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Boot Manager: Which is my Vista?

Submitted by Phil_123 on November 18, 2008 to Annoyance

Previous versions of Windows not only put the product name but also their version (like "Home", "Professional", "Standard", "Datacenter", "Enterprise") and the target platform if it is not x86. (like "x64 Edition") into the text description. Why doesn't Vista do that?

Be descriptive with boot menu descriptions.

I noticed that if you screwed up something and repaired the Boot Manager with the Vista setup disc, the boot items are described as it should, with text for version and target platform. Why didn't Setup do it properly in the first place?

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Discussion (2 comments)

.Chris wrote on November 18, 2008, 11:10pm

I beieve you can edit this somehow under system preferences

Phil_123 wrote on November 19, 2008, 5:08am

Changed solution description.

eikonoklastes2 wrote on November 21, 2008, 9:08pm

You can edit this using bcdedit or EasyBCD, however it should not have to come to that. Having had to dual-boot Vista 32 and Vista 64, I can relate to the annoyance of this issue.

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