Dual Booting Win2K/Win98SE & Programs?

[Robor]

I'm currently dual booting Win2000 Pro and Win98SE. Right now I have 2 seperate installs (one for each OS) of the programs I use. It works but it's kind of a pain. Especially with Email. If I receive Email in Win2K then boot Win98SE to game for a bit when I open my Email the Win2K Emails are not there. I have to boot to the other OS to get that info. Same thing with Favorites, cookies, stored passwords, etc in IE.

Is there a simple way to dual boot and use the same program? I should also mention that I have 3 HD's installed and they are not the same in each bootup.

Thanks for any help.

Rob

 

[mosdef]

As far as I know, you're going to have to reinstall the program. Possibly what you could do for e-mail programs is if you know the file that all your mail is stored in. You can have it installed in Win98 lets say, then make a backup of that file, install it in Win2k in the same directory, and then copy back that mail file.

-mosdef

 

[SaturnX]

Alrite well as for special folders, My Docs, Favorites etc.. You'll have to do a bit of registry editing, go into this folder in either registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]

Then just change the paths, having both OSes link to the same path. That's settled.

As for emal and such, it all depends on what program you are using, for Outlook Express, you can change the storage location of the email under the Tools option, then once again, set both OS email clients to store in the same folder, and there ya go, all your email can be read from either OS, but otherwise to share programs, you have to reinstall over the same directory for both OSes, though this can sometimes cause problems.

--Mark

 

[Robor]

Thanks a bunch for the quick replies! I will try your advice when I get home tonight. I especially look forward to sharing my Favorites and Email directories. That will save a lot of time.

Thanks again!

Rob

 

[obenton]

Programs installed in win98 can run satisfactorily in w2k as long as they don't require w2k registry settings in order to run properly. For example, I run a win98 Eudora using w2k - simply created a shortcut that w2k uses to start and run the program in its win98 partition directory. Have even run Ultima Ascension, installed in win98, using a w2k shortcut ... and Netscape (even though it has lots of registry entries, none, apparently, is essential to the running of the program). In fact, I can't, offhand, think of any win98 program I've tried it on that failed to run satisfactorily.

 

[Robor]

One problem I've found in trying to share programs is my HD's are different on bootups. I've got 3 HD's in the system and on boot they are as follows:

Win98SE
C: Win98
D: Win2000
E: Storage

Win2000
C: Storage
D: Win2000
E: Win98

So I've got programs installed under Win98SE that point to a C:\Program path. When I try this under Win2K the path doesn't work so it isn't there. The programs I'm talking about are Forte Agent and Napster.

Rob