@EricLawton

I went to the trouble to set up dual boot on my linux/windows box as i was trying to phase out windows, but windows hates grub and every time i restart windows, it suspects it's newly installed and makes me enter install codes, which is a pain because you can't go get them and cut & paste them when the OS isn't booted. you really have to type them in. it's so tedious and unusable that I finally had to install virtualbox and build windows inside that instead just so i could occasionally use the one or two apps that i have no equivalent of under linux.