I've been playing with the new Window Vista February CTP for a while, and it's so awesome stable and sleek that I decided to install it on my home's desktop machine. While in the playground, Vista was installed in Dell Inspiron 8600 using an external USB 2.0 disk drive, and it worked really fine keeping Windows XP on my primary partition and creating a lovely dual-boot menu to choose between Vista and XP, or my Legacy Pre-Longhorn Operating System as they called it.

So with my decision I wanted to removed all Vista stuff and menus from my laptop. It was hard to work it out, but here is what you have to do:

• To remove the Boot Manager loader from your primary partition, use the BootSect.exe utility found in the Boot folder of the Vista DVD
• Use option /nt52 to restore the ntldr loader
• Use option /nt60 to restore the BootManager loader
• Editing the menu options in the Boot Manager when starting your computer is no longer available through the file boot.ini
• You have to use the BcdEdit.exe tool to acomplish this task

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