Ryan,
How do you run bcdedit with switches? I can execute bcdedit.exe with right click and run as administrator, and it just flashes. I can execute using shift ctl enter and it just flashes.
If I bring up a dos prompt from a 32 bit editor, I can go to c:\windows\system32\bcdedit.exe, but again just get a screen flash.
The only thing that seems to (partially) work is to use all programs>accessories>command prompt, and right click and run as administrator. This gives me a command prompt, but shows me that I am at my user level, however just typing "bcdedit" does execute something as if I were at c:\windows\system32\:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\xxxx>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
extendedinput Yes
default {current}
resumeobject {158181c0-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
customactions 0x1000085000001
0x5400000f
custom:5400000f {b61827e7-a53e-11e1-983c-e3ea458117bf}
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {b61827e7-a53e-11e1-983c-e3ea458117bf}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {158181c0-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
nx OptIn
C:\Users\xxxx>
If I say "path" then it gives me my path environment variable. But, no way to edit it. Quite frankly, I have forgotten EXACTLY what I did to initially edit the path, but it did happen.
May I quote my dear old dad here "gimmie my horse". What was wrong with the XP autoexec.bat as an editable file that had the drawback that you had to boot to get the changes to take effect?
Dave.
