So far...

[dwolf]

So I loaded Vista on a new second hard drive.. so far it runs fine. First
thing that really bothers me is windows mail not handling Hotmail...
At the moment, just like so many have advised, if XP works for you, stay
put.
To get every piece of software loaded onto vista I just don't think it's
really worth the time. I do like the eye candy, but is that enough.
So I will continue to just boot into XP.
I know there was something about the restore point problem, not that I
needed to restore in a long long time.. but If I leave Vista where it is and
just do XP.. is there a tweak the get the restore to work...

And is it a bad idea to use the Vista drive as a storage devise...

Joel

 

[Rock]

So I loaded Vista on a new second hard drive.. so far it runs fine. First
thing that really bothers me is windows mail not handling Hotmail...
At the moment, just like so many have advised, if XP works for you, stay
put.
To get every piece of software loaded onto vista I just don't think it's
really worth the time. I do like the eye candy, but is that enough.
So I will continue to just boot into XP.
I know there was something about the restore point problem, not that I
needed to restore in a long long time.. but If I leave Vista where it is
and just do XP.. is there a tweak the get the restore to work...

In a dual boot setup with Vista and XP if XP can see the Vista partitions
then when XP is booted it will delete the Vista restore points, file shadow
copies and some of the backups created by the Vista backup program. There
is no "tweak" to prevent this. The work arounds are well documented.
Either don't use a dual boot, don't boot into XP, or hide the Vista
partitions from XP. To hide them use Bitlocker or a 3rd party boot manager
such as BootIt NG.

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

And is it a bad idea to use the Vista drive as a storage devise...

It's not bad per see, it's just another drive, but if you hide it to work
around the system restore issue in the dual boot then it won't be
accessible.

 

[dwolf]

So for now if I only care about XP.. those restore points should be fine ??

 

[Rock]

So for now if I only care about XP.. those restore points should be fine
??

I'm not sure what you're asking. Which restore points should be fine? If
you boot into XP the restore points, file shadow copies and backups created
by _Vista_ are deleted. Nothing happens to XP's restore points, they are
not created by Vista.

 

[DP]

So I loaded Vista on a new second hard drive.. so far it runs fine. First
thing that really bothers me is windows mail not handling Hotmail...

I believe Outlook Express stopped handling Hotmail a couple of years ago. So
it's not a Vista thing. but it IS a Microscoft thing, so I think MS still
deserves some bashing on this. (I guess the point was to keep you returning
to the Hotmail or MSN sites, where they make some advertising bucks.)
I don't know if Outlook itself also stopped handling Hotmail.

 

[Lang Murphy]

I believe Outlook Express stopped handling Hotmail a couple of years ago.
So it's not a Vista thing. but it IS a Microscoft thing, so I think MS
still deserves some bashing on this. (I guess the point was to keep you
returning to the Hotmail or MSN sites, where they make some advertising
bucks.)
I don't know if Outlook itself also stopped handling Hotmail.

Outlook still handles http mail servers...

Lang

 

[xfile]

Hi,

2 cents,

Windows Mail handles MSN/Hotmail accounts with POP3/IMAP and SMTP, but you
need to be a paying customer to have those two. Also, it is now called
Live.com and you need to switch to the new mail server.

You need Windows Live Mail Desktop (still in beta) to handle HTTP email
accounts.

What a deal, life is certainly complicated with Vista.