Lesson 2: Installing Windows Vista

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Figure 1-8

Configuring a username and password

NOTE

Label a computer clearly

Although it is not critical in the home, it is easy to lose track of computer names if you work in a

large environment. In such an environment, you should label the exterior of a computer with its

computer name. That way it is easier to track the computer down when you get a message in the

server log that something has gone wrong with a particular client computer.

The next stage of the installation process asks whether you want to install updates. The

options are as follows:

■

Use Recommended Settings This installs important and recommended updates and

helps make Internet browsing safer. It also contacts Microsoft to see if there are solutions

to any problems you encounter, such as a missing hardware driver.

■ Install Important Updates Only Download and install any important security updates

Microsoft has issued since Windows Vista’s release.

■ Ask Me Later Do nothing at the moment. A warning is provided that the computer

might be vulnerable to security threats.

Although it might seem obvious that using the recommended settings is the best solution,

there are good reasons why you might select Ask Me Later. If you are installing 100 Windows

Vista computers, you will not want each one of them downloading a copy of the same files over

your company’s Internet connection from the Windows Update servers. Windows Update is

a free service through which Microsoft provides patches and updates to your software. It is

possible to install Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), an additional component that

runs on Windows Server software that allows an organization to have a local Windows Update

server. Each of the 100 Windows Vista computers would be able to retrieve all released