Windows XP beta 2 first time app install?

[JBoDEAN 0]

I have winme on my system now. I am going to install winxp beta 2 on a seperate fat32 partition. When it is installed, how do I go about installing programs that i have already installed in winme? Copy over them? Or do i not need to install the programs, just point to them in windows explorer and run them?

Thanks

[Four and Twenty 0]

Reinstall all programs on a separate partition. It is not a good idea to just point to them or install over them.

 

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My System

Dell Demension XPS T500 (SE440BX-2 Chipset)

Triple Boot

Windows Millennium Final Retail (c: FAT32)

Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1 (d: NTFS w/ 4K Clusters)

Windows Whistler Pro Beta 2 2462a (e: NTFS w/ 4K Clusters)

PIII 500 @ 512.8 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)

512 Megs PC100 SDRAM

Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM / Core & Mem Overclocked by 20 mhz)

Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)

3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card

Yamaha DS1 Integrated Audio

2 x Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controlers

2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 W/ 8K block size (for system)

1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage 1 NTFS partion w/ 4K Clusters)

40X LG CD Rom Drive

100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive

MS Explorer Mouse USB

MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB

Dell M770 17 inch CRT

Dell E550 15 inch CRT

[JBoDEAN 0]

Reinstall my apps on a seperate partition? So my OUTLOOK 2000 (part of office 2000) needs to be completely reinsalled on another partition? That will cause me to re-setup my whole email. There isn't another way/

 

 

BTW - Would you recommend me keeping my ME just for games, and Internet / Web Applications / Office / ETC for WINDOWS XP beta 2?

[Four and Twenty 0]

Well I had win me for playing games and win2k for doing work related stuff. Now I just use winxp beta 2 for everything. I keep Win2k around for some programs and defrag purposes. And i keep win me around for running cracks and stuff that run in dos mode and woln't run in winxp.

[JBoDEAN 0]

I ask because. About a week and a half ago, I clean formated my hd, got rid of win2k.and put winme on. Now I have the xp beta, and a lot of my crap is installed in ME. I am thinking of unistalling office, and my internet apps (mirc, ftp stuff, etc) and my web page software, and just running that in winxp.

 

I am heavy into Flight Sim 2000, and that ran terrible in win2k. I doubt it will run that good in xp, but it runs great in winme. So that is why I was looking at using winme just for gaming, and XP for everything else. Wonder how many people run a setup like this out there.

[clutch 1]

With complicated programs like Office, I would have to agree with four and twenty and say to reinstall the apps on a different partition. You can, however, point Outlook to your PST file in the other installation and have all of your email in one spot between both installs. Can't say how it would work for stability, but I think it should be fine.

 

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Regards,

 

clutch

[JBoDEAN 0]

Do you all think that this "setup" is a good way to go then for my home computer? Having WINME on for my games only.

Use winxp for Internet Apps / Office / and any applications or utilities? Leave winme strickly for gaming?

[Four and Twenty 0]

Yeah that sounds fine that is the way that I had it before but now that win xp runs all my games better than win me I never really use it anymore. Win me is good to have around for compatibility though so you might as well keep it. One of the main points of winxp is to be everything that me was and then some. You should test out you flight sim in xp you may be pleasantly surprised.

[JBoDEAN 0]

How is your "privacy" in winxp?

I heard that ms has a lot of access to your information / files.

[Four and Twenty 0]

you can lock down xp just as much as 2k the privacy issue is a nonissue

[ThC 129 0]

yeah i use XP for everything now i used to just use 2k with a lot of tweaks but with Whistler i dont even need half the tweaks because it runs so well

[Four and Twenty 0]

yeah i don't have to tweak xp nearly as much as win2k and i get much better performance in xp.