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EasyBCD & TweakVI Team-up for the Win!

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The two coolest companies have a gift for everybody: NeoSmart Technologies & Totalidea Software, publishers of the two highly-popular Vista tweaking utilities EasyBCD and TweakVI respectively, are proud to announce the partnership of both our award-winning softwares! TweakVI and EasyBCD have come together to offer our users the very best and complete control over practically every aspect of your Vista. It’s your PC, you control it the way you want!

Together EasyBCD and TweakVI allow users to completely setup and customize their Vista setups, from the bootmenu to the startup screen to the shutdown window: Complete Control! If you haven’t had the chance to experience either, now is the time! Here’s what they do:

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EasyBCD 1.51 Released: Dual-Boot Vista and Anything!

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After two months of crazy bug-hunting and hundreds of rounds of scenario testing, EasyBCD 1.51 is finally out. If you’re in a really big hurry, go and get it – if not, read on. EasyBCD 1.51 is a very major change from 1.5.

As a matter of fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that it would completely ruin our release schedule, this release would have been dubbed EasyBCD 2.0. It’s that big.

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What makes EasyBCD 1.51 so special is the switch in purpose and technique. In the past, EasyBCD was only a bootloader modification tool that let end-users configure the Windows Vista bootloader, and EasyBCD 1.5 added support for “profiles” that could be used to boot into Linux, BSD, & OS X. Not only does EasyBCD 1.51 add support for several other operating systems, but also it goes a step further. A very big step further. Now, if there is anything that Vista’s BCD bootloader can’t boot into, EasyBCD 1.51 comes with its own additional bootloader that can boot into it. It’s called NeoGrub, and you’re going to love it.

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EasyBCD 1.5: Multi/Dual-Boot Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, & BSD!

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Important! Upgrade immediately and read the docs to make it work!!!

We’ve done it! NeoSmart Technologies has built a better mousetrap, and it’s a beauty. EasyBCD 1.5 is the first and only application to allow users of Microsoft’s new OS complete compatibility with any other OS they might be using! It doesn’t make a difference if it’s Mac OS X or Linux, BSD or Unix; EasyBCD 1.5 means you can boot into it! For too long have Vista’s beta testers been locked-in to Windows simply because nothing else can be easily booted into, but not anymore!

Windows Vista’s new bootmanager is a double-edged sword. It’s one of the most powerful booting scripts in existence, and a far cry from the very limiting boot.ini of legacy Windows operating systems. But at the same time, Microsoft shows its disregard for other simultaneously installed operating systems. It overwrites the MBR without a second thought, and doesn’t provide any means for users of alternate operating systems and boot managers to use their old system. That’s where EasyBCD 1.5 comes in!

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NeoSmart IRC

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NeoSmart Technologies now has an IRC channel on SlashNet…
Our address: irc://slashnet.org/NeoSmart

This will be our temporary address until we find or write a decent IRC script to run from our local servers, but until then, please join us!

We also have a new userbar for EasyBCD:
EasyBCD Addict

EasyBCD DLL & API

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As you all may know, NeoSmart Technologies’ Computer Guru was head of the VistaBootPRO project, and now with the rest of the NeoSmart team is working on the EasyBCD project – both (the first is now deprecated) to manage the Windows Vista bootloader.

In writing these programs at the NeoSmart Research & Development center we’ve found the WMI ill-fit for interfacing with the Windows Vista BCD Store for anything other than grabbing information. The WMI is mainly an interface for getting information and not originally made for writing to the sources, making it too difficult for most BCD-related uses. In developing EasyBCD, our team started off by creating a programmatic framework for BCD interface that plugs directly into bcdedit.exe and does all the work from there.

This is just a ‘feeler’ announcement, to find out if any of Windows Vista programmers or general software developers would be interested in such a DLL (written in fully managed .NET code) that would have functions to add, remove, delete, and modify various bootloader options (i.e. do most things the EasyBCD project focuses on)?

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Announcing EasyBCD

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VisualBCDFollowing our “decomissioning” of work on VistaBootPRO by a series of under-handed tactics by PROnetworks culminating in a Cease & Desist on even using VistaBootPRO, we contacted NeoSmart Technologies’ legal advisors and asked thim if it would be OK to continue work on VistaBootPRO under another name.

Their response was slightly disheartening, but after a day of non-stop work, EasyBCD 1.1 has been released – a visual bootloader modification utility written from scratch and without referring to or copying from the VistaBootPRO source code. Not only is EasyBCD under new management and officially free of legal misgivings, it has also taken bootloader modification to the next level, with a much nicer, cleaner, and easier-to-use GUI; tens of new features; and all the bugs ironed out.

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GoodBye PROnetworks

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NeoSmart Executive Announcement!

NeoSmart Technologies has reached a parting of ways with PROnetworks. Since the release of VistaBootPRO, PROnetworks has become increasing uncomfortable with its agreed-upon role in the publication of VistaBootPRO and the ratio of attention and recognition for VistaBootPRO at NeoSmart Technologies compared to that at PROnetworks; and it seems as a result they have served NeoSmart Technologies a Cease & Desist order.

When VistaBootPRO was first released, the agreement was that the Computer Guru (NeoSmart Technologies’ founder) would receive full and unrestricted credit/rights as VistaBootPRO’s original author, creator, and maintainer; whereas PROnetworks would retain the copyright and sole publication rights to VistaBootPRO. Unfortunately, since then PROnetworks has decided to renege on its former position, and have served us with a C&D order asking us to

..which withdraws any right by you to claim to be the publisher and author of this application and you must Desist from using VBP, or attempting to distribute VBP under the aforesaid name.

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VistaBootPRO: Friday, May 12th!

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VistaBootPRO is now deprecated. Use EasyBCD instead.

It’s official! VistaBootPRO is coming this Friday, May 12th; and you’d better get ready for it! Yes, VistaBootPRO is the name of the mystery app that many of you have been asking about; and no, I still can’t tell you what it does besides that (if you can’t guess…).

Both NeoSmart Technologies and PROnetworks are very happy to be able to bring you this release, and we’re all working really hard to make sure it’s a success. For now, here is a userbar with half a logo to whet your appetite until later. And I promise, if everything goes well, you’ll know more before Friday :D

Something Big Coming Your Way

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Download this application here!

I'm really happy to be able to tell you about something that's been it the works and under wraps for quite a while, because we feel you deserve to know in advance so you can get your computers ready! NeoSmart Technologies and PROnetworks have teamed together; and we're almost done designing and publishing a program that will literally change the face of Vista and how you look at it.

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