Do you want to learn more tricks? You can find 58 step by step instruction with detail picture in this : Unleash Vista Power Advance Guide
I think everyone has faced something like this: installed Windows properly, installed software and configure everything nicely, tune every setting and registry nicely... and one step wrong by installing some stupid software or take a step wrong in registry tuning, BSOD and restart!
BSOD stands for Blue Screen Of Dead! What a good name; and now you have no choice but to re-install again. After two long hours of installation and setup, guest what? BSOD again and you must be sitting there cursing Bill Gates or yourself!
You can totally avoid that if you plan your installation properly. What I suggest you can do is separate Operating System (O.S.) and data. You can partition your hard disk into 3 logical drives: C - for Vista, D - for general data, E - for documents only!
Why didn't I combine D+E into 1 drive? Because I want to disable Vista restore the system on all drives but the documents, because I want my documents to have multiple versions. This is not just applied to Business and Ultimate, because Home edition with some tweak will be able to use this feature too!
Now you start to install Vista on C, before installing any software, you perform a hard disk image backup on C, using either this 2 software:
1. Paragon Drive Backup
2. Acronis TrueImage
I would only recommend you to use a free software call Seagate DiscWizard (Powered by Acronis) if you are using the hard disk from Seagate or Maxtor, because this program will not work on other brand hard drive. I know there are some other free and paid solution, but I highly recommend this because you need a "Quick" restore plan!
Use the software to create a backup drive image into D, then continue your installation and configuration. After some big software installation, such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Master Collection, you should perform the backup with different name. Keep multiple backup, you will not know when and what went wrong during the installation.
Safe guard your image copy of clean Vista installation and the latest installation, and any installation that is marked as milestone by you.
With such Quick Restore plan in place, you can safely test your configuration and tweak, anything goes wrong, you just press the restore button!
Next step you will be trying different types of settings. Some requires hardware investment, some just to tune your registry.
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