained utility that runs on boot up before any OS loads, so you can actually run it from your hard drive even before you install any operating system. The installer's Windows-based utility program merely lets you set a few options, such as changing the look of the user interface or selecting which OS to boot into. For more complicated functions, such as preparing your system to install a new OS or setting usernames or passwords to restrict access, you must restart your system and access System Commander before an OS boots, which is actually a bit of a bother. System Commander can be installed on any Windows system running 95/96/Me/NT/2000/XP and even DOS. Once you reboot, you'll do a double take: the software's user interface mimics the Windows desktop almost exactly.

With NTFS and Linux resizing, the exclusive BackStep Wizard, and a new look and feel to the OS Wizard, System Commander 2000 is an OS manager and partitioning product in one. Think about it, and give the operating systems about 25-30% free space for virtual memory/swap space, they run better like that.

Including mouse support, full-color icons, and pull-down menus, this slick interface makes navigation easy and very straightforward. To launch a particular operating system, you simply click the icons that, by default, look like the box art of the operating system in question. You can configure the software to automatically launch a particular OS at a specified time, and you can restrict access to specific OSs via password. Dynomite Deluxe Apk Free. Version 7.0 of System Commander includes a few improvements over the previous version, System Commander 2000. In addition to its slick new user interface and support for Windows XP, System Commander also includes native support for NT File System (NTFS). Competing utilities such as require a file allocation table (FAT) partition to launch their boot utility, but System Commander can install directly into an NTFS partition running Windows NT or XP.