Vista System Recovery Options

November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Windows Vista has built in tools to help repair and recover the operating system.

If you have a copy of the retail DVD for Windows Vista pop it in the DVD drive and restart the PC.

You should then get a command prompt saying Boot from DVD – hit enter on the keyboard.

At the next screen fill in the language and location options and click Next button.

At the next screen select the Repair Your Computer option in the bottom left corner.

On the next screen select the partition Vista is on.

You will then get the following System Recovery Options menu.

Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP

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Disable the Vista UAC

November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating system. It aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase. In this way, only applications trusted by the user may receive administrative privileges, and malware should be kept from compromising the operating system.

However, you can also disable this feature if you desire… (though I personally suggest you don’t.)

Watch this video for more information:

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Kind Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP

 

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