Dual Boot Sys & Apps

[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.

 

[Gordon]

"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......

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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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[Bob I]

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.
>
>
>