Windows Vista Home Premium is a great operating system, but it can be improved with a few simple tweaks. In this article, we will show you how to turn Vista Home Premium into an ultimate operating system. First, you will need to create a disk image of your computer. To do this, open Vista Home Premium and click the Start button. Type “diskimage” into the search box and press Enter. This will open the Disk Image Manager. Click the Create button and give your disk image a name. Click OK to close the Disk Image Manager. Now that you have created your disk image, you will need to copy it to another location on your computer. To do this, open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location where you saved your disk image. Right-click on the disk image and select Copy. Then click OK to close Windows Explorer and finish copying the disk image to your computer. Now that you have copied your disk image onto your computer, it is time to make some changes to Vista Home Premium. First, open Vista Home Premium and click the Start button again. Type “regedit” into the search box and press Enter. This will open the Registry Editor window. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shells. Right-click on Shells and select New -> Key from the menu options that appears. Name this key “Default”. Double-click on Default in order to create a new subkey under Shells called Startup Items . Right-click on Startup Items and select New -> Key from the menu options that appears . Name this key “All Users”. Click OK in order for these changes to take effect . Now that you have made these changes, it is time for final steps of turning Vista Home Premium into an ultimate operating system! First, launch Command Prompt by typing cmd in Start Menu search box or ..
Complete PC Backup and Restore should not be confused with Automatic Backup which only backup up files and settings. Auto backup is available on all versions of Vista except for Home Basic.
Today we will look at one option to create an image of a hard drive with Vista Home Premium using the free utility DriveImage XML. These Screenshots were taken on an XP machine … the application works the same for both Vista and XP
DriveImage XML allows you to back up files and complete disk images into an XML file which you can use to restore the copy later.
The application is extremely easy to use. Just follow through the steps with the Drive Backup Wizard.
It is as easy as finding the drive you want to back up and deciding where to back up the XML image to. DriveImage XML even allows you to back up the disc while you are still using it.
Progress of the back up is shown by sector.
Additional features include disk to disk backup and you can use Task Scheduler to automate the process for you. Backing up to a network drive is also available. DriveImage XML is free and is a superb disk imaging solution to add to Vista Home Premium. This application also works with Windows XP.
