Coping with Start-Up Problems

Windows is notorious for crashing and freezing, making it impossible to start the computer, or garbling things so badly that you'd think the screen went through a garbage disposal. Microsoft has poured a lot of time, effort and money into teaching Windows how to heal itself. You can take advantage of all that work - if you know where to find it.

Tips
If you read nothing else in this tutorial, follow my advice in this section and get Windows 7 to make you a system repair disc.

Learn more:

• Creating a system repair disc

• Using the system repair disc

• Running in Safe Mode

• Working with Backups

• Restoring a file with shadow copies (previous versions)

• Maintaining previous versions on different drives

• Creating data backups

• Managing and restoring data backups

• Getting back the image backup

• Maintaining Drives

• Running an error check

• Defragmenting a drive

• Using System Restore and Restore Points

• Creating a restore point

• Rolling back to a restore point

• Scheduling the Task Scheduler

• Starting with your parameters

• Scheduling a task

• Zipping and Compressing

• Compressing with NTFS

• Zipping the easy way with Compressed (zipped) Folders and more