Boot.ini

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Ben - 14 Dec 2007 12:28 GMT

The boot.ini file on a Windows XP computer sets booting options. If
you could change these without even Windows noticing, several thousand
users risk the change of having their computer settings changed. I
thought about this after a Java programming class but really have not
pursued the idea.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/bootini.mspx

The preceding is Microsoft's information about boot.ini options. I
really like th idea of the /year= option. Imagine booting a computer
that thought it was 2000.

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Andrew Thompson - 14 Dec 2007 13:41 GMT

> (snip sillyness)
> ..I thought about this after a Java programming class but
> really have not pursued the idea.

Continue to do that, won't you?

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Owen Jacobson - 14 Dec 2007 17:21 GMT

> The boot.ini file on a Windows XP computer sets booting options. If
> you could change these without even Windows noticing, several thousand
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> really like th idea of the /year= option. Imagine booting a computer
> that thought it was 2000.

If you can change boot.ini, your code is running with Administrator
privileges and you could cause trouble in much simpler ways.
Conversely, if your code is not running as an Administrator, then
boot.ini is as off-limits as any other system-critical resource.

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