Notice to all helpers: New Vista feature you should be aware of

[Zylstra]

In Vista, there is a whole new boot menu, and I think that you should all be aware of it.
There is now a System Repair tool (I urge you all to check it out on a test computer the next time you go to your friendly office store) that can be accessed via the Boot Menu (F8 key on startup)

It has a repair tool that goes through and checks various issues that may be a result to system failure.
image: http://supcontent.gateway.com/support.gateway.com/s/software/microsof/Vista/graphics/lastknown/AdvancedBootOptions.gif

The menu option is titled "Repair your Computer"
A screenshot of it can be seen here:
http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/US/28190303527917688/faq_repair.png

This tool works excellently for fixing STOP issues, driver related problems, disk errors, and other things that may prevent the computer from starting...

I think it will work fine as a first diagnostic tool

Just thought you might like to know

-Zylstra

[Broni]

Nice. Thank you.

[Soviet_Genius]

LOL when I saw the title I was expecting this to be some major glitch/screw up in Vista

[dairyman]

Wow!! Vista is really smart.

[Zylstra]

Sorry if I slacked off on any information, I was posting in a hurry...
Feel free to ask any questions, comment, etc... I dont know the specifics of how it works, I did use it once on a STOP error, it got the computer back up and running in about a half hour (it can take a while... probably not best to do this off battery)