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wabashman
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_ 		19. December 2007 @ 13:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey everyone,
just a quick question here, i have had XP on my PC for a long while now, and put Vista on it the other night so now i can dual boot once again, but i'm curious as to if i can run the same programs in XP in Vista without having to reinstall them in vista itself, thus saving space on the hard drives. i was thinking about just copying and pasting my program files from the XP drive over to Vista's program files, but then i realized that i wouldn't have the programs in the start menu or anything like that. so any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
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krj15489
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_ 		19. December 2007 @ 16:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
it wont work because when you install a program it writes important stuff to the registry. so the program files are basically useless when copied to another partition.
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cj1976
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_ 		20. December 2007 @ 01:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It works fine for games, I just create a shortcut to the exe file and use that. Game saves are a bit messed up though, but that depends on the individual game. Some games like Bioshock save to a folder in My documents, so if you use both systems, the saves will be going in different places.
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wabashman
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_ 		23. December 2007 @ 17:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sorry it took me a while to respond guys, i never got an email saying the thread was updated. but i didnt think it would work by copying the files over. oh well, ill just have to reinstall all of them i guess.
thanks all
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