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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tony who wrote (14234)	11/15/2003 12:49:18 AM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

You certainly need to re-install ALL of your software under XP. Most Windows programs are quite dependent on the registry - and the registry settings are typically set-up during installation. Further, many installs install components that they depend-on in the system directory - and these would be missing for XP if you did not install the software under XP. If you are expecting your software that you previously installed under 98 to simply work under your XP installation, you are in for a rude shock! There are further complications in that in some cases there are files that are OS-dependent, and the install program will install different versions depending on the OS. There really is very little reason to do an installation in this manner. It doesn't save you anything in terms of installation time - since you need to re-install everything. You really need to treat XP and 98 as completely seperate, and you might as well have installed them in seperate partitions. You can sometimes save disk space by installing a program on one OS, the booting the other OS and installing it right back over itself in the same location. IF you really, really know what you are doing, and if that particular program lends itself to this approach with no conflicts. This way, the registry gets set-up in both OSs, and any needed system components get installed in both OSs system directories. But it ain't worth the trouble, IMO.