Re: Losing Restore Points

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No, there's no built-in dual boot on any computer (that I've heard of).
If you want to do this, you'll have to install the second operating system. And you'll have to have a license for both. It's easiest to do this if you have XP installed first, then install Vista.


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"silver hair" <silverhair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B8D8A5EC-60B4-487E-8006-223459E9B53F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi, just a comment
everybody talks about dual boot in vista
is there a dual boot build in,
in a Factory installed Vista computer?
With XP some where in there?



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"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

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> "Alfred Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I run Vista 64bit SP1 with all the latest updates and I am losing
>> restore points. If I check for restore points it tells me there are
>> none and even if I manually create a restore point it is gone if I
>> want to restore. I do have plenty of space on the hard drives and I
>> have searched to see if there is an option somewhere that I need to
>> set.
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>> It is a nice feature when testing new programs or drivers and I would
>> like to get it back. Ahyone know what is going on here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Al
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> If you dual-boot, you will lose your Vista restore points. I used to > lose
> my WinXP restore points as well, but SP-3 seemed to fix that for XP.
>
> net


MS published a KB outlining how to avoid XP messing with Vista VSS files
(including restore points).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

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