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Here I will give you instructions as to how you can reformat your dell laptop hard disk and restore the factory image ( the hard disk contents with which your laptop came when you bought it). You will need your vista dvd for this. I will be assuming that C: is your Operating system partition and D: is your recovery partition. 1. Boot the computer using your vista dvd. 2. Select Repair. Then select command line. 3. Goto your recovery drive ...

Power the computer on. When the Dell screen appears press and hold the key on the keyboard, press the key, then release them both at the same time. The Dell PC Restore by Symantec window appears. Click the Restore button or press the key to highlight Restore and press the key. A caution message appears advising that all data will be lost. Click the Confirm button or press the key to highlight Confirm and press the key. The Progress ...

Start the computer. As the computer starts, press the F8 key until the Advanced Boot Options menu appears on the screen. Press the (Down Arrow) to select Repair Your Computer on the Advanced Boot Options menu, and then press Enter. Specify the language settings that you want, and then click Next. Log in as a user who has administrative credentials, and then click OK. Click Dell Factory Image Restore. In the Dell Factory Image ...

A recovery disk is also known as a rescue disk. Recovery disk is an important and necessary component through which you can easily back-up and restore your system files and folders. With a rescue disk, you can keep all of your basic and fundamental information safe that your machine needs to function accurately. There are numerous viruses and spyware over the Internet, which over time, might get into your computer, sometimes, by even bypassing ...

The Windows 2003 Support Tools consist of a number of command-line utilities, visual basic scripts, GUI based applications, and documents - all of which you must install from a seperate application. The Support Tools are not automatically installed when you install Windows 2003; their installation isn’t an option in the Windows 2003 setup. The installation program is located on the CD-ROM in the \support\tools folder and the setup file (suptools.msi) must be opened manually ...

Introduced with Windows 95, the Registry is a central repository for unique user and machine configuration data. In basic terms, it is a big database that holds all of the Windows 2003 configuration information – settings relative to user accounts, machine hardware and applications. Everything from user preferences (such as the background colour, screensaver, etc), to encrypted local account passwords are in there. The registry was brought about to replace the old .INI files (that ...

Unfortunately, in Windows NT Disk Quotas didn’t exist, which was much to the disappointment of Windows Administrators. Along came Windows 2000 and with the introduction of Disk Quotas it meant Administrators had the ability to track and control user disk usage. The only problem was that they didn’t really have a sufficient way of managing disk quotas. Scripting, reporting and remote usage methods were somewhat limited and ambiguous. Windows 2003 offers better all round ...

The DHCP server assigns a client an IP address taken from a predefined scope for a given amount of time. If an IP address is required for longer than the lease has been set for, the client must request an extension before the lease expires. If the client has not requested an extension on the lease time, the IP address will be considered free and can be assigned to another client. If the user ...

More years ago than I care to think about, IP addresses were handed out to companies on an indiscriminant basis. As the popularity of the Internet increased, IP addresses soon grew to be a scarce commodity. Internet service providers began to strictly limit the number of IP addresses that they would lease to companies. This presented an interesting challenge. A PC has to have an IP address in order to communicate with the Internet, ...

In this article I will walk you through the Advanced TCP/IP settings dialog and its relevant tabs, so that you can better understand what each option is used for and how to configure it. Windows 2003 comes with a number of new features for TCP/IP, including support for IP Version 6, automatically determining the Interface and Gateway metric, and the Alternate configuration tab which allows you to specify an alternate IP Address to use in absence ...