Navigating between operating systems

Dear Cu,

It all depends on how you have installed your two operating systems.

Lets say you have installed Ubunut and Windows in same hard disk but in different partitions, then there will be a menu displayed before you when you start the system which gives you choice to select either Ubuntu and Windows. Lets say you selected Ubuntu. After entering ubuntu you can access windows drives by mounting them. Access means you can play audio content using ubuntu application like xmms , you can play video on your windows drive using Ubuntu application real player etc. The cube effect is just a desktop effect in Ubuntu. You can navigate through different desktops (only ubuntu desktop) and access various applications which makes your work bit easy.

Now if you want to start Ubuntu in linux then you need to create a virtual drive in Windows and you can install Ubuntu virtually . It treats Ubuntu as a application where you can perform various tasks but with certain limitations.

Hope you understand,

-Murali-

I don't know what do you mean by "navigating", access the files in the other OS (of your hard disk), or logging into the different OS while starting?

If you want to navigating files on the other partition of your hard disk, you should mount them fist, the Ubuntu Hardy seems not mount them automatically.
And the GRUB will help you to logging into different OS while starting.

For the second problem, I suggest an application named "compizconfig-settings-manager". You can install it via apt-get / synaptic, it's a compiz settings manager with GUI, very easy to use.

Enjoy your cube.

Justin