What is "Vista Boot Manager" ???

Is a manager were you can do multi-boot,  say if you partition your drive.   1 has windows vista and the other is windows xp.  gives you the option of OS you what to boot in.

Edit the boot.ini file in the boot drive root directory. 

 

that is what you do in XP.

 

in VISTA you use bcdedit.exe,

 

 

bcdedit.exe /delete {id of boot entry to remove}

Try bcdedit.exe /? to read the help documentation as a previous poster suggested.

Vista has no boot.ini file. It may be created to support earlier versions in a dual boot system, but it does not affect booting in Vista. Editing this file then would be pointless. Boot.ini is not even created on systems with only Vista installed.

Sorry - should have realized that you had a dual boot system.

The easiest way to do this is:

 

Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced system settings>Advanced tab>Startup and Recovery section>Settings. Make sure that Vista is selected as the default operating system and the UNcheck the "time to display list of operating systems".

BRIAN3, Please post your results if you try Rebel9's instructions. I will be doing the same thing before long and it would help to know what works. That is the way I would have attempted to do it. Thanks!

hi there, i did what rebel9 told me, i still se the boot manager just for a sec before it boots into vista.

Hi BRIAN3, Thanks for the update. Sounds like there might be one more little step involved if you are getting a brief view but I don't know what it is.:smileysad: I will keep working on it and maybe someone will post here and give us the answer. I am currently dual-booting XP Pro and Vista Ultimate but I hope to eliminate the XP within a month or so. By then I may be more comfortable with Vista and get some sound problems out of the way. Thanks again for the information. 

Hi

Have you tryed this one, it will let you manage the Vista boot manager.

read it over it is a very good tool.

 

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

hey there, well i got rid of the vista boot manager, yay.  well i like vista and i got my soundmax to work on here.    But the thing is that i got a 2004 dell 8300 demison model, is doing ok working with vista, but the gameing isn't that well, because im running a old 128mb nvidia 5200 geforce.   I'm running windows vista home basic edition.  I'm just trying it out for a month, then switch back to xp. hopeing later this month i well get a dell vista computer.