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How can I have a selection at boot to select one of 2-1600 X 1200 desktops?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Jim Christian, 2003/04/21.

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  1. 2003/04/21
    Jim Christian

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    I want to dedicate a DVD burn session in a XP desktop that has nothing but what XP wants running and then use another desktop for all my other stuff, which has lot running and seems to cause a DVD-X-Copy problem.

    Hitting F8 to go to the Safe Mode jumbles my desktop icons as I run the desktop in 1600 X 1200 and I assume the safe mode is in 640 X 480.

    How can I have a selection at boot to select one of 2-1600 X 1200 desktops?
     
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  2. 2003/04/22
    PeteC

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    Hi Jim,

    Seems to me that you need to create another User purely for the purpose of burning DVD's. I could well be wrong on this - it's not an area of XP I've had the need to use and hopefully someone else will also post.

    Re. jumbled icons - you may find IconSaver from

    http://www.iconsaver.com just the thing to sort this out - works for me :)
     
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  4. 2003/04/22
    Newt

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    I thought the same thing PeteC. Seemed reasonable so I gave it a try. The vid settings evidently are not one of the things that are user specific. At least not any way I tried it.

    Jim - there may be a more elegant way of doing what you want but the only one I can figure out at this point is to have two different loads of the OS so you can pick from the boot.ini list which one you want to load.

    If you have room, that might not be a bad option. You could have the main one you use set as the default but leave maybe a 5 to 10 second pause at boot time when you could pick the other OS load. They shouldn't cause each other problems. And they can certainly work with the same data files. Just need to have the apps loaded in each OS.
     
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  5. 2003/04/23
    Arie

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    That's correct. You can't have multiple users having different resolution settings (without 3rd party software). But his question was for the same resolution, so setting up multiple users should still work.
     
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    Newt

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    Thanx for catching that Arie. I just mis-read the thing. Several times.
     
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