http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3904 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Dual Boot - installing programs to be used by both OS en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:39:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3904#post-41992 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:24:15 +0000 Txnnok 41992@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'm with ya on some sort of dual boot program. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3904#post-41982 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:35:55 +0000 goodgotd 41982@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>unless you're working with huge apps it's simplest to separate. OTOH, some work fine from the same spot for dual-boot. photoshop 6 couldn't care less. unzip and run? usually. giveaways activate both sides, the ones with ini/cfg files in the install directory are the ones that'll give you trouble. in the registry or a system app dir will do fine, as they aren't the same.</p> <p>the real disc cost is the add-ons and the os- 2 .net 1.1-2-3-3.5, 2 jre, 2 directx, 2 sets of everything. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3904#post-41974 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:52:46 +0000 Illegal.Alien 41974@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>That's not an easy thing to do. When you install a typical program, it puts information in many places. Sometimes it will drop DLLs in the system folder, add registry keys, place settings files in APPDATA, or Local Settings\Appdata. It will place it in the Program Folder and sometimes in multiple places in the program folder.</p> <p>What you really need to do, although I'm sure you don't want to. Is use nLite + vLite to change the program folders to a specific one on a partition you already have setup. This means reinstalling the fixed OS. This way they will both know that P:\Programs is the program folder. Now, with any luck, you can install the program on one OS, then install it ontop of the previous installation on the other OS.</p> <p>It would just be easier to install the program twice, but if you really want to save disk space, that's the only remotely possible approach. Keep in mind settings won't be transfered either, just saves space with the core program files. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3904#post-41934 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:35:24 +0000 AlexSJ 41934@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Got a new laptop which came with Vista Home. Turns out my sons wants to keep Vista, but I need XP for work reasons. I got it now configured so that it boots up to either one (Vista: C, XP on D) and am on my way to install the software and games.<br /> My question now, can I use the same program folder on the same drive or will I set myself up for desaster?<br /> I tried it on a few programs and they are working fine such as Skype. Some I installed first in Vista, then to the same destination under XP<br /> Thanks for your input, AlexSJ </p>