The Only Thing I Like About Vista

Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical

The only thing that I truly love about Vista, is the recovery options available.

Command Prompt

I was trying to patch some files for themeing (more on that later), and screwed up my shell32.dll file. I could have just repaired the installation, but I opted to format my C: drive. Since all of my files were already on another partition, I just needed to copy some files on my desktop. That’s when the command prompt came in handy. All I did was:


C:\> d:
D:\> mkdir OldDesktop
D:\> c:
C:\> xcopy \users\jonathan\desktop d:\olddesktop /s /e

mkdir command makes a directory, and xcopy command copies entire directories.

After some effort, I was able to patch my uxtheme and apply visual styles to my Vista. The instructions here are pretty good, but remember than you only need to patch the 3 files. The tricky thing is, when you try to copy certain files (by copy and pasting them), it might not work. I had to use xcopy (again) to forcefully copy certain files. Anyway, patching uxtheme in Vista is definitely not for the faint hearted.

Permalink | September 20th, 2007

3 Responses to “The Only Thing I Like About Vista”

  1. Jeffrey04 Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 1:31 am

    xcopy? i think volume shadow copy is already in vista if not mistaken, that would be a better choice if available :D

  2. Jonathan Ng Says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 10:25 am

    Shadow copy? I think it’s kinda stupid.. I don’t want my entire C: drive backed up, external hard disk not big :p there’s no option for me to select particular folders only…

  3. TerRenCe Says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    should use WinPE boot disk.
    something like LaoMaoTao WinPE provides windows XP interface wif lozta recovery such as ghost. and files are transfer faster as drivers are loaded…

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