[Ccleaner's registry cleaner and Windows multiboot computers]

There are experts that advise against allowing a drive letter for the non-active partion.

 

I believe that XP and Vista have different ways of dealing with System Volume Information.

You really need to ensure that XP is not trying to monitor the Vista partition, and vice versa.

 

I believe Vista can do more extreme damage to XP.

 

If you are happy to run the risk, you should be able to run Defraggler under XP and fully defrag everything in Vista whilst no "files are in use",

and similarly run under Vista to defrag XP.

 

I would be happy to hear your results,

and will know it was a bad idea if you fail to return

 

Would you please defiine "monitor the Vista partition"?

 

No heartburn here about running Defraggler as you suggested, I do that occasionally anyway. And, it was time to do it again.

 

It still runs! I can't offer an opinion if it's faster, though, as I never pay any attention to watching how fast it boots up. When I turn that computer on, I'm usually doing something on this one at the same time.

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Thanks.

 

 

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[Ccleaner's registry cleaner and Windows multiboot computers]

Is there something in the registry that could relate to a multiboot installation that Ccleaner may think should be removed?

[Ccleaner's registry cleaner and Windows multiboot computers]

I have a competing commercial registry cleaning program. I ran that program on a computer that has XP Pro and Vista Ultimate installed. XP is on C:\ and Vista is on D:\. I ran the program under XP, and later when I ran the computer under Vista, Vista appeared to undo some changes made by the commercial registry cleaning program.

 

I used the online chat helpline for the commercial program, and learned the program was not designed to work on multiboot computers.

 

Question:

 

Does Ccleaner recognize and/or check to see if the computer has more than one OS installed? What if the OS is not a Windows OS?

 

 

Thanks.