When you backup your system using this technique the system is backed up in a crash-consistent state. When you restore from the backup it’s like someone yanked the power cord out of your computer at the time you started the backup. The file system used in Windows Vista Home (NTFS) can cope with that so [...]
You can schedule the backup script to run on a regular basis, e.g. once a week.
Firstly, if you do not have the Windows Vista Setup CD:
First try pressing F8 when your computer is botting. If the Advanced Boot Options screen appears select Repair your Computer. Skip steps 1-5 below.
If the Repair your Computer option is not shown or you cannot get to the Advanced Boot Options screen, visit this website: [...]
How to restore your system onto a new hard disk (in the event your old one dies).
Create a directory to contain the programs required to perform a backup (e.g. call it Backup).
Copy vshadow.exe and dosdev.exe to that directory.
Create a file called backup.cmd with the following contents:
robocopy is included with Windows Vista Service Pack 1- older versions won’t work.
Vista Service Pack 1 may be downloaded from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb738089.aspx
vshadow is included in the Microsoft SDK
The Microsoft SDK may be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E6E1C3DF-A74F-4207-8586-711EBE331CDC&displaylang=en. You need to install at least the Win32 Development Tools. vshadow.exe may be found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin\vsstools.
You also [...]
Windows Vista Home doesn’t come with the Complete PC Backup feature found in the Business and Ultimate editions.
The good news is you can use some freely available Microsoft tools to perform regular scheduled backups of your complete PC that can be restored onto ‘bare metal’ (e.g. a new hard disk to replace one that failed).
The [...]
The standard taskbar buttons in KDE are quite small and hard to hit on a high resolution screen. This patch makes the KDE taskbar use big buttons with large icons instead.
bigtaskbar.patch
To apply the patch:
cd kdebase-3.5.5
patch < /path/to/bigtaskbar.patch
Then to rebuild just the taskbar shared object:
cd kdebase-3.5.5
./configure
cd kicker/taskbar
make
make install
After applying the patch edit ~/.kde/share/config/ktaskbarrc and under the [...]