How do you do dual boot without Dual...

I know this has been discussed but I can't find the post called Daryl Pritchard, ''Activating CS3 with both Vista and XP Pro on same system'' #3, 21 May 2007 12:49 am .?That link seems to be dead.

I'm slow to make the switch, but I'm planning to install Vista on the same box I've had XP Pro on.?I have a LOT of software on this box (it normally takes 34 hours to install everything from scratch) including VIsual Studio (2003, 2005, 2008), Lotus Notes designer (R6.5, R8), 3D Studio Max, etc. etc. etc.?I'm not ready to flip the switch and just run the Vista upgrade.?I want to dual boot with XP on one partition and Vista on the other, so that I can boot to XP if something doesn't seem to be running correctly under Vista.

Here is my dilemna.?I also have Photoshop CS3 installed on my laptop, and I need it there because I travel every few weeks and still have to manipulate images.?I'd like to avoid deactivating licenses everytime I get on a plane or drive across town.?I don't want to have to use up both of my ''activations'' when I'm staying within the intent of the Eula - it's only going to be used on one machine.

How has everyone else faced this challenge??I know there are plenty of people with dual boot set ups.

I'll deactivate Photoshop on XP Pro if I have to, but that's going to be a headache if I have to turn on the laptop everytime I work in XP on the desktop and need to modify a PSD image.

How do you do dual boot without Dual...

I believe you can only deactivate/activate 20 times, precisely to keep

people from swapping the two licenses amongst more than 2 computers, so

deactivating on your travel-computer will only work for the next few times

you do it.

Depending on what things you do to your images, you might be able to get by

with using Elements to work with the PSDs. The newer versions of Elements

lets you work with Layers so it may be ok. Install the PSE trial and see

how well it works.

If you must have Photoshop, and one copy needs to be on your laptop, then

you must choose dual-boot you want to use it on, and perhaps install the

trial on the other bootable partition and if it works fine for everything,

and at the end of 30-days, choose which one to keep activated, or decide

that you can upgrade your XP. I think you should attempt to upgrade it,

anyway, just to see if it's even possible. I think you can uninstall the

upgrade if you do it right away, and get back to your XP...I had to do that

when my graphics card refused to work, even though the Vista Upgrade Advisor

didn't complain. Installing Vista from scratch seemed to work. I just

bought a new HD and reinstalled everything.

Another thing to consider is that Windows 7 will be available for retail

purchase before Halloween and people like it better than Vista as far as

running things faster, so maybe just skip Vista. The only glitch I had was

having to uninstall Nero's packet-writing (CDRW as a floppy) software after

I upgraded to Vista and it didn't quite work and I had to use a Nero-clean

utility to get rid of it. It isn't compatible with Win7 and I could have

gotten around the problem by merely uninstalling Nero before upgrading and

putting it back, afterwards. I have an older version of Nero was my actual

problem.

I am running the Win 7 Ultimate RTM from my MSDN subscription and like it a

lot...more transparency and they finally combined the quick-links with the

actual task-bar so you can just pin things down there and they are

highlighted if they're running or not highlighted if not--sort of like a Mac

has been doing for a while, but with much smaller icons if you want.

How do you do dual boot without Dual...

I've not tried this, as luckily I have enough licenses, but this strikes me more as an issue with Windows and its directories, more specifically separate installs not sharing them. Some thoughts on it: The licensing system is a combination of the harddrive finger print and the locked license files. The fingerprint?does not change, if both your Windows are on the same drive, assuming at the time of first activation everything was already in place. Based on that, the only difference would then be the locked licensing files, which may be possible to copy from one OS to the other, after activation was successful on one of the OSs. An alternate way might be to configure both OSs in that way, that they share the user directories and the Program Files directory via the group policy editor. It would be pretty risky, though, as changes would affect the OSs mutually. In any case, i have never tried any of that myself. Might work, might completely screw up things...

Mylenium

ssprengel wrote:

I believe you can only deactivate/activate 20 times

See: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2220481#2220481S

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