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A few months ago my neighbor got a new computer that has factory installed
Vista on it.
Up front ... I know little to nothing about Vista. I use XP; and plan to do
so as long as I can.
Back to my neighbor. Immediately upon him telling me of his purchase, I
advised him then, and several more times during the next few days, to be sure
and check to see if it required him to do a Recovery Disk creation ... much
like mine did about a year ago, with XP, when I bought it.
Well, it now turns out that my advice was correct; but was not listened to.
Today he comes over complaining about a bunch of trouble he is having. In
asking, it was determined that he has installed other programs, and something
he says was updates from Vista. But ... NO ... creation of disks. Boy, am I
++ssed ... to say the least.
I offered, like a dummy, to take a look at it to see if I can get it to work
for him. Claims he cannot get his emails for one thing. In preparation to
do this tomorrow, I asked, and looked in his bag of booklets and disks.
Turns out he only has a dvd from Vista in plastic pouch entitled Windows
Anytime Upgrade .... which I presume may be connected with his earlier
comment about 'upgrade download'.
In a word ....... he knows absolutely nothing about computers ...... and on
top of that, ignored several admonishments to do the recovery creation.
Now, in looking thru his booklets, I see there is an option to restore using
the hard disk version. Now my questions.
1. Is there anyway to create an unadultered version of the Recovery Disks
that do not have all the other 'junque' he has installed; drivers and all?
I'm presuming not.
2. If not, and if I do a recovery for him from the hard disk version, that
will void his ... I'm presuming ... expenditure to MSN for the online upgrade
process. (Like I said, I am not versed in Vista at all.) Or is there an
upgrade process like in XP where you sign in and download files that get
installed.
3. If not for #2, then is there a fee to get the upgrades downloaded again,
and what would it be .... and can it be saved to hard drive rather than
installed immediately? I ask this because ..... no doubt ..... he will be
bothering me later on; and it would be nice to have it available to
re-install.
Any advise would be appreciated.
Chuck
Vista on it.
Up front ... I know little to nothing about Vista. I use XP; and plan to do
so as long as I can.
Back to my neighbor. Immediately upon him telling me of his purchase, I
advised him then, and several more times during the next few days, to be sure
and check to see if it required him to do a Recovery Disk creation ... much
like mine did about a year ago, with XP, when I bought it.
Well, it now turns out that my advice was correct; but was not listened to.
Today he comes over complaining about a bunch of trouble he is having. In
asking, it was determined that he has installed other programs, and something
he says was updates from Vista. But ... NO ... creation of disks. Boy, am I
++ssed ... to say the least.
I offered, like a dummy, to take a look at it to see if I can get it to work
for him. Claims he cannot get his emails for one thing. In preparation to
do this tomorrow, I asked, and looked in his bag of booklets and disks.
Turns out he only has a dvd from Vista in plastic pouch entitled Windows
Anytime Upgrade .... which I presume may be connected with his earlier
comment about 'upgrade download'.
In a word ....... he knows absolutely nothing about computers ...... and on
top of that, ignored several admonishments to do the recovery creation.
Now, in looking thru his booklets, I see there is an option to restore using
the hard disk version. Now my questions.
1. Is there anyway to create an unadultered version of the Recovery Disks
that do not have all the other 'junque' he has installed; drivers and all?
I'm presuming not.
2. If not, and if I do a recovery for him from the hard disk version, that
will void his ... I'm presuming ... expenditure to MSN for the online upgrade
process. (Like I said, I am not versed in Vista at all.) Or is there an
upgrade process like in XP where you sign in and download files that get
installed.
3. If not for #2, then is there a fee to get the upgrades downloaded again,
and what would it be .... and can it be saved to hard drive rather than
installed immediately? I ask this because ..... no doubt ..... he will be
bothering me later on; and it would be nice to have it available to
re-install.
Any advise would be appreciated.
Chuck