The Specialize configuration phase of Windows Setup typically occurs when the system is first started by the customer immediately before the out-of-box experience (OOBE). Therefore, any manufacturer-specific or corporation-specific modifications to power policy that are made before Sysprep has been started or during Audit mode might be overwritten by the automatic customization of power setting defaults for mobile PCs.

Network bindings are incorrect after you change a network adapter’s configuration. For example, this can occur after you enable or disable a network adapter, or after you install or remove the driver for a network adapter. In some cases, all transports and filters are bound to each available miniport at the same time.

Consider the following scenario. You have set up a Favorite Target connection to an iSCSI Target using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. You make a network configuration change on the initiator system, and restart the system. Once the system has started, you may notice that the LUNs presented by the iSCSI Target are inaccessible. Also, under the Targets tab in the iSCSI Initiator User Interface, you may notice that the Favorite Target is stuck in a “Reconnecting…” state.

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This article describes how to use the System Configuration utility (Msconfig.exe) to troubleshoot configuration errors that might prevent Windows Vista from starting correctly. Keep reading →

You have a computer on which Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) is installed on the main partition. On this computer, you install Windows Vista on a different partition. Then, you try to use the System Configuration Utility (Msconfig.exe) in Windows Vista to remove or change the Windows XP startup option. However, the option is unavailable. You expect the option to be available on the Boot tab of the utility.

This problem does not occur if you install Windows Vista on both partitions.

When you start Windows Vista, you receive the following error message:

File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information

When you try to upgrade an earlier version of a Microsoft Windows operating system to Windows Vista, you receive the following error message:

Windows could not update the computer’s boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed.

If you examine the contents of the drive:$WINDOWS.~BTSourcesPanthersetupact.log file that Windows Vista creates, you notice the following information:

<date> <time>, Info       [0x060216] IBS    CallBack_MungeBootIni:Failed to modify boot entries GLE = 50

In this log entry, GLE error code 50 corresponds to the following error message:

ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED

Note: Generally, drive is drive C on the computer. However, Windows Vista creates the temporary installation folder depending on many factors. Therefore, this drive may be any supported drive that Windows Vista detects.

The typical non-technical computer user doesn’t want to see extra information about what the computer is doing as it will probably just confuse them. That’s why modern OS’s hide most of what’s going on underneath and just show pretty pictures and allow users to point and click on things. The more technical users, often called Geeks (I put myself in this category) like to type in commands, and see what is going on behind the scene. What better way to display your Geekness, and impress your friends with your technical prowess than to have your computers boot screen scrolling all kinds of technical information? Keep reading →