system restore vista - How To Use System Restore to Undo System Changes in Windows Vista

system restore vista - How To Use System Restore to Undo System Changes in Windows Vista
Windows 7 and Vista has a feature called System Restore that automatically backs up registry and system files whenever you install new software or drivers. This feature is useful when you install evil software that makes your computer run really slow. But don’t worry, System Restore won’t remove Windows Vista.
Using System Restore in Windows
There are two places that you can use the system restore feature from. From within Windows, you can just type restore into the Start menu search box, and you’ll immediately see System Restore at the top of the start menu:

system restore vista

Or you can type rstrui into the search box and hit enter. Your choice.
You will immediate see a screen where you can choose to roll back the system to the last restore point. You can select “Recommended restore”, and just click next, or you can choose a different restore point.

If you do choose a different restore point, you will see a list of restore points that you can choose from. How many times have I typed the word choose at this point?
You’ll notice in the screenshot below that the last thing I did was install Virtual CloneDrive to mount ISO images, but right before that I installed the NVIDIA drivers.

 Click one of them, and you will have to confirm and then restart your computer to roll the system back. 

Note: For best results, you should run System Restore from safe mode.
If you receive an error while restoring, then use it from safe mode and it should work fine. To get into Safe mode, you can reboot and use the F8 key right before Windows starts up.
If the F8 key doesn’t work for you, you can force the system to go into safe mode by following instructions from Larry in the comments.
If Your System Won’t Boot
If you can’t even get into windows, you can boot off the installation dvd, and choose the “Repair your computer” option on the lower left hand side. If you don’t have an installation/repair disc, you can make one with these instructions.
Click next on the next screen, and then choose System Restore from the System Recovery dialog. It will take a few seconds to come up, and you will see the same screen that you would see in Windows:

Click next, and on the next screen select the drive that your copy of Windows 7 or Vista is installed on.
Click Finish, and Windows will roll back to the previous restore point. Really pretty simple stuff.
Conclusion
I’d absolutely recommend keeping the system restore feature on in Windows 7 or Vista.

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Get Windows 8 Metro style UI in Windows 7 using Mosaic

We have earlier posted that you can get Windows 8 metro UI in windows 7 using Omnimo 4 , recently another utility has been released on net named Mosaic which allows you to get Windows 8 style tiles on Windows 7 desktop.

Mosaic (previously known as Metro Home 2) is an application that brings Metro UI to your desktop. It is a set of live widgets that shows some content from the web or from your PC.Mosaic supports WPF and HTML widgets. Currently HTML widgets has some restrictions: they are visible only in fullscreen mode, there are some problems with input.Currently some widgets are just link to something (e.g. video or desktop or control panel) but in future they could get more functions.

Currently Mosaic is in alpha stages and is very unstable, here are the some tips for using it-

• To open Mosaic menu move mouse cursor to the right border of screen and click. This could not work if your taskbar placed on the right or left or you have more than one monitor.
• To add widgets open Mosaic menu click on the Widgets… icon and choose widget
• To remove widget click on widget icon in Widgets menu again
• By default widgets are shown over your windows and can be covered by them. There is fullscreen mode in the Mosaic options which makes Mosaic to cover whole screen
• If your widgets covered by windows just click on the right border of screen and they will quickly bring to front
• Some widgets has options which can be accessed through context menu
• If widgets animation annoys you, you can disable it in Mosaic options
• "Me" widget shows your avatar from Windows. You can change it by dr

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How to install Windows 8 on VMware virtual machine

How to install Windows 8 on VMware virtual machine
We have seen couple of Windows 8 leaks by now and most of you may like to test it.Installing and reinstalling may be a tedious task so today we would like to write a tutorial as how to install Windows 8 on VMware virtual machine which would ease your work.
First of all the minimum system configuration of Windows 8 is similar to Windows 7 so you should atleast have the following configurations-

• 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Here are the steps to install Windows 8 on VMWare Virtual machine-

• First of all you need to have Windows 8 build which you have to install on virtual machine.
• Download VMware player from here or from here. After downloading VMWare player just install it.VMWare can be installed on Windows XP,Windows Vista or Windows 7.
• Select Create a New Virtual Machine option from the list

Create a New Virtual Machine

• Now choose Installer disk image file (iso) and browse for the Windows 8 image file

Installer disk image

• In the next menu select Microsoft Windows as operating system and Windows 7 x64 if you are installing Windows 8 x64 or select Windows 7 if installing 32 bit version.

installing Windows 8 x64

• In the next menu leave the Windows Product key empty and just enter the name and password (optional).

