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Comment by i336_

A cool way to fix this if Microsoft doesn't want to (although I can't see it being that hard) would be to make a small stub that simply kills the AVX flags then chainloads through to NTLDR.

It would probably be quite a simple project to work on, and a fun way to learn about bootloader-level software development. Chainloading NTLDR is well-understood (and will never change), and being booted by BOOTMGR is also fairly well understood too. If I was running Windows at the moment I'd be seriously considering playing with this myself.

parent i336_ 9 years ago

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