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That's because they both boot into the NTLdr. Have a BCD option for "NTLDR", and edit Boot.ini on your very first partition to boot into what you want.

I know how to fix that problem if you can boot into some form of Windows. Whenever you resize the Vista drive, for some reason, the osdevice and device in the BCD get set to unknown, and the drive letter of Vista may change. Therefore, if you can somehow run BCDEdit, I can help you. For that, you can get BartPE without any plugins if you have already done the partitioning and just need to get it to boot. Does your Vista DVD boot at all? I don't care if Repair won't work - does the DVD boot to the GUI at all? In that case, when the graphics comes up, press Shift-F10. That's the command prompt. Then you can use BCDEdit. *Edit: I just noticed that thing about SATA. Then get BartPE, and make a CD. Then I'll tell you what to do.

Here are the other options... but I think it is way better to use Acronis Disk Director. If you can, could you please tell me how it messes up your installation, so I may be able to help you? BartPE: As it says, it boots into a Preinstallation Environment. You will still need some partition editor, and I recommended Acronis. Get some partition editor, google bartpe plugin *ParitionEditor*, and find a plugin for it. Then build a PE CD and boot from it. BartPE: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download Windows PE: Get the Business Deployment Desktop - connect.microsoft.com, then subscribe to the BDD 2007. Go to Downloads, and download the x86 version. It's around 700 MB, so it'll take some time. Install it, and build a PE environment, and then boot from the CD. Then you'll be in a Vista-like environment. For more details, look at the help files. Hope this helps.

Get Acronis Disk Director Suite. Either make a rescue disk on another computer, or download BartPE and Disk Director's plugin to do your work. If Vista boots, then you may encounter a problem where the drive letter is reassigned. In that case, google change system drive letter. *Edit: Or you could get the Business Deployment Desktop and build a Windows PE.

So that I can lower the UMA memory size.

When I try to edit the UMA memory size, my bios settings get reset (and password). How, can you programmatically do that? And why should that happen under XP?

Oh, and I forgot... GO NUHI!!!

It does not need to necessarily be in the HKLM key - it could be set by the Group Policy Service for the current user.

Nuhi, I saw your web site. You were asking for this. I haven't personally tried this (I have RC2), but I think it should work. Tell me if it works: In the Group Policy Editor (Run>gpedit.msc) go to User Config, System, and Driver Installation. Then go to the Signing option > Enable > Ignore. This sets a registry value in the CURRENT User: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{3E06FF5B-55F0-4C9D-8455-CA8D79FADCDC}User\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Driver Signing] "BehaviorOnFailedVerify"=dword:00000000 So I think you will need to change the Default User's registry.

Does this help? Right click Start Menu->Properties. Customize it so that it contains the Run dialog...

How do you kill a module in a process, without killing the process?

Wow... nice. So, for the Ultimate Extras, does RC2 get them too? And what exactly is Dreamscene?

That doesn't restore anything... I think this is the solution: For whatever power option you are using right now (Balanced, plugged in, etc.), turn off Hybrid Sleep.

Here's a question for the poster: Why can't you install the Viao Power Management in Vista? Any error? I could possibly help you

Do you mean write a program which will turn off all the eye-candy? That is not as effective as LCD backlight brightness, in my opinion. But I might implement it. FYI: I have ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.

This is a little off-topic, but I have a question: Why did Microsoft add so many features to Vista to make it slower, then added ReadyBoost and Superfetch and other stuff to make it faster? Why not just have a "fixed and cleaned" version of XP, instead of a WHOLE NEW INTERFACE WITH BUGS AND FLAWS?

I'm not that pro at APIs... I just need a template from which to copy and paste - and understand why it works. I am NOT a hardware guy (not even close). *Edit: I have tried API Monitor (without success) to monitor ALL API calls from ALL processes when I press Fn+F6 (which increases my screen brightness). But nothing comes up.

I tried - without success. It seems like the CreateFile("\\\\.\\LCD",...) (or whatever that string was) returns -1. Is it always named "\\\\.\\LCD" for laptops, or could it be something like MONITOR, DISPLAY, DEFAULTMONITOR, or something else instead of LCD?

OK... So do you think I should actually use my 1GB Flash Drive? Also, I know that readyboost does not add memory. 2 Questions, since that was brought up: 1. Then, for a 512MB RAM, why do we need more - 1GB? 2. Is there any program which will reinstall the flash drive driver so it will act like RAM? Wishful thought...

WOW! Thanks, I'll try and see if it'll work - in a few days or a couple weeks. THANK YOU!! P.S.: I also have problems with disabling devices - an example for that is also helpful. (OpenDriver, DriverProc, then CloseDriver; but the parameters are confusing.)

Oh... so the video is faked? My readyboost drive is a SanDisk 256MB, on my Compaq Presario V24xx notebook. Also, try this to see what I mean: Stop the ReadyBoost service, then don't do anything on your PC. Then, start it again. See the hard disk and readyboost drive activity? That's what I hate: it takes minutes to stop. (It's probably building the cache.)

True - bad idea. However, here's my problem: (Although since I dual boot with XP, I loaded the hive in XP and fixed it) My device drivers were messed up, so I needed to delete registry keys. However, even if you're an Administrator, some keys are off-limits and do not inherit permissions. So for a single key, you need to set ten (or more or less) permission, one per subkey. So I need System privileges, where I can schedule Regedit. I did this in XP, but Vista won't help. And the dual-boot thing is a mess for loading/unloading hives.

This is a little off topic, but: I love readyboost's intention. However, I hate its actions: It takes a long time to simply load the stuff on my flash drive - so it won't help during startup. In fact, it seems to make it worse as not only the system has to load, but the readyboost cache needs to be built up at the same time. Any ideas how to fix this? Right now my Readyboost is on Delayed Start, but as I said, Automatic doesn't seem to help. If it helps, I have a 512MB RAM laptop with 32MB Shared Video RAM. (Can't get any lower)

Does anyone know how to run an executable from Vista (any executable which came with vista) in XP? I get this error: "This program is not a valid Win32 application." Yes, you can run bcdedit and some others, but only a few, because they're native apps.

Does anyone know how to run interactive services? I have tried the Interactive Services Detection service and other stuff - won't work. I WANT SYSTEM PRIVILEDGES, NOT JUST ADMIN.