Windows Product key

• Set the name of the Virtual machine and browse the location where you want to install it ( select where you have average 40 GB free when installing Windows 8 x64)

Virtual machine

• In the next menu enter the maximum disk-size, prefer to keep it minimum as 40 GB

maximum disk-size

• In the next menu click on Customize Hardware and modify the memory if installing Windows 8 x64. Keep the memory minimum as 2 GB. You could also change the number of cores depending on your processor.

• Finally click on Finish button and your Windows 8 installation on Virtual machine would start

 

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Get Windows 8 Tablet UI in Windows 7 using "Omnimo 4"

Get Windows 8 Tablet UI in Windows 7 using "Omnimo 4"
We have seen Microsoft previewing the new Windows 8 UI in D9 and Computex 2011. Today the Deviantart user fediaFedia has released Omnimo 4 for Rainmeter which allows you to transform Windows Vista/Windows 7 to the newly unveiled Windows 8 Tablet UI.

Omnimo is a multifunctional interactive desktop information center based on rainmeter. This suite will turn your desktop into a productive and attractive workarea , delivering only the information you need. Every interactive tile gives you information at a glance, and can be easily customized to your needs.

Here are the steps to install Omnimo 4 on Windows Vista/Windows 7-

1. In order to use Omnimo, you need to have Rainmeter 2.0 or higher installed. Some features like Aero Glass, NowPlaying and Twitter functionality require Rainmeter 2.1 BETA. You can get them here
2. After installing Rainmeter download Omnimo 4 from here
3. Double click on the Setup.rmskin file, it should install everything automatically and you will be greeted by the Intro.

After installation, select your settings and then the theme+resolution to apply the optimum layout. Don’t worry if your desktop resolution is not included, you can move things around to your liking anyway.
 

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Unlock Windows 8 build 7955 features using RedPill tool

Unlock Windows 8 build 7955 features using RedPill tool
Windows 8 build 7955 has been leaked and folks at MDL forums are unlocking the new features in this build. A MDL forum user has posted a new hack which allows you to unlock couple of features in Build 7955 which includes the pattern login and the Metro UI.
Here are the complete set of features which can be unlocked using RedPill Tool

• Metro Login
• New Task Manager
• Immersive Browser
• Pattern Login

To unlock the features, the following steps has to be followed-

1. Run the InstallTakeOwnership registry file. It would add Take Ownership button on the right click.
2. Take Ownership of system32\slc.dll and system32\systemcpl.dll and rename them to something else
3. Now simply copy the three dll files from the zip file to system32 folder.

You can download the file from here



Note: Modifying System files is a risky task and should only be performed on test machine. We don’t take any responsibility for the subsequences.
 

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How to Install Windows 8 from USB flash drive

How to Install Windows 8 from USB flash drive

Windows 8 build 7850 has recently been leaked and most of you would like to install it. You can install it by writing the image file to a DVD but here we are going to explain how to install Windows 8 from a USB Flash Drive. We have tested 2 methods and both of them work fine.
First the System Requirements

• 4GB removable USB flash drive
• A Windows 8 ISO file
• Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Method 1
In this method we would be using the command prompt method to make a bootable USB Flash Drive.
Step 1: Run the DiskPart utility by typing diskpart at the Start menu search box.

Step 2: Run the list disk command to check the status of your drive.

Step 3: Run select disk 1 where the "1" is actually the corresponding number of your USB drive.

Step 4: Run clean.

Step 5: Once the thumb drive is clean,run create partition primary.

