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Software Description:
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About VistaBootPro, VistaBootPRO is an application used to make changes to the Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data (BCD) registry quickly and easily, in a fraction of the time it takes to use the alternative, which isthe command prompt based application bcdedit.exe, located in the Windowssystem32 folder of Windows Vista.
Designed for both beginners and advanced users, VistaBootPRO can be used to make "cosmetic"changes to the Windows Vista boot Menu such as changing the name of the Operating Systems shown inthe boot menu and make advanced "functional" changes like adding an Operating System to the boot menu and repairing the Windows Vista boot configuration data.
Advanced settings include backing upand exporting your boot loader configuration and modifying various details for the entries.
For those who have used bcdedit.exe in the past, you will be impressed with the ease of use and functionality that VistaBootPRO provides.
The Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store contains boot configuration parameters and controls how the operating system is started in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" operating systems.
These parameters were previously inthe Boot.ini file (in BIOS-based operating systems) or in the nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) entries (in Extensible Firmware Interface–based operating systems).
You can use the Bcdedit.exe command-linetool to affect the Windows? code which runs in the pre-operating system environment by adding, deleting, editing, and appending entries in the BCD store. Bcdedit.exe is located in the WindowsSystem32directory of the Windows Vista partition.
Why was there a change to BCD from Boot.ini?
BCD was created to provide an improved mechanism for describing boot configuration data. With the developmentof new firmware models (for example, the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)), an extensible and interoperable interface was required to abstract the underlying firmware.
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