I would not recommend sharing the Program Files directory between OSs,
particularly XP and Vista.
You can customize the Documents location by right clicking on Documents in
Explorer and then going to Location.
steve
"Piotr Wozniacki" <p.wozniacki@wp.pl> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm dual-booting the Vista Business x64 with XP Pro (and will for some
> time, untill most aplications run flawlessly on Vista
. For disk space
> efficiency, I'd like to keep a Program Files folder in a common place
> (partition) for both OS'es - how do I do it? Of course, only the Vista's
> Program Files (X86) should be physically the same as the XP's Program
> Files...
>
> Similarly, I'd like the My Documents folder to be physically the same
> place (on a separate partition, preferrably).
>
> Thanks for you suggestions!
>
> Piotr