Vista Frequently Asked Questions

  
        I can't boot

Unable to boot is a more common and serious fault. Previously under XP, this kind of fault requires manual repair by the user. Under Vista
, you only need to boot the machine through the CD to enter the recovery console, and then enter the fixboot command, Vista will automatically detect the startup failure, and automatically use the BCDMD command to repair. This is a great help for the average user and is commendable.

Second, the weather can not display the sidebar

Chinese version of Windows Vista, "weather" sidebar tool by default can not be used. The reason is because the locale is not correct, you can fix it by following the steps below.

1. Open “Control Panel→Clock, Language and Region→Region and Language Options”

2. Set “Current Format” to “English (United States)”

3, go to the "location" page, the "current location" is set to "America" ​​

4, go to the "management", click "change
system locale" set "English (US)"

5, restart your computer.

6. Click the setting button in the upper right corner of the weather widget, use the Chinese Pinyin to enter the name of the city you want to find in the “Current Location” text box. For example, you can enter “Beijing” in Beijing to view the corresponding The weather in the city is gone. After

However, the region is set to the United States, some
software may not display Chinese, but fortunately I heard that Microsoft has fixed this problem in Windows Update in the.

three shots Huaping

Many times you will find that, Vista itself showed no problem, but whether it is with the Print Screen key, or other screenshot tools, the resulting figure will be part of the video, Sometimes it is a piece, sometimes a piece. This is mainly caused by the imperfect graphics card driver that comes with Vista. The solution is to download
and install the latest version of the graphics card driver, which can be easily solved.

four letter confusion

letter from Win95 era disorder will often occur, this time Vista more serious. If you are installing Vista from a CD, the system will set its partition to Area C, and then arrange other partitions according to management. To solve the problem of Vista's drive letter is not easy, you need to manually set the drive letter in the disk management, and then re-upgrade the installation system. Specific steps are as follows:

1, go to "Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Computer Management → Disk Management" and then one by one deranged letter to look like you want.

2, restart Vista, then you will receive a lot of error message, but can not enter the desktop. Press the "Win+R" key combination to start the "Run" box, then click "Browse", find Setup.exe under your Vista installation CD, click "OK" to start the Vista installer.

3, when the installer you choose to upgrade or new installation, be sure to choose a new installation, installed after this, Vista will not mess change your drive letter. The old Vista will be automatically backed up to a Windows.old directory by the installer, although it can be deleted.

Fifth, use QQ blue screen

before the 2007 version of QQ is not normally used in Vista, it will run a blue screen, which is due to keyboard input encryption controls adopted by use of the underlying Drive technology, not compatible with Windows Vista.

Solution: First turn off QQ, QQ then enter the installation directory and delete npkcrypt.sys, npkcrypt.vxd and npkcusb.sys three files, you can start the QQ. However, since the relevant files of the keyboard encryption control have been deleted, QQ will prompt your machine to have a Trojan virus
, ignore it, and use the soft keyboard to enter the password to log in.

six retrieve the disappearance of the "Run" dialog

By default, the bottom of the Start menu of Vista is not that familiar with the "run" command, this will give some Higher level operations are inconvenient. We can call up the "Run" dialog box in the following two ways.

1, through the "Win + R" key combination to open the "Run" dialog box, we've used this trick in the fourth question in.

2, point right on the Start menu, choose "Properties", go to Start Menu Properties setting interface, click "Customize" button at the bottom, find the "show run" in the list below and tick the box Select, then click "Confirm" to exit, you can see that the "Run" command reappears at the bottom of the Start menu.
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