Chad Harris

Hi Cheddarhead--

We've really covered this extensively on this thread for over a year. It's
exactly as Rick says. Several of us have talked to MSFT about it, and they
felt given their time considerations, and the number of people that dual
boot relative to their users on the planet, and the amount of work that
would have been required to back port to correct the situation that it was
not worth it.

I honestly don't know how much work it would have taken but some people here
might have a better idea.

In the scheme of millions of users dual booting is not as common as it is
for most enthusiasts--probably a lot of the people you know and I know.

I love dual booting because when you've made folders and settings in an OS
that has lasted about 6 years, it saves time and real estate.

This may be redundant for you, but I want to make sure you know you can
shortcut from your Vista desktop to your XP desktop and although you can't
access XP's OE but can merge Outlook easily, you can access any file or
folder on XP from Vista with a couple mouseclicks.

I have also noticed(Win Mail must have undergone some kind of change) that
what I send to Winmail on Vista now shows up in OE mail in XP.

If you're on the Vista desktop (let's say it is on C:\ drive), you can reach
the XP desktop by using

[XP Drive Letter]\Documents and Settings\Cheddarhead's Profile\Desktop

and from your XP Dsktop you can access Vista by using

[Vista Drive Letter]Users\Cheddarhead's Profile\Desktop

This may reduce your need to actually have to boot to XP which I do from
time to time to make sure the AV is running correctly, etc.

If a file is really important, I just drag it from the XP desktop to Vista's
desktop or any folder I want it in. Sometimes I move them around to
different drives if I want more space on one drive and the folder is large.

If you do boot to XP's desktop, when you go back to your Vista boot, as a
reflex create a restore point manually.

Good luck,

CH



"Cheddarhead" <cheddarhead@excite.com> wrote in message
news:C72C0E76-E9FF-47F3-A646-2CB24BD7FFE0@microsoft.com...
> Anyone have any idea when microsoft is going to get around to fixing the
> flaw where if you dual boot xp and vista, once you load xp it delets all
> the vista restoer points... very annoyinh...\\
>
> Ciao