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• How to Create a Windows 7 System Repair Disc

  19:00 on January 5, 2010 | 0 Comments Tweet This! | Digg This!
  Tags: tips (65), windows

  Windows 7 has restored the “System Repair Disc” option so it’s easy to create.

  If you go to Start and search for “System Repair Disc“, it should find “Create a System Repair Disc”.

  If you open the application, you’ll get a prompt box to burn the image to CD/DVD.  Choose your CD/DVD burner and click “Create disc”

  If you do have any problems with your Windows 7 installation, booting from this disc allows you to perform a whole range of  features such as:

  • Startup Repair
  • System Restore
  • System Image Recovery
  • Windows Memory Diagnostics
  • Command Prompt

  So, for the cost of a single disc, you can have another option to help repair any future problems you may encounter.  Create one now!

   

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• Finding the Uptime of Windows Server 2008

  07:00 on January 5, 2010 | 0 Comments Tweet This! | Digg This!
  Tags: tips (65), windows

  So, you want to see the date and time a Windows Server 2008 box last booted up. From a command prompt run:

  C:\> systeminfo | find "System Boot Time"
  System Boot Time:          17/12/2009, 23:09:04

  You will then be shown the date and time the server was booted (as seen in the example above).

  You can just run “systeminfo” on it’s own (with no ‘| find “System Boot Time”‘), and you will be presented with a lot of other information such as Hotfixes, Network Connections, etc.

   

• Windows 7 Experience Index Performance on the Atom-powered, Asus 1005HA Netbook

  10:00 on January 3, 2010 | 0 Comments Tweet This! | Digg This!
  Tags: netbook, reviews (3), windows

  The question of “How does Windows 7 run on ………….” is often asked.

  I’ve been running an Asus Seashell 1005HA (6-Cell Battery, 63Wh) with Windows 7 for some time now, and use it as my main machine 90% of the time.

  Just as a side note, the only thing I have done is upgraded the RAM to 2GB (from the standard 1GB) by adding a single 1GB SO-DIMM to the Netbook.  For the cost and how easy it was, it was well worth the upgrade!

  The Windows 7 Experience Index is often a good guide to see how a machine will perform (processor, memory (RAM), graphics, hard disk) – the results for this Netbook are below: