Vista and Xp

vonfeldt7 · 10-23-2007, 05:27 AM

My Dimension E521 came with Vista Home Premium (32 bit) installed, and my parents have a Dimension 2400. Well I found their OS Disk (Xp Home) and installed it on my computer (dual booting with Vista).

Well I don't want both because it's annoying having files in two different places (Even though I can browse both partitions from either OS) so what should I do?

Delete Vista, delete Xp, or just keep both? What are advantages of Xp, vista? Disadvantages?

My other question, is if I do keep both, I will be able to play games that are installed in the vista partion while in XP(and vice versa)...but will I experience any fps loss by doing this?

patrickv · 10-23-2007, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by vonfeldt7

Delete Vista, delete Xp, or just keep both? What are advantages of Xp, vista? Disadvantages?

Am pretty sure that Pc is vista capable so keep it, it's better to have vista,well there won't be much advantages, but XP will get more of your job done, cause you know vista right now have...cough..cough...issues..cough

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Originally Posted by vonfeldt7

My other question, is if I do keep both, I will be able to play games that are installed in the vista partion while in XP(and vice versa)...but will I experience any fps loss by doing this?

Yes you can play games cross partition, but it really depends on the game itself, for example there are games that requires file from registry and windows folder so not seeing those folders the game won't run but there are games which run purely from Program file. Conclusion ? depends, but whatever suites you, if i were you i'd go XP then later when the SP comes out i'll go vista

cheers

PC eye · 10-23-2007, 05:44 AM

You should have bought a separate XP disk for your own machine there. With the newer Dell seeing Vista that can easily be restored if you get hit with a virus of some type and all needed drivers are available. Most games except a few will install onto VIsta even some that are several years old.

While most think Vista uses more memory it is actually from the new Super Fetch feature that preloads the most used games and programs into a form of standby mode. What that does is see the things you use the most actually load faster.

On each installation of Windows despite version you have to individually install each game or app just as though there was no other OS installed. That means installing things twice one for each version.

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vonfeldt7 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Middle of nowhere, Kansas Age: 17 Posts: 994	Vista and Xp My Dimension E521 came with Vista Home Premium (32 bit) installed, and my parents have a Dimension 2400. Well I found their OS Disk (Xp Home) and installed it on my computer (dual booting with Vista). Well I don't want both because it's annoying having files in two different places (Even though I can browse both partitions from either OS) so what should I do? Delete Vista, delete Xp, or just keep both? What are advantages of Xp, vista? Disadvantages? My other question, is if I do keep both, I will be able to play games that are installed in the vista partion while in XP(and vice versa)...but will I experience any fps loss by doing this? __________________ CPU [Intel Q9450] CPU GFX [Evga 8800GT] GFX RAM [G.Skill 4GB @ 1000MHz] RAM MOBO [Asus Maximus Formula] MOBO Last edited by vonfeldt7; 10-23-2007 at 05:32 AM.

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10-23-2007, 05:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,803	You should have bought a separate XP disk for your own machine there. With the newer Dell seeing Vista that can easily be restored if you get hit with a virus of some type and all needed drivers are available. Most games except a few will install onto VIsta even some that are several years old. While most think Vista uses more memory it is actually from the new Super Fetch feature that preloads the most used games and programs into a form of standby mode. What that does is see the things you use the most actually load faster. On each installation of Windows despite version you have to individually install each game or app just as though there was no other OS installed. That means installing things twice one for each version.