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I am about to try VB but had a slightly rocky experience trying it in the past because of confusion between the "VM session drive C" and the "real drive C in Win 7." If I ran apps in Win7 I'd refer to C: and in VM I'd have to say K:

Did they set me up non-optimally to cause that condition? Or does this always just "come with the territory?" Is there some strategy or mental paradigm to make this better? (For example, maybe I could work essentially 100% of the time in the VM in XP, and just ignore what's going on out there in stupid Window7ville! Install everything the the XP VM drive C. Is that a valid strategy?) TIA

It is all in your head, not in the technology.

All you need to do is think of the host and the guest as two separate machines. Forget about XPMode.