Tips: Vista and WinXP share system resources

In the time of surfing the Internet, everyone is used to adding commonly used URLs to the favorites, but the location of the favorites of the two operating systems is different, it is very inconvenient to use, in fact, we can also let the dual system share one Favorites, how to achieve this?

Nowadays, it is common to use Vista and XP to form a dual system, so that when you encounter compatibility problems under Vista, you can also go to XP to run. After installing the dual system, the space of the hard disk is much less and less, because the space required by the Vista system is very large. In fact, we can share some resources of the system, that is, the two operating systems use the same resource, so that Save a lot of space, and you can also install a lot less software.

Shared Virtual Memory

Microsoft's operating system has a large "Pagefile.sys" file, which is a virtual memory file, which is available in the root of the system partition. In fact, we share a virtual memory file when using Windows Vista and XP dual system, which can reduce the space occupied by the system.

Log in to the Vista system, right click on the "Computer" icon on the desktop to select the "Properties" item, click on the left side of the "Properties System Settings" in the open properties window, then Open the “System Properties” window, click the “Advanced” tab, and then click the “Settings” button under the “Performance” option, then click ““Virtual Memory” in the pop-up window. ;Change the ” button.

In the pop-up "virtual memory" window, "automatically manage the paging file size of all drives", remove the front hook, select the partition where the Vista system is located, and then select the following "No" Paging file & rdquo;, then click the “Settings" button. Then select “C drive”, then select “system management size", click “set” button, so you can set Vista virtual memory to the Windows XP installation partition.

Finally, we click on the "Dynamic Memory" button in the "Determine" button, a prompt window will pop up, indicating that the C drive already exists "Pagefile.sys", whether to replace, click “ Yes, the button is ok.

Sharing Favorites

In the time of surfing the Internet, everyone is used to adding commonly used URLs to favorites, but the location of the two operating systems is different, and it is very easy to use. Inconvenient, in fact, we can also let the dual system share a favorite.

First log in to XP, open “C:Documents and Settings usernameFavorites”, copy this Favorites folder to other partitions, such as “f: Favorites”, then open “Run” In the window, type "regedit", press Enter to start the Registry Editor, and then expand "HKEY_USERSS-1-5-21-343818398-1767777339-725345543-1003SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell Folders", (a string of numbers for the user code, each The computer is different.) Find the "Favorites" item in the right window and change its value to “f: avorites”.

Then log in to the Vista system. Since the default "Run" option is not displayed in the Start menu, we can press the shortcut key "Win Key + R" to open & ldquo; Run & rdquo ; window, enter “regedit”, press Enter to start the registry editor, expand according to the above key values, also find "Favorites" in the right window, change its value to "f: avorites", This way the XP and Vista systems share a single favorite.

Shared Temporary Folders

Temporary folders are usually spam files generated automatically by the system. In fact, when using dual systems, we can use Vista and XP to use the same temporary file. Clips, which saves space and makes it easy for us to clean up junk files.

In the Vista system, right click on the "Computer" icon on the desktop to select the "Properties" item. In the window that opens, click on the right side of the "Advanced System Settings" in the "System" Click the “Advanced” tab in the Properties & rdquo; window and click the "Environment Variable" button at the bottom of the window.

Next, select “TEMP” under the current user variable in the pop-up "Environment Variables" window, and then click the "Edit" button to set its variable value to the new temporary file. Clips, such as “f: emp” Similarly, we enter Windows XP again, and use the same method to set the location of the TEMP of the XP system to "f: emp", so that the two operating systems share a temporary folder.

Sharing temporary folders

For some software, such as QQ, FlashGet, online games and other software, even if you change the system, you can run it. At this time, we only need to install it in one operating system. As long as you create a shortcut to the software in an operating system, you can run it directly.