Linking Vista to my XP


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Okay, so ive installed Vista Beta 1...

its pretty sweet looking :)

Dual booted it with XP :)

anyways... i dont want to have two seperate My Documents folders and two seperate desktops...

How do i link them, sO that both desktops point to C:\Documents and set... etc

and My Documents do the same?

I've managed to do it before, but i seem to have forgotten...

Thanks for ur help :)

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(Bear in mind I don't have vista, and I don't know whether XP folders are compatible with Vista)

For my documents have you tried properties>target and changing the target to 'C:\*' where * is the location of your XP Document folder? Desktop is trickier as it doesn't allow you to change the location of it (at least not in XP).; the only things I can suggest is either copy it across to the Vista partition and replace the Vista Desktop file with it (personally I wouldn't do this as it creates duplicates of the files thus wasting space), or create a short cut on your Vista desktop to the XP desktop.

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Or change your Vista profile address to the same one as XP but then the themes would get messed up and other stuff to.

Honestly, I don't think you can share a Desktop between both OS's.

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Thanks... ill be sure to give it a whirl then i get Vista to start again!

id assume its because my sound drivers are incompatible.. but ill look at it later on :)

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It won't work. It would probably screw quite a few things up. The most you should do is simply point My Documents & Documents to the same places...

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well the documents sure work... and, as for the darn desktop.... well just a shortcut to the specific folder i wanted did the trick... the rest of my programs i just remade shortcuts...

sO yeh, thanks a ton guys... we're all sorted now :)

all i haveta dO is get my sound to work...

:) thanks

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Windows Vista uses the folder structure "C:\Users\*Profile Name*" and My Pictures and My Music are no longer located in the My Documents folder either.

Vista also dropped the "My" in from of folder names too.

I'm also pretty sure that meshing 2 seperate installs onto the same partition is a no no in terms of functionality for the OS. You are bound to overwrite an important forlder or something.

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Use TweakUI for WinXP to change the locations to the corresponding locations on the Vista partition.

To do that, you must use a partition management tool to mount the Vista partition so that WinXP can see it.

That should solve it. I did it with my WinXP install and Vista install.

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Okay, so ive installed Vista Beta 1...

its pretty sweet looking :)

Dual booted it with XP :)

anyways... i dont want to have two seperate My Documents folders and two seperate desktops...

How do i link them, sO that both desktops point to C:\Documents and set... etc

and My Documents do the same?

I've managed to do it before, but i seem to have forgotten...

Thanks for ur help :)

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dual booted?

like having both OS's running at the same time on the same system?

if so cool! how?

or you talking about the boot screen scoosing which os to run

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