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Introducing the New and Enhanced Windows Vista Management Tools . . . . . . . . . 253
Introducing Event Viewer: What’s Changed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Introducing Task Scheduler: What’s Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Introducing Performance Rating and Monitoring: What’s New and
What’s Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Introducing the Previous Versions Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Backing Up and Recovering Windows Vista: What’s New and
What’s Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
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Deploying Windows Vista. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Introducing Deployment Enhancements for Windows Vista. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Introducing Modularization and Hardware-Independent Disk Imaging. . . . 268
Introducing the Customizable and Extensible Preinstallation
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Introducing Standards-Based Single-Format Answer Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Upgrading Computers and Migrating to New Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Deciding Whether to Upgrade or to Migrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Introducing the User State Migration Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Introducing Windows Easy Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Starting and Copying the Windows Easy Transfer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Selecting and Transferring Files and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Finalizing the Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Appendix: Installing Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
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