John,
Do you like VMware or VPC '07?
cuz with VPC '07 I don't see those perf hits,
but no usb support either-like VMware has.
Jeff
"John Barnett MVP" <freelanceit@mvps.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> I've actually tried hiding the Vista partition but found that it didn't
> work, which was quite disappointing. In the end I reverted to using the
> bitlocker encryption method. Although i still use the dual boot i have now
> installed VMware Workstation 6 beta onto Vista and installed a copy of XP
> onto the Virtual PC.
> While i do like VMware workstation i am not so keen on the length of time
> it takes to load its drivers as it does add 15 to 20 seconds to boot up
> and, until the drivers are actually loaded and the internet activity icon
> has fully initialised it is difficult to get access to the internet. But
> VMware Workstation 6 is still in beta so hopefully this delay may be
> resolved.
>
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> "I.P. Nichols" <NoSpan@nada.com> wrote in message
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>> For certain reasons I have chosen to dual boot XP and Vista and not to
>> hide the Vista drive so as to prevent XP from removing Vista's system
>> restore points. Until recently I would manually create a restore point
>> each time I returned from XP to Vista. Lately I have been using a script
>> that creates a daily restore point on starting Vista as discussed in this
>> article. While the article was written for XP, I find it works equally
>> well in Vista.
>>
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/checkpoints.htm
>>
>> Even if you aren't interested in using the technique, the article has an
>> good description of when automatic restore checkpoints are created.
>