Extend the recovery console

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Use WindowsXP recovery console as a mini-operating system that is used to troubleshoot or "recover" a Windows installation. It can be even more useful and easier to use with the following tweeks.

  • enable the SET command
    • Navigate the registry
      1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
      2. Software
      3. Microsoft
      4. Windows NT
      5. CurrentVersion
      6. Setup
      7. Recovery Console
    • change the following setting
      • setting = "SetCommand"
      • value = 1

  • allow access to all folders
    SET AllowAllPaths = TRUE

  • allow access to all removable media
    AllowRemovableMedia = TRUE

  • enable the use of Wildcards (* or ?)
    AllowWildCards = TRUE

  • copy without constant prompting

    • NoCopyPrompt = TRUE

base on: "The OS Inside The OS" by Fred Langa
InformationWeek, May 1, 2006

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=187000225

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