Change boot options in Vista/Win 2008

I hope you all aware about boot.ini which helps to change the boot options in Windows 2000/Xp/2003 and so.. In windows vista and 2008 the boot option is changed with the new options and features. The file which allows you to change the boot option is BCDedit.exe. This Boot Configuration Data (BCD) is command line tool for managing boot options.

Its does the same job as bootcfg.exe on earlier version of windows, but additional it exposes a wider range of boot options. It also increased with more scripting support.
The BCDedit.exe included in the %WINDIR%\System32 with the Vista and later version of windows.
To view the boot options :

C:\Users\nilavan>bcdedit identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {current} displayorder {ntldr} {current} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 30 Windows Legacy OS Loader ———————— identifier {ntldr} device partition=C: path \ntldr description Earlier Version of Windows Windows Boot Loader ——————- identifier {current} device partition=D: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows Vista locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice partition=D: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {1ecfd635-a8ea-11db-bb9b-ddf07c6aaff1} nx OptIn

As per the above example, You can change the description 'Earlier Versio of Windows' to Windows XP Pro" by using the below command.

bcdedit /set {ntldr} description “Windows XP Pro”

Also you can change the default boot option by using the below command.

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} default “{ntldr}”

To get more details about the command's options to help you out,

bcdedit /help

Thats all about to change the boot options. Write me if you require any further information.