There is now absolutely no excuse not to give Linux goodness a fair go. Wubi is a small .exe which allows you to run Ubuntu without having to nervously pfaff about with partitions or run in toffee-slow virtualisation. Utilising Red Bull, prayer and superstring theory it creates an entry in the boot record allowing you to restart your box, select it from the boot menu whereupon it downloads Ubuntu and runs it inside an NTFS partition. No performance hit, all hardware detected. If you decide you don't like it - boot into Windows and delete the file - bonzer! Get it here: http://wubi-installer.org/