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Hello everyone, my name is Sean Walker, and I am on the Platforms OEM team in Washington.   This article is for those people who have had a hard time switching from the old boot.ini configuration to the new BCD store (myself included). Doing the simple tasks such as enabling kernel debugging over...

UPDATE: This is why we *LOVE* our readers! After posting a 32-bit disassembly of 16-bit MBR code, I was gently informed of my misstep by three sharp-eyed readers. I’ve corrected the original post below. Thanks go out to Ramon Sola, Jeroen Frijters and 'pedantic gnome' for keeping us honest. Thanks guys...

Hi folks, my name is David and I’m an Escalation Engineer for Microsoft. Since Bryan wrote about How Windows Shuts Down , I thought it would be a good idea to cover How Windows Starts Up. This information applies specifically to Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. I will blog separately...