Step 6: Make the partition active by entering active

Step 7: Run the command format fs=NTFS quick to format the USB Flash Drive

Step 8: Run the assign command which gives the USB drive a drive letter

Step 9: Extract the Windows 8 ISO file using the WinRAR utility

Step 10: Now copy the contents of the file from extracted ISO file to USB flash drive 
Method 2
This is the simpler method and we would be using Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool to install Windows 8.
Step 1: Download Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool from here and install it.
Step 2: Run the tool and in the SOURCE FILE box, type the name and path of your Windows 8 ISO file, or click BROWSE and select the file from the OPEN dialog box. Click NEXT.

Step 3: Select USB DEVICE to create a copy on a USB flash drive.

Step 4: If you are copying the file to a USB flash drive, select your USB device in the drop-down list and click BEGIN COPYING.

Only 4 steps were required and your bootable USB flash drive would be ready.


Once completed you would see the USB Flash drive with the icon as shown in the image below.

After you have created a Bootable USB flash drive change the BOOT order in BIOS to boot from your USB drive first

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Download Windows 8 based theme for Windows 7

As more information about Windows 8 is being leaked, guys have started creating concept wallpapers, themes for the next version of Windows. Even our friends at Windows Valley have created a wonderful Windows 8 based theme for Windows 7. The theme has 4 wallpapers displaying the leaked Windows logo with Microsoft tag line “Be what’s next.”

You can download the theme from here

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What is a Windows 8 PC?

Though the iPad got the ball rolling, Windows 8 may be the catalyst that finally brings about the "post-PC" era, as Apple likes to call it (and others prefer not to).
While many digirati were attending a conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., I was further down the coast in San Diego attending a less glamorous but hardly less important Qualcomm conference. Qualcomm is, after all, the enormously profitable company (with a market cap just shy of $100 billion, rivaling Intel, which is at about $115 billion) that supplies the guts of many of the world's feature phones, smartphones, and, increasingly, tablets.
Chips it designs essentially define the hardware and performance of the phones many people use. Qualcomm's role in the phone industry is analogous to Intel's in the PC industry. (Qualcomm said at the conference that 250 future devices are being designed around its "Snapdragon" processor.)
Which brings us to the future Windows 8 PC. Qualcomm chimed in this week, saying it will build quad-core Snapdragon processors for Windows 8 devices, in addition to the dual-core chips it is beginning to supply now for tablets like HP's upcoming TouchPad.
"This will require high-performing, low-power processors...with features like 3G and 4G wireless wide area network (WWAN) connectivity," Qualcomm said in its Windows 8 statement Wednesday.
When Qualcomm speaks about Windows, people should listen. As Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs is always quick to point out, Qualcomm is the exclusive supplier of processor silicon for all Windows Phone 7 devices.
So, with Qualcomm and others set to supply high-performance ARM processors for Windows 8, what will these Qualcomm-powered Windows 8 devices be exactly? Jacobs gave us a hint this week. "You will see some clamshell looking devices. Some of them will be convertible. Some of them will be just tablets. We're going to see a wide range of stuff going on," he said at press conference on Wednesday.
Though Jacobs was referring to products coming out later this year and early next year, similar design themes will apply to Windows 8 devices.
What will a Windows 8 PC be? A few rough ideas:

• A 2.5GHz quad-core ARM chip-based Windows 8 tablet?
  
• Newfangled Windows 8 tablet-centric hybrid with slider keyboard?
  
• Motorola Atrix smartphone-with-laptop-dock kind of device?
  
• Tried-and-true clamshell laptop sporting a high-performance ARM chip?

I say all of the above will be a PC, if that's the primary device you do most of your personal computing on, including lots of business productivity apps like Microsoft's Office suite. Along these lines, a comment at one of the technical sessions at the Qualcomm conference stuck with me: many young people in the future may skip the traditional PC all together. They may grow up using a device that bears little resemblance to today's laptop.

For more on Windows 8's interface, see the Microsoft video, Building Windows 8.

(Credit: Micorosft)

Intel will contribute to this, too. Intel's next-generation Haswell chip design--due roughly in the same time frame that Windows 8 appears--will be the company's first system-on-a-chip, or SoC, for mainstream laptops. An SoC is the same kind of all-in-one chip design Qualcomm uses today for feature phones, smartphones, and tablets. And, by the way, it's what Apple uses in its iPhone and iPad.
That means Intel also subscribes to a very different kind of future PC design. And with Qualcomm, Microsoft, Google, and others like Nvidia behind this, Post-PC or not, the PC will look very different for a lot of people.

