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phudgey
05-05-2008, 11:43 AM
Is it atall possible for me to dualboot with the same operating system?
the reason i ask is because i want one boot soley for graphics (max, photoshop, vray and after effects and thats basically it) but i want another boot where i can have all my media apps, games, office ect ect.
this way i'm hoping the graphics boot's registry will stay completely un-cluttered but i can still play games on the other one.

Any advice would be great.

Please do not suggest i try vista, installed it last night and i want to gouge my eyes out with blunt sticks!! its overly bloated with rubbish max barely starts at all let alone working with huge files....
BOXXlabs
05-05-2008, 03:31 PM
Umless you have any programs that don't for some reason like XP64, you should be fine simply running that.

At this point, I'd say 98% of 32 bit apps work great in XP64. And many Pro apps ship with both the 32bit and 64bit version on the installation disc.

Just make sure that any 3rd-party plugins you use are 64bit capible if you want to use the 64bit versions of your software appls.

Adam
BOXXlabs
Magnus3D
05-05-2008, 06:45 PM
Yeap, most of the stuff works just fine in XP64. Games included in that. I both play games and create 3d all in XP64 now and i'm about to ditch my XP32 installation.

To spare your registry from problems you can get a good uninstaller like Your Uninstaller 2008 and a good registry optimizer like TweakNow RegCleaner Pro. Both these programs does a good job keeping your system clean so you don't have to reinstall it as often as you normally would have to do.

/ Magnus
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