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Installing the Upgrade on a Blank Hard Drive

Few days back, I bought Windows Vista Business Upgrade the other day so I could start playing with it. Since I did not want to mess up the configuration of my current computer, I thought I would install Vista on a blank hard drive.

Sounds easy enough, after all the previous versions of Windows required you to have a legitimate copy of an older Windows operating system and simply asked for that copy during the install so they could verify upgrade compliance.

Before installing Windows Vista, I ran the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor on my current system. As I suspected, my video card was not up to Vista standards and the 512MB of RAM was on the low end of what Vista wanted. (more…)

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Written by Jason on November 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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What to do to avoid landing your Microsoft Windows Vista or XP in Emergency

Emergency Boot Discs are something everyone should take seriously.

  • How do I prepare an emergency boot disc so I’m ready in case Windows becomes unbootable?

Alas, the days when Windows came with a program for creating a useful emergency boot floppy are long gone. And those old boot floppies wouldn’t help with XP or Vista–even if you PC had a floppy drive.

Boot from one of the discs that came with your PC, and examine the menus (don’t select anything that might wipe your drive). You’re looking for emergency utilities. You’re in real luck if you have a full Windows XP CD or Vista DVD. These come with great tools for diagnosing and repairing an unbootable PC. In fact, if you don’t have a real Windows disc, find one you can borrow in an emergency. Don’t install Windows from a borrowed disc, but if it has the same version of Windows as your PC, use its repair tools.

Boot from an XP CD, and press R at the ‘Welcome to Setup’ screen to see the Recovery Console, a DOS-like command-line environment with a number of useful utilities. Consult “What to Do When XP or 2000 Won’t Boot” for additional details. If you boot

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Written by microsofthelp on November 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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Vista Don’t Mix and Generate Errors

Microsoft has set up a comprehensive infrastructure for the delivery and deployment of updates targeting its Windows operating system. Although the company is not yet ready to abandon the practice of issuing service packs for its platforms, it has indicated that large refreshes are becoming less relevant, and on their way to be declared obsolete due to Windows Update. But at the same time, Windows Update is by no means a foolproof system. In fact, Microsoft indicated that under some circumstances, updates delivered via the service and Windows Vista will not mix, and generate a variety of issues.

This is why the Redmond company is offering two updates, addressing both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Vista. The BITS Repair Tool for Windows Vista is designed to resolve corruptions of the BITS state files. “After you download updates from Windows Updates on a Windows Vista-based computer, you may experience the following symptoms: (more…)

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Written by Jason on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC

A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot. Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.

The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart. (more…)

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Written by Jason on August 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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