Setting GPLPV Driver Boot Parameters on 2008, Vista

You have to love that BCDEDIT program.  Boot.ini was just too damned simple for Microsoft to keep it around in 2008 and Vista.  Complexity is beauty, right?  Anyway, to deactivate the drivers at boot you now need to pull your teeth.  Start an Administrative Command Prompt and:

bcdedit /enum /v

It shows you something like this:

You'll notice in the picture above, I've already got NOGPLPV set.

Then:

bcdedit /set {a252fb6e-6643-11dd-a109-f7093d154f92} LOADOPTIONS "NOGPLPV"

If you want to make a new option instead of just modifying the default one, copy your boot loader by:

bcdedit /copy {a252fb6e-6643-11dd-a109-f7093d154f92} /d "My new boot description"

Oh, and you want to remove that loadoption you've set?  Nope, not unset, not delete but:

bcdedit /deletevalue LOADOPTIONS

You have to pay extra for programming that is that consistent.  Thanks MS!