Power Boot is a boot utility that allows you to select which Operating System you want to boot from.

If you want to install more than one Operating System on your PC, you will want to install them in different partitions so that each Operating System runs in its native environment.

All you need then, is the ability to boot from the different partitions, Power Boot is more versatile and much less expensive than other popular programs.

If you use Partition-It or Partition Magic, Power Boot is an ideal and inexpensive companion. You can create multiple partitions with Partition-It or Partition Magic and then use Power Boot to boot from any one of the partitions.

If your company is using Partition Magic 3.0 and you don't want to pay an exhorbitant price for Boot Manager licences, Power Boot is an excellent alternative.

Power Boot Features include:

Unlike OS/2 Boot Manager, Power Boot does not occupy a primary partition entry and you can therefore use all four primary partitions in a hard disk for different operating systems.

OS/2 boot drive letter: you can choose which drive letter an OS/2 HPFS partition can be booted with.

Hide/unhide partitions on the fly as you boot up. There is no need to run another program in order to hide or unhide partitions.

One touch option to configure your system to update an operating system.

One touch option to configure your system to install an OEM version of an operating system e.g. Windows95 OSR2. Very often, these OEM versions will not install if they detect another operating system.

Power-Chain enabled. You can install more than one utility in the MBR of your hard drive.

Features new to Version 2.0 include:

File system independant: Power Boot still works when you decide to upgrade the file system (e.g. FAT16 to FAT32).

Simple to use: auto-detects partitions and no configuration is necessary to use it.

Password: to prevent someone else from changing the boot defaults or to boot from another partition. Or, as one user put it, to prevent kids from booting other more 'sensitive' operating systems.

Save last boot: if you boot from an extended partition or from a partition on a hard drive other than the first one, this partition will become the default partition. Power Boot will always boot this partition without any user intervention.

Save option settings: all options you set during a boot session with Power Boot will be saved so that the next time Power Boot starts up, it will use the same options.

Variable timeout: the timeout delay is can now be between 4 to 32 seconds.

Quiet mode: Power Boot can now start up with just a simple copyright message.

Drive swap: if you choose to boot from a partition that is not on the first hard drive, you can select a mode whereby this hard drive will be logically swapped with the first one.