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• bcdedit and testsigning mishap

  I recently used bcdedit from an elevated command prompt to turn 'testsigning' on so I could load a custom driver. Much to my dismay, when I rebooted nearly all of my drivers were ignored by windows,…

• Boot from VHD with windows7 - bcdedit trouble

  I'm running Windows7 Enterprise, x64 version. I've created a windows7 vhd file with help of the following blog post hanselman blog After that, I've added it to my boot menu with help of another b…

• What does BCDEdit do?

  My new Windows 7 installation fails to boot. At Microsoft support page, I found this howto (using the Windows 7 Recovery Disc): bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup C: cd boot attrib bcd -s -h -r r…

• What are the dangers of manually setting IncreaseUserVA?

  I run visual studio 2010 on a 32bit system and regularly run into issues with running out of virtual memory so I can no longer do things like copy / paste in VS. I checked out a few options and t…

• Questions after overwriting Vista with Windows 7

  I recently overwrote Vista with Windows 7. However, I'm still offered the option the dual boot when I start up my computer. I've removed the windows.old file, and I'm wondering now what I need to do…

• Does SuperFetch affect dwMemoryLoad percentage and clash with smart memory management?

  If you use GlobalMemoryStatusEx to get statistics, one is dwMemoryLoad which is the approximate percentage of physical memory in use. Is memory that SuperFetch has consumed added to dwMemoryLoad? I'…

• Is it possible to get Windows 7 installed on a laptop with Vista Home Basic?

  My laptop is Acer EXtensa 5620Z purchased within 2 years with Vista Home Basic installed. I wish to try out Windows 7. Are there any expenses involved in the change over please ?

• how to make a windows folder "virtual" like you can with directories in Linux using tmpfs?

  I want to make certain directories in Windows Vista/7 "virtual" so they are stored completely in memory and emptied when the machine is powered-down. With Linux, you just need to add a line in your …

• Runing bcdedit from python in Windows 2008 SP2

  I do not know windows well, so that may explain my dilemma ... I am trying to run bcdedit in Windows 2008R2 from Python 2.6. My Python routine to run a command looks like this: def run_prog…

• The bcdedit export operation fails. windows vista not booting

  I'm fixing my boot record with bootrec.exe, the first command goes: C:\>bcdedit /export c:\BCD_Backup Immediately I receive this error here: The store export operation has failed. The r…