Vista's Shadow Copies

...and as for leaving traces... even changes to a hidden volume will be noted as disk writes and hence recorded by Vista's "improved" System Restore/Volume Snapshot/ShadowCopy functionality - the only way you can stop that is to put any such file containers on another partition (or turn it off - it's pretty useless for small and full drives such as laptops anyway).

Second post today... no rant! Getting better