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System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete How to Stop System Restore Points from being Deleted in Vista when Dual Booting with XP Published by Brink 02-06-2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member | Re: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete Wonderful overview--THANK YOU! Shawn, do you know if need to install Vista BEFORE adding this reg tweak, but before rebooting to XP? Noel |
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| Administrator | Re: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete Hi Noel, Yes, Vista will need to be installed first. Afterwards, just boot into XP and apply the reg tweak to hide Vista from XP. Shawn |
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| Newbie | Hello, I run a Dual Boot XP and Vista . I had the described problem : the restore points of Vista deleted by XP . I applied the suggested fix in the registry and the restore point problem is solved. BUT now from time to time (not always) when running XP and I request a restart I receive a black screen and the PC reboots... no "Saving your settings" , no "Shutting down" window anymore ... ![]() When I request a shutdown I have the "saving your settings" and "shutting down" windows; Any recommendation? Thanks in advance. |
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| Administrator | Re: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete Hi Emile, Welcome to Vista Forums. ![]() This is usually related to when you have something running in the background and how long it takes for XP to shut them down when you click Shutdown or Restart. When nothing is running, it can shutdown very quickly. I believe XP has these same settings as Vista. Add a bit more to the WaitToKillServiceTimeout string value name to allow for more time for XP to shutdown things. The default in Vista is 20000, you might try bumping it up to 25000. Shutdown Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| Newbie | Re: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete Hello Brink, Just to clarify when I request a "restart" in XP and the problem happens I receive immediatly the black screen and PC reboots ![]() The PC does NOT wait. |
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| Administrator | Re: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete Emile, My apologies, it should still apply to Restart since it calls for XP to shutdown first, then restart. |
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| Newbie | Hi Brink, I did apply the suggested modification to my XP registry and , up to now, all seams OK Thanks |
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| Administrator | Re: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete You're welcome Emile. Glad that it is working ok for you now. Shawn |
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| Member | Re: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete Chicken and egg: How do you apply this fix to XP from Vista without booting into XP first? I'm thinking that doing a "Load Hive" in Vista's regedit would be the way, but I'm not sure and am not comfortable doing that (though I do use regedit frequently for more normal things). |
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