Help Desk Geek – Help Desk Tips For IT Pros

If you are running Windows Vista Business or Ultimate, you probably know about the Volume Shadow service, which creates shadow copies of your files in places like My Documents. If you have no idea what I am talking about, right-click on a folder or file in My Documents that’s been around for a while and [...]

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Yesterday Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta to the public. If you have been waiting for a second service pack for Windows Vista, give the new beta a shot! You can download Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Server 2008 here. Note that this is the beta version [...]

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Recently, I installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista on a new PC at out office and everything went fine. I had no errors or problems during the install. So I pulled out the CD and restarted the computer, only to be shown this error message: Bootmgr is missing. Press ctrl-alt-del to restart. Fabulous! A [...]

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Up to now, I’ve talked about setting up BitLocker, enabling BitLocker with TPM, and enabling BitLocker without a TPMh, and in Part IV of this series, I’m going to talk about how to recover data from a drive that is protected by BitLocker in case something goes wrong! So what can possibly go wrong with [...]

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The last two days I have talked about setting up your hard drive for BitLocker encryption and turning on BitLocker in Windows Vista in my series on BitLocker Drive Encryption. However, in order to use BitLocker, you have to partition your hard drive correctly and have a compatible Trusted Platform Module (TPM) BIOS. In the [...]

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In Part I of my series on encrypting a hard drive with BitLocker, I discussed the requirements that have to be met in order to use BitLocker and also described the steps needed to create the necessary partitions in Vista. Once you have completed these steps, you can now turn on or enable BitLocker in [...]

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Windows Vista comes with a new feature called Bitlocker Drive Encryption that is much better and much stronger than the encryption in Windows XP. It basically ensures that data on your computer will remain encrypted even if the operating system is not running, which prevents “offline” attacks, such as removing the hard drive, etc. It’s [...]

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Microsoft is making every effort to evaporate all the bad publicity Windows Vista got when it was released last year. The truth is that up until now Windows Vista has not improve in performance or comparability, and people are still bashing Vista left and right, and with a good reason; according to my testing, Windows [...]

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Windows Vista introduced many new features including this nice utility called Windows Mobility Center which grouped all mobile features in one tool. let’s look at each of them. Windows Vista Windows Mobility Center can be accessed by clicking on the Start Button then click on All Programs click on Accessories, then choose Windows Mobility Center [...]

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Last week I decided to upgrade my home computer to Windows vista. One of the reasons I wanted to get vista on my home desktop was because I use a TV tuner to watch TV and Windows vista media center seemed to be irresistible for me, so I went for it. Read more about the [...]

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