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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Vista Driver Scan

December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A “driver” does the “talking” between devices in, and connected to, your Windows XP computer. Many times they work fine….

With its own built-in driver database, Windows Vista can automatically recognize some types of hardware like U.S.B. flash drives. The system includes a Device Manager utility that lets you check, configure and change the way Windows deals with your devices.

Vendors are always improving their device drivers and making sure you have the latest one, for ALL your devices is time consuming. If you are technically savy you can use the device driver to manualy check each device driver is up to date.

…or you can manually check vendor webistes for available updates, but ths takes time and can be a very frustrating process. (With so many drivers installed on your system you cannot reasonably keep track of which drivers have been updated.)

The alternative is to use a piece of software to do ALL THE WORK for you!

Software like DriverScanner 2009 will:

# Keep your PCs drivers updated and your system fully functional…
# DriverScanner scans and backs up ALL your EXISTING drivers….
# Looks for recent updates, downloading and installing them all in a few simple clicks…

…Trouble Free driver maintenance!

Click here for free instant scan of your computer and see how many drivers you have that are out of date.

Perhaps it will be your: nvidia geforce card, wireless usb or network adapter ?

Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP

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