Dual Boot Sys & Apps

[Guest Roland A.]

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]

Re: Dual Boot Sys & Apps

 

"Roland A." <rolandansgar@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> 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]

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

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[Guest Bob I]

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.

>

>

>