Thread: (Vista) Boot Manager instead of (XP) Windows Advanced Options Menu

I work for a satellite office of a nonprofit which is headquartered in another city. I am the de facto IT guy here. Recently, a colleague received a new Dell Latitude E5500. I was asked to help her set it up (transferring documents, IE Favorites, etc. from the old laptop and installing drivers for the three printers she uses). Everything is working just fine; I'm just curious about one particular thing. Although the PC was purchased with...

Try EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Daave wrote: Quote: > I work for a satellite office of a nonprofit which is headquartered in > another city. I am the de facto IT guy here. > > Recently, a colleague received a new Dell Latitude E5500. I was asked to > help her set it up (transferring documents, IE Favorites, etc. from the > old laptop and installing drivers for the three printers she...

Hi Daave With Vista, Microsoft released a set of imaging tools called Windows AIK (free download). With WAIK you can make WinPE boot media. This WinPE Boot media contains a utility called bootsect. You can run bootsect to fix your boot sectors: bootsect /nt52 C: /mbr This should fix your boot environment to the old nt52 (WinXP) style. I can't check now, but perhaps the same utility exists on the Vista boot medium, when you boot into...

Daave - applications cannot be installed via a separate "image" containing only the applications. An image for the deployment/installation of windows can included applications. From your post "... someone from HQ laid down an image which has all the licensed software ...." - it appears that Vista is installed and not XP. Also may be that the HQ image included group policy restrictions concerning access to...