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Question: What is Windows 8?

Question: What is Windows 8?

Microsoft expects to come out with the next version of Windows in 2012.  Rumors are that it will be called Windows 8, although Microsoft says it has not been named yet, that it is just the next Windows.  However Steve Ballmer, the head of Microsoft called it Windows 8 in a speech in Japan recently.

   Microsoft says it will be a friendlier version of windows and use more natural language ways of doing work on it.  They expect to integrate more abilities to let you speak to it and work with it in a more natural way.

   The are expected to put these features in Bing (their search engine that has grown tremendously in the last year or two and is starting to challenge Google) and also integrate the abilities of Bing more in Windows. 

   Many of these big items are what we also see Google doing with their search engine and their browser Chrome and expected in the Chrome operating system  which some expect to challenge windows but will be a operating system that works in the cloud (on the Internet) and is not installed on your computer.  

   Google has had Google Apps out for several years which work on the cloud also, you do not install them, you use them thru your Internet connection.  Likewise Microsoft is moving a version of Office to the cloud to compete and it is call Office 365 and is available in beta.  My experience using it is that it has a low learning curve if you already know Office and that it will offer most items people use.

   The trend is toward storing and running everything on the cloud which means that programs and your data is not stored on your computer but somewhere out there on the Internet.  The two major limitations I see is that if everything is on the cloud and your Internet connection fails you cannot do anything and that if the place with your applications and data has a failure the same problem and second is that  if that location loses their equipment for what ever reason you are dependent on them having done backups and being able to recover quickly.  However the cloud concept is growing.  My online classes are taught using software in Indiana and San Jose California and to a degree I am dependent on both keeping the data back upped and secure although I do backup and download my Angel data regularly, but Cisco does not have that option for  me.

   We are moving thru another shift in computing as the cloud grows in use and toward more natural language devices.  Another exciting time to see what man can do in developing machines.

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Are you looking for Windows 8 training?

 Are you looking for Windows 8 training?

Currently, a ultimate chronicle of Microsoft Windows handling complement is Windows 7. Some people had worry regulating this chronicle when it was primary introduced. There were a couple of reasons for such a problem.
One of them is a miss of correct training. The stream version, Windows 7 does have most assistance functions for a ultimate user. Microsoft additionally set up assorted online tutorials as well as videos to assistance users. Nevertheless, most users still face a little problems due to a a little of encryptions, that were used in a handling system.
Windows 8 is approaching to be strictly launched during a center of 2012. Nevertheless, beta contrast will be carried out during a center as well as finish of subsequent year. Right now, there is no central Windows 8 training yet as set up by Microsoft Corporation. The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer is approaching to give a little discernment in to this destiny chronicle of handling complement subsequent month in 2011.
The primary or formulation theatre of Windows 8 beta contrast is approaching to be expelled somewhere during a center of subsequent year. If we check out a worldwide web then, we might come opposite most materials for Windows 8 training online. The growth phase, that focuses especially upon corrections as well as adjustments, is approaching to be expelled to a open during a finish of subsequent year. It is most appropriate to try your palm during both a stages.
You can be rebuilt to a little border when it comes to regulating a tangible chronicle of Windows 8. This chronicle additionally incorporates Internet Explorer 9 as well as Windows Live Wave 5 in to a handling system. Both Internet Explorer 9 as well as Windows Live Wave 5 have been not upon a marketplace yet. They would be expelled together with Windows 8.
By guidance in allege as most we can, we would not have most worry when a time comes to download as well as operate all these versions. Another great good of Windows 8 training is feedback. After regulating any of a online videos as well as tutorials for training purposes, we can give a little profitable feedback to Microsoft. During a growth stage, feedback would be critical to Microsoft for adjusting any flaws or failures.
In short, there have been a couple of benefits of Windows 8 training online for mechanism users. You can have great operate of tutorials, videos as well as alternative materials to give profitable feedback to Microsoft for mending Windows 8 prior to a estimated central launch in 2012. Since this handling complement additionally includes alternative ultimate versions of software, it is most appropriate to sense as most as probable in allege rsther than than watchful for a final minute.

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