EasyBCD is a program that will let you take control over your Windows bootloader. This application will allow you to have and use several operating systems in one PC. To be more accurate, you will be enabled to create multiple or dual boot profiles, and thus boot into Windows XP, Vista, 7, and even Linux and Mac OS X. Also using this program you will be able to create bootable USB devices, boot from those devices and ISO images, as well as from virtual hard disks and network paths.
The program is free and rather easy to use (not for the beginners, of course). It provides you with lots of adjustable options and useful utilities. For example, it will provide you with quick access to the command-line shell, system restore and control panels, also the program includes the iReboot utility that will let you boot into another OS quickly and easily.
The new 2.0.2 version fixes a bug with adding multiple WIM entries, and has an improved boot.ini partition detection. EasyBCD may be downloaded and installed on any OS, but it will start working only under Windows 7 or Vista.
v2.2.0.182 [Feb 9, 2012]
- EasyBCD Multi-Language Localization Support
- Windows 8 support
- Automatically create backup of BCD store the first time EasyBCD is run
- Add VHDX support to EasyBCD
- Volume licensing option for commercial edition
- EasyBCD doesn't detect any entries if EFI bootmgr is installed
- EasyBCD does not properly interpret pae=yes or pae=no
- EasyBCD hangs on Windows 8 w/ .NET 4
- Setting locale for VHD entry causes entry corruption
- Setting advanced settings for WinPE entry after creation corrupts entry
- Separate the update info URIs for the commercial and community editions
- EasyBCD picture in setup welcome screen
- Use new EasyBCD and NeoSmart Technologies logos.
- Date format in default EasyBCD backup filenames is YYYY-MM-DD regardless of locale for sort reasons
- Append (#) to default EasyBCD backup name if already exists
- Support High-Contrast Theme
- High DPI support w/ translation UI
- Faster enumeration of installed languages
- Commercial version support for auto-updating
- Support Gentoo Grub2
- Support Fedora 17, Gentoo, and ArchLinux GRUB2 changes
- EasyBCD can limit up to 99,999MiB of memory
