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Share Office2000 - 2 OS' on 1 machine?

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by theresa jones

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I have 3 partitions on a hdd. dev1 running XP Pro, dev2 running 2000 Pro. How can I get the two os' to share one installation of Office 2000 Pro? I don't have enough hdd real estate to do two installations and I can't seem to figure out how to export the CORRECT registry settings to import them into the other os' registry. HELP! This is somewhat critical as I seem to keep crashing XP Pro somehow and use 2000 as my reliable backup. PS The Office installation is currently placed under the XP install.

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by timwalsh

Bottom line is you can't get around installing the software under each OS.

However what you can do is install it in the exact same location for both OSes. Office doesn't have to be installed on the same partition as the OS, as long as the eachOS has access to the partition where office is installed. The only caveat is that the installation under each OS must have the exact same installation settings.

by theresa jones

Well, Tim - I already knew that part, my question probably was not phrased correctly. What I guess I was really asking was what registry settings could I export to trick 2000 into believing in already had been installed. After much peering around the registry it appears that I'm going to have to submit to doing another full install and update in 2000.
Thanks anyway.

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