System Restore points

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:30:29 -0500, "RalfG" <itsnotme DeleteThis @ladeda.deda>
wrote:

>If you happen to dual boot Vista with XP the Vista restore points will be
>erased every time you boot into XP unless the XP registry has been edited to
>prevent it happening.

I didn't know that. Can you explain a bit further, or point me to a
document to read, please?

Thanks, Wolfgang.
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"Wolfgang Sirges" wrote in message news:okrmq35pi8t2ush8e8scqfvqgsm4ba4gaa@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:30:29 -0500, "RalfG" <itsnotme.DeleteThis@ladeda.deda>
> wrote:
>
>>If you happen to dual boot Vista with XP the Vista restore points will be
>>erased every time you boot into XP unless the XP registry has been edited to
>>prevent it happening.
>
> I didn't know that. Can you explain a bit further, or point me to a
> document to read, please?
>
> Thanks, Wolfgang.

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html
System Restore points and other recovery features in Windows Vista are affected when you
dual-boot with Windows XP

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/07/14/441829.aspx
How restore points and other recovery features in Windows Vista are affected when you dual-boot
with Windows XP


There is a "fix" or workaround which was just recently released.
I just saw it the other day and meant to make a post about it.
This was a huge deal for me back when I was beta testing Vista,
since I no longer dual-boot on any of my computers, I hadn't paid
attention to the outcome. We all had been told by Microsoft developers
this problem was not going to be fixed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/127417-system-restore-points-stop-xp...al-boot


-Michael