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After setting up your computer with Windows 7 is great. After setting up your computer dual-boot into Windows 7 and a fast thin client OS like Joli? It is even better.

Google's Chrome OS has gotten a lot of ink lately, and for good reason: It's easy to install, zippy, and—insofar as thin-client operating systems go—powerful. But as ubiquitous as Chrome is in the news these days, it isn't the only web-based operating system in town. Jolicloud, or as Jolicloud developers prefer to call it these days, Joli OS, has been making low-powered netbooks, PCs, tablets, and web browsers more productive since 2009.

Jolicloud, aka Joli OS is a free, cloud-based OS that allows you instant access to your favorite online applications and services workers.

Experienced users find the install supplement Joli OS as a secondary operating system, its existing installation of Windows 7 will opt to boot the thin client is so fast that they already logged in, fired from an e-mail, and moved with her life in the time it would take for Windows 7 to the boot screen to load. Setting up your PC to dual boot into Windows 7 and OS Joli could not be easier, with the whole process should not be longer than 45 minutes and a single download. Here's how it goes.

Step 1: Download Joli OS

If you plan to install OS Joli, you must first download it. The thin-client developers provide the operating system in a variety of flavors. The easiest way Joli (and we are for this tutorial), is to install the Windows option, prominently on the download page Jolicloud away (above) presents. Click on it and load the OS installation package on your desktop.

Step 2: Install Joli OS

It's time to get that thin-client installation to show on the road. Double-click the OS installer Joli and tell Windows to retreat when it warns you that it does not recognize the packet publisher. After a few minutes to extract, is the package that will greet you with an installation dialogue.

Click on the Get Started button (above, top). You will be prompted to enter a user name and password for your OS installation Joli (top, bottom) choose. Choose something easy to remember, while at the same time give truck on the importance of strong password protection. Once you have fattened up, you have your new thin-client credentials, click Next.

By default, the installation package will want to set up shop on your C: drive. If you're OK with the location and partition size suggested, click Next. If they rub you the wrong way, click the option to change the configuration (above). Your PC can rock a Joli OS installation with as little as 4GB of space. Once you've wrangled the installation settings you're after, click Next. Joli OS will install to your system, prompting you to go for a coffee. If you choose to do so, you'd better make it a quick one—after repeated installations, we've found the whole process to average less than five minutes in length.

Step 3: Reboot Your PC

Once installation is complete, you will be prompted to restart your system. Do this. Thanks to some behind-the-scenes magic and GNU project GRUB boot loader, you will find that you now rocking a dual-boot system that the OS-or Windows-Joli-7 asks you to boot into on startup. For the sake of this tutorial, you use your keyboard arrow keys Joli OS (see below) to select and press Enter.

Use a splash screen Joli OS will be rewarded, followed shortly thereafter by a dialogue and progress bar to explain that Joli is your OS installation is complete. In hindsight, we are sure that the Joli OS developers would agree that this is one way to go one better place and grab a cup of Java as a process to unpack. Is as svelte as an operating system Joli, the last stage of its installation, a surprisingly long time took to complete. That is, your patience will be rewarded with one of the best dual-boot thin client experiences currently available. Once installation is complete, Joli OS will automatically reboot your system to boot into the OS again, so that you can to the point.

Step 4: Set Up Joli OS

Whether you are a coffee break, or chose not, sooner or later your Joli OS installation is complete and ready for use. Remember, the credentials on the back we had to decide in step 2? It is their time to shine: When Joli OS has rebooted, type it into the box provided. You are then prompted to either log into your existing Jolicloud account or create one (below). For existing Jolicloud users, login to your Joli OS installations are connected to your account to one of the preferences, settings or documents that you created with other iterations Joli OS to your new Sync hardware-bound version of the OS system . For users who are new to Jolicloud Joli and OS, creating an account is not only a prerequisite for the thin-client rocks on your computer, but also a fantastic way to access all your personal information, documents and preferred applications, where you get there via the dedicated website Jolicloud, its own Chrome app thumbstick installations and hardware to the operating system.

You are then asked to describe what kind of hardware you have the operating system should be installed and your computer brand and model. This Joli OS helps you with the best in service and driver updates for your specific test. It could also come useful later, should you decide to use the operating system in several places and need to distinguish between those who is installing.

Step 5: Enjoy!

Now that you have installed your OS Joli thin client, you are ready to take advantage of what a dual-boot as super rig your offer now to reap. For heavier tasks, such as hardcore gamers, and photo-manipulation, there's no doubt that Windows 7 is the right platform for the job. If all you are interested in is a bit of word processing, surfing the Internet, or get your e-mail, see Joli OS more than capable. What is more, make Joli operating systems low power consumption it perfectly productive for sales representatives looking for a place on a cross-country flight with nothing more than the charge in your laptop battery, or for those of us not to wait, the patience, suitable boot our computer into a robust OS.

Step 6: Just In Case

If you decide for whatever reason is, that is OS Joli not get rid of you, it's even easier than installing it. Simply boot into Windows with an Administrator account, go to your Control Panel> Programs> Programs and Features> Uninstall. Search Jolicloud in the list of applications, and then uninstall it like nothing else. Boom: your system is back to a mono-boot animal.