Boot Configuration Data in Windows Vista
Updated: February 4, 2008
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Microsoft has completely reengineered the boot environment for Microsoft Windows Vista to address the increasing complexity and diversity of modern hardware and firmware. One aspect of this reengineering is a new firmware-independent data store that contains configuration data that influences the boot process. This paper provides an overview of this configuration data - called boot configuration data (BCD) - and describes how to use the related tools to manage boot options.
The information in this paper applies for Microsoft Windows Vista.
What's New:
| • | References to Longhorn removed |
Included in this paper:
| • | BCD Architecture |
| • | Tools for Managing BCD |
| • | How to Manage BCD Programmatically with WMI |
| • | BCD Cookbook |
