Archive for the 'How to's' Category
How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) — the step-by-step guide
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007Scenario: You want to install Vista on your PC alongside your XP installation, on the same drive. You have installed Vista already. (If you have XP installed first, check out our earlier tutorial on how to dual boot Vista and XP with XP installed first.) Tutorial Summary: We’re going to use Windows Vista to shrink [...]
How To Dual Boot XP And Vista, Step-by-Step
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007Upon launching Windows Vista Microsoft has, as Microsoft is wont to be doing, discovered a whole new set of headaches and problems for the average techie to overcome. One of these new problems is the sibling rivalry which can exist between Windows XP and Windows Vista, as a lot of people who have tried to [...]
HOW TO: Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007I’ve been thinking about writing a post about "How to install Windows Vista from a USB Flash Drive" for a while but just never got around to doing it. What got me thinking about it was a post on Josh’s board (windowsconnected.com) about running WinPE from a bootable USB Flash drive and it seems [...]
How to Create and use System Restore in Windows Vista
Sunday, February 18th, 2007No matter how careful you are, when it comes to installing drivers and applications in Windows Vista there are just going to be times when you need to perform a system restore. This brief step-by-step tutorial shows you how to create a restore point and then use it to return a working Vista configuration. [...]
How to make yourself a real administrator in Vista
Friday, February 16th, 2007One of the new things which were introduced by Windows Vista is brand new user accounts management, which allows system administrators to create various user accounts with strictly limited permissions. This may be handy for someone in net cafe or parents who want to protect the computer from their children, but it may cause also [...]
How to Install Windows Games in Windows Vista
Sunday, February 4th, 2007If you like to play the little games that Microsoft includes in Windows Vista like Chess, Hearts and more but you just can’t seem to find the games it could be that they didn’t install when you moved to Vista. When I installed Vista Business on my computer the games did not install. To check [...]
How to Enable Windows Vista Aero After Clean Vista Install
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Those of you out there who bought a copy of Windows Vista that offers the Aero interface last night or today will want to watch for something if you plan on doing a clean install (which you should). I was doing a clean install of Vista Business last night and noticed that Vista assumes your [...]
Help File: How to transfer files to Windows Vista
Thursday, January 25th, 2007When the time comes, how can I move all of my bookmarks, music and other files from my old computer to a new Windows Vista PC? Windows Vista, scheduled for sale to the general public next week, includes a free tool called Windows Easy Transfer. Like the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard that came with [...]
Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007…it’s likely that Vista will be the prevalent operating system in a couple years, just as Windows XP managed to push out Windows 98 and ME within a year or two after its release. New PCs will come with Vista installed, and most users who purchased a new computer in the past few months are [...]
A best practice guide on how to configure BitLocker (Part 1)
Monday, January 8th, 2007Windows Vista is here, and with Vista we get a lot of new exciting security features. One of the most exciting security features in Vista is Windows BitLocker drive encryption. BitLocker is a full-volume encryption tool that supports custom protection and authentication methods. However the user and support experience can be a mixed blessing, depending [...]
