XP/Vista - installing apps on a common drive

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Terry R.

On my personal workstation, I have always used a separate drive
partition for data and a separate drive partition for apps, since I have
multiple OS's and to keep partition sizes small. I point each app from
each OS to the same location, so there is only one footprint of each
installed app. If an uninstall is needed (rarely if ever), I just copy
the app folder, uninstall it, then rename the copy back to the original
so all the other OS's have it available.

I was wondering whether anyone dual boots using XP/Vista and has a
separate drive they install apps to that is common to both OS's.

Thanks,
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Plato

Terry said:
On my personal workstation, I have always used a separate drive
partition for data and a separate drive partition for apps, since I have
multiple OS's and to keep partition sizes small. I point each app from
each OS to the same location, so there is only one footprint of each
installed app. If an uninstall is needed (rarely if ever), I just copy
the app folder, uninstall it, then rename the copy back to the original
so all the other OS's have it available.

I was wondering whether anyone dual boots using XP/Vista and has a
separate drive they install apps to that is common to both OS's.

Each app has to be installed with each OS, separately. As, most every
app likes to put files in the windows folder.
 
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Terry R.

The date and time was 9/4/2008 5:53 PM, and on a whim, Plato pounded out
Each app has to be installed with each OS, separately. As, most every
app likes to put files in the windows folder.

I have done this with 4 OS's for over 8 years, so I know the process.
What I was hoping for was to hear from anyone who is doing it using XP &
Vista, to know whether Vista does anything that affects the program
folder differently than XP.

Thanks,

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Terry R.

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