You can't manually do this babaloo. Much has been written about this on this
group from MSFT and from some good users and they have done it well. The
reason MSFT didn't change this is that it wasn't very feasible for them to
back port to get it done, and they felt that not that many people would dual
boot relative to the number of users they had. I disagree because I find
dual booting very useful when I have cultivated files and settings on a
prior OS for 6 years and always want to have it available without copying
them.

If you want a good explanation for what is going on here, I refer you to Dan
Stevenson's article on Jill Zoeller's blog. Dan works directly with the
System Restore Team and others closely related to it.

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

What’s wrong with my System Protection?
[url]http://tanveerbadar.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/whats-wrong-with-my-system-protection/[/url]

CH

"babaloo" <fac187********.com> wrote in message
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> These are good suggestions.
> It might be even simpler if Microsoft just allowed you to specify where
> the system restore files are saved so they are not seen by XP. I presume
> one can manually do this, or write a simple batch file that will do it on
> closing.
> That one would have to resort to any of this tells you all you need to
> know about programming decisions at Microsoft. If security was really a
> concern in the creation of Vista this idiot bug could not have been
> overlooked.
> What self-serving weanies.
> Booting to the XP desktop from Vista is not a solution for the millions of
> us for whom Vista simply does not work adequately for performing real,
> everyday tasks as opposed to endless twiddling with a defective operating
> system.
>
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