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I had a question about dual booting. I dual booted XP and Vista on my PC. I was having some capability problems with Vista, but didn't wanna downgrade either, so I wiped it all and dual booted XP then Vista.
Computer specs are as follows:
1 TB Hard drive space. 2x drives @ 500GB EA. One hard drive is partitioned into 2 drives (XP on one Vista on the other), and the 3rd drive is empty. I have another 150Gig external for media.
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 2Gig Video Card.
Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 5000+ 2.61GHZ processors.
4 Gigs of DDR2 RAM (4 sticks of 1gig EA)
... and a bunch of other misc hardware.
My question is this... Is it possible to run some programs with Vista that were loaded in XP and vice versa? I've noticed some programs like Firefox, Winamp and Limewire will (I installed them running XP and they will open in Vista)... but programs that normally run fine in Vista that I loaded in XP won't cross over and run in Vista... like Day of Defeat or COD4 for example.
Will I have to install each of these programs on each OS if I want to run them in their respective OS? I know it sounds confusing, but how does this work?
Thanks for the help.
Computer specs are as follows:
1 TB Hard drive space. 2x drives @ 500GB EA. One hard drive is partitioned into 2 drives (XP on one Vista on the other), and the 3rd drive is empty. I have another 150Gig external for media.
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 2Gig Video Card.
Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 5000+ 2.61GHZ processors.
4 Gigs of DDR2 RAM (4 sticks of 1gig EA)
... and a bunch of other misc hardware.
My question is this... Is it possible to run some programs with Vista that were loaded in XP and vice versa? I've noticed some programs like Firefox, Winamp and Limewire will (I installed them running XP and they will open in Vista)... but programs that normally run fine in Vista that I loaded in XP won't cross over and run in Vista... like Day of Defeat or COD4 for example.
Will I have to install each of these programs on each OS if I want to run them in their respective OS? I know it sounds confusing, but how does this work?
Thanks for the help.