Richard Urban

The software has to be installed under each operating system. Sorry.

And, you will run into licensing issues to boot. Each operating system is
treated as a separate computer. So, it is the same as if you were installing
Office/Acrobat/AutoCAD etc. on two different boxes.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


"Andrew Fiddian-Green" <nn@dd> wrote in message
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>I have a machine running XP with a full gamut of installed applications
>(e.g. MS Office, iTunes, BDS2006, and many more).
>
> This is a test and development machine, so I need to keep the XP
> environment and all running application, but I want to also add Vista as a
> dual boot.
>
> My question is whether it is possible for the Vista install to leave the
> XP environment unchanged but copy the XP registry settings for the
> installed applications into the Vista registry. Basically I would like the
> existing applications to continue to work both under XP (existing) and
> Vista (new).
>
> My reason is that for time and disk space reasons, I want to avoid having
> to repeat the software installations of all these applications, and I want
> both O/S to access the same "My Documents" folders. For example "My Music"
> contains 50-60GB of stuff that I would like to access and add to from both
> O/S instances.
>
> { Note: I did not yet decide whether to put Vista a) on a separate folder
> in the same partition, b) on a different partition on the same drive, or
> c) on a completely different drive; the most likely choice is c) but I
> think that this is anyway irrelevant to my question... }
>
>
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