completely deleting vista computer

Sup, Say that somebody installed Vista on a seperate partition. Since it was installed, Vista must have written some registry codes in XP's registry and it must have written down some system files in XP's partition (including some hidden files). I was wondering how to COMPLETELY delete all these files after I remove/uninstall Vista from the computer.
Also, about the glass function on Vista; can you run this function with the ATI 200M graphics chip (have graphics enabled on 128MB shared with main system RAM which in total is 512MB) with 384MB system RAM (since it's shared with graphics)?

Not at all sure about your first question.
As to the graphics card. Technically, yes. However, you will be then dropping the system RAM well below the minimum threshold and have a good chance of a system crash. Spend the $40 and buy more RAM.
"KyuHan Kyeong - SushiMAN" wrote in message

Sup, Say that somebody installed Vista on a seperate partition. Since it was installed, Vista must have written some registry codes in XP's registry and it must have written down some system files in XP's partition (including some hidden files). I was wondering how to COMPLETELY delete all these files after I remove/uninstall Vista from the computer.
Also, about the glass function on Vista; can you run this function with the ATI 200M graphics chip (have graphics enabled on 128MB shared with main system RAM which in total is 512MB) with 384MB system RAM (since it's shared with graphics)?

Ah no, it doesn't write anything in XP. The only thing it writes is the hard drive MBR and it's own bootloader. Using XP boot cd, from the repair console, you just run fixmbr and fixboot. I've heard something called EasyBCD or something simplifies it even more if one wants to revert back to XP on a XP/Vista dual boot situation.
"KyuHan Kyeong - SushiMAN" wrote in message

Sup, Say that somebody installed Vista on a seperate partition. Since it was installed, Vista must have written some registry codes in XP's registry and it must have written down some system files in XP's partition (including some hidden files). I was wondering how to COMPLETELY delete all these files after I remove/uninstall Vista from the computer.
Also, about the glass function on Vista; can you run this function with the ATI 200M graphics chip (have graphics enabled on 128MB shared with main system RAM which in total is 512MB) with 384MB system RAM (since it's shared with graphics)?

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:42:23 -0400, Peter M wrote:

Ah no, it doesn't write anything in XP.

Apart from the stuff in C:\Boot you mean?
-- Chris Game

It must also do something to XP... at least when installed from there, i didnt have time to look into it, but if installation of vista fails a message is displayed upon rebooting back to xp letting you know about it.... i got this message a few times after failed installs and rollbacks
"Chris Game" wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:42:23 -0400, Peter M wrote:
Ah no, it doesn't write anything in XP.
Apart from the stuff in C:\Boot you mean?
-- Chris Game

KyuHan Kyeong - SushiMAN wrote On 7/12/2006 2:01 PM:

Sup, Say that somebody installed Vista on a seperate partition. Since it was installed, Vista must have written some registry codes in XP's registry and it must have written down some system files in XP's partition (including some hidden files). I was wondering how to COMPLETELY delete all these files after I remove/uninstall Vista from the computer.

Any other partitions visible to both Vista and XP will have Vista changes to the Recycle Bin and SVI (System Restore). You probably will have to fiddle with XP to get those back to what they were before.

Vista writes to a Boot folder in the XP systemroot. It is the boot configuration data store.
"CrAy-Z" wrote in message

It must also do something to XP... at least when installed from there, i didnt have time to look into it, but if installation of vista fails a message is displayed upon rebooting back to xp letting you know about it.... i got this message a few times after failed installs and rollbacks
"Chris Game" wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:42:23 -0400, Peter M wrote:
Ah no, it doesn't write anything in XP.
Apart from the stuff in C:\Boot you mean?
-- Chris Game