List of Features Removed in Windows Vista - Boot, Shutdown, Power Management

Boot, Shutdown, Power Management

• The Low Battery Action cannot be set to run an external program any more.
• Detailed battery information such as battery name and manufacturer, Unique ID, chemistry is removed.
• There is no longer a built-in graphical user interface to configure boot options. The command-line tool, BCDEdit.exe has to be used.
• The Startup Hardware Profiles feature in System Properties has been removed.
• There is no progress bar indicating the hibernation status on Windows Vista. After users choose to hibernate, Windows Vista simply turns off the screen before saving the data to disk and turning off the computer. Also, when resuming, Windows Vista displays an indeterminate progress bar instead of the determinate progress bar used in previous versions of Windows.
• Although it is possible to customize the action Windows takes when the hardware Power button is pressed, it is no longer possible to set power options to ask the user every time what action to take upon pressing it. Therefore, selecting a different power action in each case is not possible.
• The Shutdown menu has been removed from Windows Task Manager.
• The Shutdown.exe command line tool no longer displays a real-time countdown timer when the system is set to a timed shutdown or restart.
• The shutdown command-line tool limits the delay option (-t) to 600 seconds (10 minutes).
• The uninterruptible power supply (UPS) service which monitors a UPS connected through a COM port is no longer available.