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Chapter 1

Installing Windows Vista Client

16. On the Help Protect Windows Automatically page, click Use Recommended Settings.

17. On the Review Your Time And Date Settings page, select your time zone. If you live in a

region that uses daylight savings time, ensure that the Automatically Adjust Clock For

Daylight Savings Time check box is selected. Ensure that the date is correct and that the

time setting is accurate to within several minutes of the current time. Click Next.

18. On the Select Your Computer’s Current Location page, click Public Location.

19. Click Start to complete the installation. Windows Vista now checks the computer’s per-

formance and assigns a rating before presenting you with the logon screen.

Practice 2: Installing Windows Vista Business in a Dual Boot Configuration

In this practice, you will install Windows Vista on the second hard disk of a computer that

already has Windows XP installed. If you have performed the first Windows Vista installation

practice, there is no need to perform this practice.

1. Ensure that the Windows Vista installation DVD is in the DVD-ROM drive.

NOTE

Preparing for dual boot

This practice is offered for people who do not have enough RAM to run virtual machines or

who want to dual boot their current computer with Windows Vista.

There are two basic ways of preparing an existing computer to dual boot. The first is to install

a second hard disk drive. The second is to purchase a disk repartitioning tool. Given the

licensing fees and the chance of losing data, we recommend that you purchase a second

internal hard disk drive.

Several software tools will reliably repartition a disk that currently holds data. The license fee

for these tools is around the same cost as a new hard disk drive with several hundred

gigabytes of storage.

2. Turn on the computer. When you see the prompt:

Press any key to boot from CD or DVD

press the spacebar. This starts the Windows Vista installation routine.

3. After several moments, you should see the language options screen. Set the options

appropriate to your language, currency, and keyboard layout, and click Next.

4. On the Install Windows page, click Install Now. This begins the installation process.

5. The next screen is the activation page. Clear the Automatically Activate Windows When

I’m Online check box. You will perform product activation in Chapter 3, “Troubleshoot-

ing Post-Installation System Settings.” Click Next.

6. In the Do You Want To Enter Your Product Key Now dialog box, click No.

7. In the Select The Edition Of Windows That You Purchased page, select Windows Vista

Business, and then select the I Have Selected The Edition Of Windows That I Purchased

check box