Games and Dual Booting.
 

I'm dual booting Windows Vista Ultimate with Windows XP Professional. Windows XP plays games much better than Vista so whenever I want the most performance all I need to do is reboot. Some games can be transfered from one OS to another without needing to be reinstalled. For example I've had the same installation of WoW on my PC through Windows XP > 2000 > XP > Vista > XP and it ran with no issues at all. Other games are annoying and need to be reinstalled because they cant play if the OS is missing their registry keys. Thats no big problem for normal games as long as you can back up your saved data. However, MMORPGs are a pain in the ass. I can't play FFXI under XP and I REALLY don't want to reinstall that behemoth and spend 8 hours downloading updates.


Bottom line, my question is does anyone know of a way to copy registry keys from one OS to another for PC games? Or in other words, a faster way around reinstalling gigantic games that need to be updated.

No, it probably won't work because registry keys are scattered all over the place. Adding to that is the fact that, I believe XP and Vista handle the registry quite differently. Why doesn't FFXI work on XP though - I've run it in the past on XP...

FFXI didn't work on XP because I installed it under Vista. Thus I would have had to reinstall the game and download all the updates again for it to work on XP. Totally not worth it.

*mini-rant*
Unfortunately, I canceled my FFXI trial account so it wouldn't bill me at the end of the month. But I didn't know they won't let you continue playing afterwards like normal accounts, so the game was canceled that same day. [GG Square /FFXI Uninstall] Back to good ol' trustworthy WoW.