Although Vista has made a lot of improvements, it still avoids problems. Let's talk about the solutions to the common problems of Vista.
First, unable to boot
Unable to boot is a more common and more serious fault, previously in XP, this kind of fault requires the user to manually repair. 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 sidebar weather can not be displayed
Chinese version of Windows Vista, the "weather" sidebar tool is not available by default. 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 → Regional and Language Options"
2, set the "current format" to "English (United States)"
3, go to the "Location" page , set "Current Location" to "United States"
4, go to "Management", click "Change System Locale", set to "English (United States)"
5, restart the 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 weather of the corresponding city. It is.
However, after setting the region to the United States, some software may not display Chinese properly, but I heard that Microsoft has fixed this problem in Windows Update.
Three, screenshots of the screen
Many times you will find that Vista itself is no problem, but whether you use the Print Screen button, or other screenshot tools, the resulting map will have a part of the screen, sometimes a, sometimes 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, the drive letter is disordered
drive letter disorder often occurs from the Win95 era, this time Vista is 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. The specific steps are as follows:
1, enter "Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Computer Management → Disk Management", and then set the wrong drive letter one by one as you want.
2, restart Vista, you will receive a lot of error prompts, and 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 installation program wants you to upgrade or a new installation, you must choose a new installation, so after installation, Vista will not mess with your drive letter. The old Vista will be automatically backed up to a Windows.old directory by the installer, although it can be deleted.
5. Using QQ Blue Screen
The QQ before 2007 is not working properly under Vista. It will be blue screen when running. This is because the keyboard input encryption control used uses the underlying driver technology, and Windows. Vista is not compatible.
Workaround: First close QQ, then enter the QQ installation directory, and delete npkcrypt.sys, npkcrypt.vxd and npkcusb.sys three files, you can start QQ. However, since the relevant files of the keyboard encryption control have been deleted, QQ will prompt your machine to have a Trojan virus. Don't worry about it, just use the soft keyboard to enter the password to log in.
6. Retrieving the disappearing "Run" dialog box
By default, Vista's start menu does not have the familiar "Run" command at the bottom, which will bring some higher-level operations. inconvenient. We can call up the "Run" dialog box in the following two ways.
1, through the "Win + R" key combination, you can open the "Run" dialog box, this trick we have used in the fourth question.
2, right click on the start menu, select "Properties", enter the start menu property setting interface, click the "Customize" button at the bottom, find "Show Run" in the list box below and check, then Click "Confirm" to exit and you will see the "Run" command reappear at the bottom of the Start menu.