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Windows Vista is the first Windows operating system to include fully integrated support for speech recognition. Under Windows 2000 and XP, Speech Recognition was installed with Office 2003, or was included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. A brief speech-driven tutorial is included to help familiarize a user with speech recognition commands.
Once launched the Windows Boot Manager reads the Boot Configuration Data to determine what operating systems are present and if it should present the user with a menu allowing them to select which operating system to boot. Before Windows Vista, this data was contained in boot.ini. These menu entries can include:
From Windows Vista, the AutoPlay system is integrated into every aspect of media handling and there is no automatic execution of the AutoRun task. The default Registry settings add Removable drives to those that initiated AutoRun. In Windows XP and higher, except Windows Server 2003, only the Unknown and Remote drive types are not active for ...
In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been ...
In Windows XP and Windows Vista, it can hide all operating system services for troubleshooting. In Windows Vista and later, the tool allows configuring various switches for Windows Boot Manager and Boot Configuration Data. It also gained additional support for launching a variety of tools, such as system information, other configuration areas ...
The setup process for Windows Vista has been completely rewritten and is now image-based instead of being sector-based as previous versions of Windows were. The Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) has been updated to host the entire setup process in a graphical environment (as opposed to text-based environments of previous versions of Windows), which allows the use of input devices ...
Though NTLDR and boot.ini are no longer used to boot Windows Vista and later versions of Windows NT, they ship with the bootcfg utility regardless. This is to handle boot.ini in the case that a multi-boot configuration with previous versions of Windows exists and needs troubleshooting from within the later operating system.
In the case of the latter, however, the computer will not be able to boot, even into safe mode. [2] [3] Booting from another device and uncompressing the files will usually solve this problem. In late 2009, several new reports of the black screen in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 emerged. At first, several claims pointed at Windows ...