Windows Vista Help on Vista System Recovery Options
Vista System Recovery Options
Many of you may already have Windows Vista installed as the primary operating system for your computers. And as such, Vista consists of a number of versatile system tools that you can use in successfully recovering your system in the event of unwanted errors.
Windows Vista help explains that the same recovery options can help you with restoring critical files for active Windows Startup or also in restoring your whole system using a backup that you may have previously created on your computer.
And in this light, you can access the System Recovery Menu from your Windows installation CD without starting the operating system. This is simply by booting your computer from the installation disc, clicking on the “Repair” function for your computer and selecting the operating system which you wish to repair.
So in taking a more detailed look into these operations for your Windows Vista computer, here are Windows Vista help instructions.
Windows Vista Help on your Vista System Recovery Options
System Restore
To begin with, the System Restore option helps you in restoring your computer’s system files to a previous point in time. And as such, this can successfully undo system changes made to your computer without impacting your personal files, including e-mail, video or other files. However, note that if you perform the restore operation in system safe mode, you cannot undo the system restore.
Windows Complete PC Restore
Windows Complete PC Restore is a process that can restore your hard disk from a backup that you created using Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore. This can recover all sorts of critical data including the complete OS and system files. It is also worth pointing out that this same restore process will delete all hard disk and user data and replace it instead with the data from the backup.
Command Prompt
This option replaces the Recovery Console from an earlier version of Windows and it allows you to use the Command Prompt to conduct recovery associated operations, activities and other command line tools in analyzing and troubleshooting problems.
Startup Repair
Status Repair can successfully fix specific problems such as missing or damaged system files which may stop your Windows from booting normally. This is by scanning your computer for the problem and then attempting to fix it.
Windows Vista Help on how to selectively delete individual cookies in Vista
The standard routine as per Microsoft’s suggestions for troubleshooting browser related problems is to reboot your computer and delete old accumulated cookies. However, Windows Vista’s help and support team points out that sometimes this might not be enough to get a stalled browser on your computer, up and running again.
Windows Vista help team also explains that when a cookie problem does occur, it is more or less caused by one particular cookie and deleting it will successfully resolve the issue.
Now, you might also have other reasons in wanting to delete specific cookies such as those set by malicious websites you may have inadvertently visited. And as such, in getting on with our article and the task at hand, let us now take a look at the steps as suggested by the Windows Vista help team in selectively deleting individual cookies on your Windows Vista computer.
Here is how.
Windows Vista’s help and support instructions in selectively deleting individual cookies on Windows Vista
Given below are the steps that you can follow in successfully deleting individual cookies from your Windows Vista computer that may have accumulated with time:
- To begin with, make sure to exit and close all other programs and applications that might still be up and running on your computer. This is to provide maximum system performance while performing the task at hand.
- Once you have done so, press and hold down on the “Windows” key from your keyboard then press “E” to open File Explorer application on your computer.
Delete cookies in Vista
- Windows Vista help explains that your Vista operating system stores all of the cookies in two separate folders. And you will need to inspect both of them to find the cookies which you wish to delete. The locations for these folders are as given below:
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
- C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low
- Now replace “USERNAME” in both folders with your own Windows username.
- Next up, copy and paste the first folder name into the address bar of your File Explorer application then press “Enter” to bring up a list of your cookie files.
- Then after, click on the “Name” column so as to sort out the cookies alphabetically. Search for the ones you want to delete.
- Now to finally erase a cookie, simply click on it and then hit on the “Delete” function. Repeat this process for the second cookie folder as mentioned earlier.
That’s all there is to it. Ciao!
