Guest Roland A. Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 For a dual boot Windows system, for Win2k and WinXP, is there any way to avoid dual installations of apps? E.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader, is there a way of avoiding having to install the reader for both systems so as to avoid doubling the apps space on HD? Thanks, r.a.
Guest Gordon Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Dual Boot Sys & Apps "Roland A." <rolandansgar@gmail.com> wrote in message news:e4aeb$468cf4f7$4b59cbab$23052@ALLTEL.NET... > For a dual boot Windows system, for Win2k and WinXP, is there any way to > avoid dual installations of apps? E.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader, is there a > way of avoiding having to install the reader for both systems so as to > avoid > doubling the apps space on HD? > > Thanks, > > r.a. > > > > No. You can share DATA but not apps......
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Dual Boot Sys & Apps On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:41:14 -0400, "Roland A." <rolandansgar@gmail.com> wrote: > For a dual boot Windows system, for Win2k and WinXP, is there any way to > avoid dual installations of apps? E.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader, is there a > way of avoiding having to install the reader for both systems so as to avoid > doubling the apps space on HD? No, because of the many registry entries and other references to the applications that have to exist within each copy of Windows. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Bob I Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Dual Boot Sys & Apps Installing the app on a common third partition would be one possible method. You would still have to install from each OS but the main files would be "shared". Roland A. wrote: > For a dual boot Windows system, for Win2k and WinXP, is there any way to > avoid dual installations of apps? E.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader, is there a > way of avoiding having to install the reader for both systems so as to avoid > doubling the apps space on HD? > > Thanks, > > r.a. > > >
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