My questions:
1 - Is the indexing service good to have on a new system with Vista? I've heard both yes and no for XP, so I just wanted to know if something has changed.
2 - If I have both XP and Vista installed on the same HD, how can I permanently access the Users folder in XP?
Thank you!
Vista questions: indexing, accessing C:users from XP?
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1-I leave it on, I never notice it hogging resources, and I use the Start menu search all the time. The fact that it does in-line searching inside my work is great.
2-Your %system root%/c:/documents and settings/ folder won't go anywhere, and you can browse over to it. If you're trying to make things easy for multiple users, just stick a shortcut in the Start menu and another in the Documents folder that point to their XP My Documents.
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2-2-You can do some dragging and dropping of system folders in each operating system and they will both re-map their own registries to point to the right place. To make sure they all share the right folder in the right partition, you have to:
Back up the information by copying it to a different place, and do yourself a favor and burn it to a CD
Boot Vista. In Explorer, rename "documents" to "my documents". Then drag-and-drop, or cut/paste Vista's "my docs" over XP's "my docs". This might overwrite things, but Vista should prompt you to merge them.
Copy the files back into their respective folders. This will make XP use its defaults, and Vista use XP's.
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2-3-manually edit the registry entries that take care of this. I don't remember what they are in XP and haven't looked around in Vista. The crapular bit about this is that I know for a fact that this occasionally makes XP shit a brick and forget that it even has a "my docs" folder, and is only recommended if you need to map a very large number of users' folders.
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2-4-set yosef up a file shizzle, dog. Tell yo peeps ta love they shayd fodahs. True.
2-Your %system root%/c:/documents and settings/ folder won't go anywhere, and you can browse over to it. If you're trying to make things easy for multiple users, just stick a shortcut in the Start menu and another in the Documents folder that point to their XP My Documents.
or
2-2-You can do some dragging and dropping of system folders in each operating system and they will both re-map their own registries to point to the right place. To make sure they all share the right folder in the right partition, you have to:
Back up the information by copying it to a different place, and do yourself a favor and burn it to a CD
Boot Vista. In Explorer, rename "documents" to "my documents". Then drag-and-drop, or cut/paste Vista's "my docs" over XP's "my docs". This might overwrite things, but Vista should prompt you to merge them.
Copy the files back into their respective folders. This will make XP use its defaults, and Vista use XP's.
or
2-3-manually edit the registry entries that take care of this. I don't remember what they are in XP and haven't looked around in Vista. The crapular bit about this is that I know for a fact that this occasionally makes XP shit a brick and forget that it even has a "my docs" folder, and is only recommended if you need to map a very large number of users' folders.
or
2-4-set yosef up a file shizzle, dog. Tell yo peeps ta love they shayd fodahs. True.
I think you misunderstood me. If you install both XP and Vista you can't access Vistas C:Users from XP, for obvious security reasons. I wonder if I can remove that feature in Vista. Now I can move/copy folder from one OS to another (I'm not even sure that it works with Vista, but if you say so), but I'd like to just disable the -no access outside Vista- function in Vista.
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Huh, I'm catchin' what you're throwin' out. I'm not sure why you're having the problems, though. I switched back and forth for some time between Vista and XP and had full access to the files from both sides.
The only thing I ran into was forcing permissions open on to Vista on the XP partition; it's just a matter of taking ownership and changing the rights. Don't know how to help beyond that, but I can point you in a good direction:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
The only thing I ran into was forcing permissions open on to Vista on the XP partition; it's just a matter of taking ownership and changing the rights. Don't know how to help beyond that, but I can point you in a good direction:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx