Hi,

I tend to experiment with a lot of different programming languages and IDE's.
It works, but I notice that the environments tend to collide and slow down a little.

For example I have VB6 installed on an XP system and I installed VS2008 after that.
After installing VS2008 I noticed a significant slowdown in the VB6 IDE and VS2008 might be affected by the existence of VB6 (but it might also be slow by nature...).
Also Eclipse is terrible...

The thought virtual machine has crossed me, but that strains the system a little too much and doesn't have the right "feel" for everyday work.

I am thinking about creating a couple of Windows installations alongside each other, but any suggestion not involving rebooting my pc each time would be greatly appreciated.

Also, where does your preference go to in terms of OS for Visual Studio?

Thanks