Remove Vista boot loader

In XP, put in the Vista DVD. on the DVD in the \boot folder, run "bootsect \n52 x:" where x is the drive you want.

IE for drive c:, usually the drive you want, it would be "bootsect \n52 c:"

slmgr -rearm ... expired!

If you forget to do slmgr -rearm, or don't have a task scheduled... what do you do when it expires? It won't let you do anything but register or run IE.

Just have IE run what you need so you can do the rearm.

address: file:///c:/

then right click c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe and run as admin. slmgr -rearm as normal.

Vista w/ Powertoys Power Calculator (PowerCalc)

Move to Vista, and now you miss your Power Calculator Powertoy?

Downloading & installing is problematic. The exe installer just extracts an .msi so you can't use xp compatibility on it. I couldn't find any way to trick msiexec.exe to install the .msi either.


But, if you have a copy of XP installed somewhere... you are in luck! Just copy PowerCalc.exe from \windows\system32 to vista somewhere, then create a shortcut and modify to run in xp compatibility mode.

Ahhhhh