If MS had intentionally gone out of their way to make something extremely difficult to understand, they could consider themselves a GREAT SUCCESS!:-) In the good old XP days you could go into the Control Panel System applet and simply edit the startup string to say whatever you wanted. After a considerable bit of self torture attempting to learn how to do the same thing with this 'new improved' BCDEDIT, I'm coming here in the hopes somebody can offer a simple explanation. ![]() Since I have both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Win 7 installed in addition to XP, when I power up I see the following: 'Earlier version of Windows' 'Windows 7' 'Windows 7' I wish to simply change the two 'Windows 7' entries so that one says 'Windows 7 - 32 bit edition' and the other says 'Windows 7 - 64 bit edition'. Now you have to admit that's a pretty simple thing to want to do. Why has MS gone so far out of its way to make something so simple so difficult? Years ago I had a chemistry prof who said 'any idiot can make something complicated, it takes some smarts to make something simple'. Doesn't MS have anybody with any smarts any more?:-( A good simple solution would be to put the Edit button back on that System startup applet, but I'd be more than happy to have a command line string to get the job done. Thanks again, KeithG2. Sure would be nice if they'd just put that EDIT button back on the advanced settings window of the SYSTEM applet, wouldn't it!:-) I have to say the ease of installation with Win 7 32 bit version is a vast improvement over Vista, but MS is still doing things like this BCDEDIT and making you change BIOS settings for the 64 bit version which is the kind of thing that gave Vista such a bad reputation a year or two ago. It's also a reason why their stock hasn't gone anywhere since Vista came out.:( Oh well, at least we have these forums to get help. This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2010) () The process of, and their successors differs from the startup process part of. New Windows Vista Boot Loader Components. The Windows Vista Boot Configuration Store Editor can add, delete, edit, and append entries in the BCD store. Adding Boot Entries.. And Windows Vista. In Windows, new boot loader entries are not added to the boot menu. Edit Share Twitter; LinkedIn. In Windows Vista and. Modifying the Windows 7 boot loader with the Boot Configuration Data Editor. As the utility to use when editing boot loader. In Windows Vista and. Modifying the Windows 7 boot loader with the Boot Configuration Data Editor. As the utility to use when editing boot loader. In this article, unless otherwise specified, what is said about 'Windows Vista' also applies to all later NT operating systems. For Windows Vista, the loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on ), accesses the Boot Configuration Data store and uses the information to load the. Then, the BCD invokes the boot loader and in turn proceeds to initiate the. Contents • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Windows Vista introduces a complete overhaul of the Windows operating system loader architecture. The earliest known reference to this revised architecture is included within slides distributed by during the of 2004 when the operating system was codenamed 'Longhorn.' This documentation mentions that the Windows operating system loader would be undergoing a significant restructuring in order to support and to 'do some major overhaul of legacy code.' The new boot architecture completely replaces the architecture used in previous versions of. Boot Configuration Data [ ]. Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) with Windows 7 highlighted and options to load Windows Vista through BOOTMGR and XP through NTLDR.
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