Tell me Glenn, are the patches that you put in your next workstation gold image named after the person who found the solution, or who found the problem lol?

Sadly, the teacher doesn't know whether there was a startup recovery because the teacher assistant put the laptop on in the morning. I know that teacher assistants usually deny all charges, therefore its no point bothering to ask!

Anyhows I will look at the bcedit issue and see what each setting actually sets. I agree with Arend that it doesn't make sense to ignore failures.