Dual Booting xp pro and Vista

[Vampirrella]

I have been using xp pro for a long time and recently got Vista home. So i installed Vista on a separate partition and it created a dual boot menu.

Now when i want to play any games that i had originally installed under xp, they dont work under vista. Am i supposed to reinstall these under vista again? No way to make the prior installed game work under vista with a short cut?

Thanks in advance!

 

[DrGreen2007]

Some might work, but your looking at installing them again.

new OS install = new program install

 

[corkyg]

Right - with dual boot - each OS is independent and must have software installed. They do not share a common Registry.

 

[Vampirrella]

Ok im glad thats cleared up, now i know what to do.

Now with regarding the vista install, why does vista (x64) take up 19 of my 21gb partition? What can i remove to trim off some of the bloat from this install? Or is this normal and i have to get used to it being this large?

 

[chronodekar]

Originally posted by: Vampirrella
Ok im glad thats cleared up, now i know what to do.

Now with regarding the vista install, why does vista (x64) take up 19 of my 21gb partition? What can i remove to trim off some of the bloat from this install? Or is this normal and i have to get used to it being this large?

:Q
Are those numbers right?!? I don't know about x64, but on my brothers x86 vista home, it takes around 10GB, (I think, I don't remember it well).

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

Yes, that's about Vista x64's install size.

Most PC games won't require a reinstall. Something that might be important is to have Vista and XP target the same Documents folder because that will contain My Games and a few game saves, likely.

 

[rudder]

I think most games will run fine. I originally installed steam on my XP64 partition. Since i Was lazy I just made a shortcut on my vista64 install to the same directory. Everything runs fine. I flip back and forth to different installs on occasion.

I've done this with a few older games as well.

 

[lucasautomacao]

You're usually able to open some applications from a different OS, but, for games, i guess you'd have to reinstall'em all...