{"id":136,"date":"2013-08-21T03:23:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/kb\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2015-08-18T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:24:35","slug":"basics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/","title":{"rendered":"EasyBCD Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EasyBCD is a powerful bootloader-modification tool that has a wide-range of applications and usages. It can perform a variety of tasks ranging in complexity and application from the most basic to advanced and highly-customizable features.<\/p>\n<p>Please use EasyBCD with care, it&#8217;s a powerful tool that you can either make your life a lot easier or make it rather miserable by letting you shoot yourself in the foot.<\/p>\n<h3>EasyBCD Core Functionality<\/h3>\n<p>These cover the basic features baked into EasyBCD.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"page-list subpages-page-list \">\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-4730\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/viewing-entries\/\">Viewing Entries<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-4736\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/adding-entries\/\">Adding Entries<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-139\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/renaming-entries\/\">Renaming Entries<\/a><\/li>\n<li 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