Dual Boot ?

  • Thread starter Thread starter BChat
  • Start date Start date
B

BChat

I have Vista 5728 on drive 1 - I have XP Home on drive 0 - use VistaBootPro
to dual boot. This is my 1st experience at this.
My stupid questions of the day are - while I am booted to Vista, as I am
now, do the programs in XP continue operate as if I was booted to XP?
EX: Does AVG Free continue to do scheduled scans and updates?
OR: Do I have to be booted to a drive to have that drive's programs ''do
their thing''?
OR: Does it depend on the program?

Please stay tuned for more ''stupid questions of the day" - is there a limit
on SQOTD? ;-)
 
BChat said:
I have Vista 5728 on drive 1 - I have XP Home on drive 0 - use VistaBootPro
to dual boot. This is my 1st experience at this.
My stupid questions of the day are - while I am booted to Vista, as I am
now, do the programs in XP continue operate as if I was booted to XP?
EX: Does AVG Free continue to do scheduled scans and updates?
OR: Do I have to be booted to a drive to have that drive's programs ''do
their thing''?
OR: Does it depend on the program?

Please stay tuned for more ''stupid questions of the day" - is there a
limit
on SQOTD? ;-)
Click to expand...


The program operates under the operating system it was installed from. You
will need to install compatible antivirus programs etc. under Vista.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Posted via Vista RC1 5728

(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
AVG will not operate from the other partition.
No programs will be running from the other partition unless they are
specifically started by the booted o/s and even then, most will not run
without registry entries in the booted o/s
Assume nothing is running unless YOU started it.
 
John Barnes said:
AVG will not operate from the other partition.
No programs will be running from the other partition unless they are
specifically started by the booted o/s and even then, most will not run
without registry entries in the booted o/s
Assume nothing is running unless YOU started it.
Click to expand...

Some programs do run. I have managed to get Thunderbird, Firefox and Opera
to run from XP within Vista. Also other programs like Irfanview and
Paint.net both work.
 
Beck said:
Some programs do run. I have managed to get Thunderbird, Firefox and
Opera to run from XP within Vista. Also other programs like Irfanview and
Paint.net both work.
Click to expand...
They are not running from "XP". Xp is not running. You are simply running
a program on a different partition/folder.
Rob
 
in plain english, is 1GB been wasted, should i use it in some other pc, since
i am not planning to use x64 due to drivers pain in the neck thing
 
BChat said:
I have Vista 5728 on drive 1 - I have XP Home on drive 0 - use VistaBootPro
to dual boot. This is my 1st experience at this.
My stupid questions of the day are - while I am booted to Vista, as I am
now, do the programs in XP continue operate as if I was booted to XP?
EX: Does AVG Free continue to do scheduled scans and updates?
OR: Do I have to be booted to a drive to have that drive's programs ''do
their thing''?
OR: Does it depend on the program?

Please stay tuned for more ''stupid questions of the day" - is there a
limit
on SQOTD? ;-)
Click to expand...


The program operates under the operating system it was installed from. You
will need to install compatible antivirus programs etc. under Vista.


I have a complete set of programs installed in Vista on the Vista drive and
in XP on the XP drive.
I was wondering if the XP programs were updating etc. when I was booted to
Vista
 
Thanks John


AVG will not operate from the other partition.
No programs will be running from the other partition unless they are
specifically started by the booted o/s and even then, most will not run
without registry entries in the booted o/s
Assume nothing is running unless YOU started it.
 
What are you replying to? Why don't you rephrase in a separate thread?

FWIW, All memory is wasted when you are not using the computer or not doing
very much on it, so what's your point?
 
NO

BChat said:
The program operates under the operating system it was installed from. You
will need to install compatible antivirus programs etc. under Vista.


I have a complete set of programs installed in Vista on the Vista drive
and
in XP on the XP drive.
I was wondering if the XP programs were updating etc. when I was booted to
Vista
Click to expand...
 
No, they are only active when the OS is active.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBFL HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 700gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio
 
Thanks - my kind of answer.................


NO

BChat said:
The program operates under the operating system it was installed from. You
will need to install compatible antivirus programs etc. under Vista.


I have a complete set of programs installed in Vista on the Vista drive
and
in XP on the XP drive.
I was wondering if the XP programs were updating etc. when I was booted to
Vista
Click to expand...
 
"Richard Urban" wrote
Click to expand...
The program operates under the operating system it was installed from. You
will need to install compatible antivirus programs etc. under Vista.


I have a complete set of programs installed in Vista on the Vista drive
and
in XP on the XP drive.
I was wondering if the XP programs were updating etc. when I was booted to
Vista
Click to expand...

No because XP is not running.
 
in plain english, is 1GB been wasted, should i use it in some other pc,
since
i am not planning to use x64 due to drivers pain in the neck thing
Click to expand...

To whom / to what thread are you replying? If you have an extra 1GB of
wasted memory send it my way.
 
Back
Top