Follow this steps to repair your HardDisk boot record.

1. Boot from the Vista installation CD
2. Click Repair your computer
3. In System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt.
4. At the command prompt, type in Bootrec with the option you want
eg: bootrec /FixMbr
(type this will fix the master boot record)

bootrec /FixMbr

The /FixMbr option writes a Windows Vista-compatible MBR to the system partition. This option does not overwrite the existing partition table. Use this option when you must resolve MBR corruption issues, or when you have to remove non-standard code from the MBR.

bootrec /FixBoot

The /FixBoot option writes a new boot sector to the system partition by using a boot sector that is compatible with Windows Vista. Use this option if one of the following conditions is true:
The boot sector has been replaced with a non-standard Windows Vista boot sector.
The boot sector is damaged.

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If you happen to have a corrupted TCP/IP files, you can fix this by running the following commands:

1. Go to Start->Run

netsh interface ipv4 reset
netsh interface ipv6 reset

2. Reboot your computer.

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If you you have a corrupted Winsock Registry in Vista, use this method to reset it.

1. Go to Windows command prompt or ( Go to Start->run->cmd.exe)

2. type “netsh winsock reset” and then reboot your computer

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If the shutdown icon is missing in your Windows Vista, you can try this method to reset it.

1. Start -> Run -> regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
3. On the right hand panel, delete the key NoClose
4. Log off and back on again.

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Here is a quick method to disable the whole firewall system in Windows Vista.

1. Go to Start | Run | services.msc
2. Find the entry “Windows Firewall” | Right-Click it -> Properties
3. Press “Stop”
4. Change “Startup type” to “Disabled”
5. Press OK and exit.

You can also disable the Windows Firewall for a single network connection and leave it enabled for all other networks.

Follow the instruction below to disable the Windows Firewall on a single network connection.

1. Click Start and click Control Panel.
2. Click Security and then select Windows Firewall.
3. Click Change Settings.
4. From the window that appears, click the Advanced tab.
5. Remove the check beside the connection that you want to disable the Windows Firewall for.
6. Click OK.

Have Fun!

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Here is a quick Vista tips and tricks to reduce high memory usage.

Objective

We are going to disable ReadyBoost, SuperFetch, and Windows Search.

(This 3 services will eat up 70% of your ram)

Solutions

First, click the “windows” menu (old start menu), and type in the box at the bottom “services”. Hit enter after “services” appears in the list. Scroll down the big list to SuperFetch. Right click it and choose “Properties”. On the new screen, under start up type, choose “Disabled”. Scroll through the list to ReadyBoost and Windows Search and repeat.

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Thats all, enjoy!

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When installing a program with Install Shield on a Windows Vista computer, you get an error saying: “Unable to self-register oleaut32.dll“. This is a very common problem in Windows Vista. Make sure your installer is compatible with Vista. I suppose your program is coded using Visual Basic 6. When a program is installed you need to make sure the permissions are set properly in Vista. The other reason is to make sure your installer works on Vista is the folder locations that changed.

Btw, I would guess the newer version already exists in Vista and most system DLL’s are backward compatible. You shouldn’t need to register it and load it. It already exists. The problem actually lies in your installer which does not support Windows Vista.

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New to Vista? Do you know you can add more gadgets into your windows vista sidebar?

You can make your vista sidebar look as cool as possible. You can add some useful system monitoring tools, email notification, msn, media player and winamp, etc. into your sidebar.

You can download vista gadget from Microsoft official website known as Windows Live Gallery

There are over 10000+ plugins you can download for your vista sidebar from the website.

Its easy to install the plugins. Just double click on the plugin file and vista will automatically add the new gadget into your plugins list.

Have fun playing with the new vista gadgets.

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Okay, here I will show you a few simple steps to block any application that auto start in Windows Vista.

Follow this few step and you are done with it.

1. Click on the Start Button, enter Windows Defender and hit Enter.
2. Click on the Tools from the top menu bar.
3. Click on Software Explorer and select Show for All Users.
4. Select an application to either Remove or Disable.

So easy right?

Windows Defender is so useful when you know how to use it. You can use it to block spyware too.

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Do you know that there is an option that you can actually increase the performance on your SATA hard disk? You can simply enable this feature in Vista by enabling the write caching. So how to do it in the simple way?

Here is the solution:
1. Go to “Device Manager” under Windows Properties.
2. Right click on your SATA hard disk and select “Properties”.
4. On the “Policies” tab, tick this option “Enable Advanced Performance”.
5. Click OK and close Device Manager.

Wow. You are done now. More caching means faster reading in memory.

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