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Thanks to customers who can’t avoid spyware and trojans to save their lives, I’ve gotten pretty quick at backing up, reformatting, and finishing off Windows installs. I’ve got five core tools that I use to get the job done, and here they are.
Copy the USMT folder from the computer’s c:\windows\system32\ and save it to a USB drive. Alternatively, do what the wizard wants you do and create a wizard disk. Run the exe from there both before and after the reformat. It’s critical to use the exact same version of the executable to avoid problems.
The tutorial at the WPIW site is excellent, and will guide you through setting up your first Wizard.
What about you? What apps help you get from a crapped up install back to a nice, clean OS?
Posted by kglee | Filed under Software Fixes
winpass, choose vista folder, unlock account, clear password
winpass -u username
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Posted by kglee | Filed under Software Fixes
This is a real MOTHER! Yea! I finally got Vista to work, but needed a new motherboard for certain Vista enhancements to work fully.
Changing your own motherboard is fairly easy.
Posted by kglee | Filed under Software Fixes
While Windows Vista contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of Windows XP are no longer present or changed, resulting in the removal of certain functionality. The following is a list of features which were present in Windows XP but which have been removed in Windows Vista.
* 1 Windows Shell
* 2 Windows Explorer
* 3 User account rights and logon
* 4 Win32 console
* 5 Networking
* 6 Multimedia
* 7 File system, drivers and memory
* 8 Boot, shutdown, power management
* 9 Windows applications and features
* 10 Legacy applications and features
* 11 Graphics, DirectX and video
* 12 Installation and servicing
* 13 Other minor changes
* 14 See also
* 15 Notes and references
* 16 External links
Windows Shell
* Active Desktop functionality has been removed. As a result, animated GIF files can no longer be set as the desktop background. No other dynamic web content such as HTML or HTA files can run on the desktop, although Windows DreamScene (only released for the Windows Vista Ultimate) allows using videos as the background.
* The File Types tab has been removed from Folder Options. This feature was available from Windows 95 up to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The File Types tab allowed users to change the file associations for various types of files. It allowed configuring which application would open when a user clicked on a certain type of file, or allowed manually defining a new file extension, defining/editing custom secondary actions, showing extensions only for specific file types, or customizing the file icon. While there is a more simplified option to change the file associations, called Default Programs in the Windows Vista Control Panel, this option only allows users to change the default action that occurs when they double click a file. It does not allow users to choose which application would load if the user were to right click on a file and then choose a secondary option such as Edit. The Open With dialog box in Windows Vista also uses the corresponding Default Programs API which limits only one registered application to be set as the default program. [1] It is also not possible to navigate/jump to a particular extension using the alphanumeric keys on a keyboard; scrolling is required.
* The configuration tab to quickly associate with media file types has also been removed from Windows Media Player 11 options in Windows Vista.
* It is not possible to override AutoPlay by pressing the SHIFT key as was possible in previous versions, though it can still be disabled through Control Panel. [2]
* AutoPlay settings cannot be configured per-device; they are set globally. [3]
* It is not possible to list fonts by similarity based on PANOSE information or hide font variations such as Bold, Italic etc in the Fonts folder.
* Menus cannot be set to slide anymore using the user interface. Only the fade effect is available.
* The taskbar cannot be dragged to the bottom of the screen to hide it manually.
* Toolbars such as “Quick Launch” can no longer be “dragged off” the taskbar as floating minibars or docked to another edge of the screen, though physical folders can be dragged onto the desktop edge in a similar manner. The Language Bar is the only toolbar that can float on the desktop.
* Some functions [4] and name exports [5] have been removed from shell32.dll. [6] (more…)
Posted by kglee | Filed under Software Fixes
You order a beer but won’t actually get it until next year.
When you do get your beer, it will only be half-full. When you complain about this, you get charged extra.
You are promised that the next beer you get will not only be full, but will actually brew you more beer. This turns out to be false.
You still only get half a beer in a slightly different color of glass. You will probably need to learn how to drink all over again.
Your glass of beer will explode at random intervals. Far from being seen as a fault, this is described by the bar staff as an “undocumented feature.” You are assured that the next beer you receive will not explode. Of course, it will and it does.
You can talk only to people who are drinking the same beer as you.
You can order a different drink, but you will have to go to another bar.
You’ve heard that there is another beer called “Linux Real Lite”, which is tastier, comes in a nearly bottomless glass, and is free. But you can’t drink it because you’ll lose your job. Strangely, you’ll keep your job if you continuously get upset at MS-Bar.
You can become a MS-Beer expert by paying the bar lots of money and then taking a test in which you lie about how good the beer is while overlooking all its faults.
The bar releases Vista-Beer, but it is so big that it won’t fit on your table. You will have to buy a new table. The glass is still only half-full.
For some obscure reason, you keep drinking at MS-Bar.