Useful things MS hides...
- From: sparkinark <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:32:52 -0600
Quickly:
Why are there so many commands that are completely undocumented but
extremely useful (and not in a gui at all) like sfc, bootrec, etc.? And
for the MBR, why are there 10's of freeware programs that make a
multi-OS/multi-boot easy to put in the mbr and os selector, but MS
doesn't give us diddly? Instead we get Flip-3d, which I had to look up
online to even find out how to use.
Can anyone read the sfc CBS.log file, in all of it's 10MB glory?
Why are people making cash writing little programs that let you change
just about every aspect of Vista (except nice things like making a
shadow-volume span, or putting it on a different disk/partition) and MS
can't write a simple GUI for these for us?
Why can't Vista's own "Ultimate" version do a backup that contains the
mbr, os selector, MFT's, offsets, etc? In fact, no one does this,
although all you would have to do is find abs sec 63 and copy some hex.
Why does acronis let you resize the partitions anyway you want, but
Vista won't? Where is the new fdisk replacement? Why does Vista say
it's doing a format when Acronis can recover the entire "formatted" disk
in about a second?
Moving backgrounds are nice, but where is the functionality and, even
more, why do I have to download bcdedit -- this is someone MS should do.
Finally, don't use your install disk too much because although it has
about $10 worth of holographics on it, it scratches if you look at it
hard enough and a replacement is $35 (though you can make your own if
you know how for about $0.10 a DVD).
Oh, and thanks for putting the migration wizard in a sub/sub/sub folder
on the DVD and not on the title page when I instal Vista in the first
place.
These are such small things. Why won't they fix them?
And someone please tell me how to do a cmd-line move of the mbr. I
don't want to go through ten reboots -- it's just a few 100 bytes of hex
at abs sector 63. Is it really that hard to copy?
sparkinark
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