Partitioning your hard drive using Windows Vista

With Windows Vista, you can partition your hard drive with out necessary using Partition Magic or any other third party partition software.

This is one of my few reasons I may fancy using Windows Vista over old versions of other windows operating systems.

Using the few steps below you can be able to partition your hard drive
Choose Disk Management from the Computer Management console to view your partitions.

Right click on the existing partition and choose “shrink volume” to create space for your new partition.

Enter amount of space to shrink

Right click on the new unallocated space and choose “New Simple Volume”

Format the new partition as NTFS and give it a name.

Windows Vista will format the new partition inside the Disk Management Console, after some minutes your newly created partition will be viewable and ready to read and write to.

Windows XP not Guinuine or Counterfeit error message

When you get a message on your computer screen showing that the copy of Windows XP you are using is not genuine or counterfeit do the following.

Go to this folder C:\Windows\Downloaded Program files; remove any files or folders associated with WGA.

Restart your computer and as soon as Windows logs off and restarts, press the F8 Key on your keyboard.

Windows Advanced Startup options will appear on your screen, select Safe Mode option.

Go to C:\Windows\System32 and the rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe.

Go to C:\Windows\System32\dllcache (Rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe)
Note: dllcache is a hidden folder, to view hidden folders do the following, go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options,
Select the view Tab and under the Hidden Files option, select Show hidden files and folders

Go to the Safe Mode Registry

Click on Start, Run and within the open dialog box type regedit and click OK.

Within the registry locate the following folder:-

HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WGALOGON

Right click and export the WGALOGON Folder (your doing this as a backup, just incase of any eventualities).

After exporting the folder, DELETE the WGALOGON folder

After deleting close all applications and reboot your machine back to Normal Mode.

After being prompted for successful validation, reboot your Machine.