Thanks, Dirk

I was hoping for something with more substance.  This article seems more
like an op-ed piece provided by M$'s marketing department.

Example -- it says:

<quote>
When Windows Vista's initial loading sequence detects a startup failure, it
automatically fails over to the Startup Repair Tool.
...
For example, the Startup Repair Tool can automatically repair the following
problems:
Missing/corrupt/incompatible drivers
Missing/corrupt system files
Missing/corrupt boot configuration settings
Corrupt registry settings
Corrupt disk metadata (master boot record, partition table, or boot sector)
Problem update installation
</quote>

If it actually did this, then we wouldn't be seeing half the posts that we
actually see in microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup and
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general.

Does anyone have knowledge of cases where during startup, the startup repair
tool was automatically invoked, fixed something, and startup completed
successfully?  In which case how did you find out that a problem was found
and fixed?

Does anyone have an example of something that we can break on our test
system and which will be fixed by this automatic invocation of the startup
repair tool?  I'd like to see it in action.

-Paul Randall