I installed XP Pro then I installed Vista Ultimate. I am already booting into both normally but I was wondering if I could use VBP to just make XP the default OS and to change "Earlier Versions Of Windows" to Windows XP.

Thanks
Mark

P.S.

I found a good workaround to keep Vista restore points from getting deleted by XP. It's a pretty simple registry fix I found on Microsoft's help and support site. I can provide a link if anybody wants me to.

You can change the timeout time to say 5 or 10 secs and yes you can change the default boot name using VBP. Post the fix as I'm sure others would want to know too.

markcynt wrote:

I installed XP Pro then I installed Vista Ultimate. I am already booting into both normally but I was wondering if I could use VBP to just make XP the default OS and to change "Earlier Versions Of Windows" to Windows XP. Thanks Mark P.S. I found a good workaround to keep Vista restore points from getting deleted by XP. It's a pretty simple registry fix I found on Microsoft's help and support site. I can provide a link if anybody wants me to.

Actually, it's Vista that is deleting the Vista restore points, not XP, and it is due to security issues and is by design (What MS told us in the beta program). It was a common scenario for those dual/multi booting to have their Vista restore points deleted once they booted back to Vista. What was happening was Vista detected that another process (OS in this case) had accessed the drive in which the Vista restore points were located, although the XP OS could see and didn't do anything to those files, Vista detected that they were accessed in some way and were no longer valid, thereby which Vista deleted them.
Another fix I found for this in a dual boot system is to create the Vista partition while in XP, but NOT give the drive a letter; this way, when you boot to XP in a dual boot scenario, XP will not access the Vista drive where the restore points are located (Unless you move them to a drive letter XP can access) and when you boot back to Vista - your restore points are there. Yes, sortof sucks if you want full access regardless of the OS you are in................. buy hey

I can't add the link because I have not had enough posts to this forum but it can be found Microsoft's Help And Support site. Just Google "No restore points are available." and it should be the first result.

Thanks

mark 's link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185
He is correct. It is XP (or other legacy OS's) which delete the restore points.

Yeah, that's kind of reverse of how it was explained to me when I submitted a bug for that issue. Or possibly I just misinterpreted what they said......lol