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How To Troubleshoot Windows Vista

Windows Vista is the new addition to operating system family of Microsoft. As the new operating system has very enhanced and rich features yet it possess some flaws or drawbacks in it. The windows vista has several drawbacks and to troubleshoot those drawbacks and errors following are some tips. These tips will help to overcome the problems faced by the windows Vista users.

Problem One

If windows Vista is slower on your PC on hangs up it is due to the memory problem. Make sure your computer meets the minimum requirements as required by Windows Vista. It is recommended that you use 1 GB of Ram but is can be installed on 512 MB of RAM. The second thing is that it will not work on normal processors. You must have a decent processor Dual Core and at least 120 GB of the free space on your hard disk.

Problem Two

If some software or hardware while installation process in windows Vista then use the building utility “Vista analytical tool”
It is installed by default and run automatically during the installation process. If some software has conflicts then don’t install that software it will damage to other data as well. Whenever any software conflicts, or incompatible with windows Vista, check it with analytical tool.

Problem Three

If your Windows Vista is creating a problem after inserting new hardware equipment immediately remove that hardware and see the hardware manual for its configuration and refer to the windows Vista manual to check the compatibility issue.

Problem Four

If you face problems while playing games on windows Vista then check that the required version of direct X version is installed which is compatible with windows Vista. If it is not there then install the new version of direct X. This might solve the problem. If the problem continues, check that you must have installed the graphic card which is compatible with windows Vista.

Problem Five

Call technical support for either the software or hardware that’s causing the problem, or call Microsoft technical support. You can often get pretty good technical support online through their websites.

Problem Six

If you are unable to install and use the Aero even you have the right edition of windows Vista then follow the steps. Following is the minimum requirement for running Aero on windows Vista:

• 1-gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 128-megabyte (MB) graphics card
• 1 gigabyte (GB) of
• Direct X version 9
• 64 MB of graphics memory to support
• 128 MB of graphics memory to support

How To Troubleshoot A Cisco Router

FACT GATHERING

While troubleshooting a Cisco router you must some of the prerequisite that
are very necessary while troubleshooting process. A Cisco router has very
complex and sophisticated structure and implementation. So before you start
troubleshooting you must study some the key points described below:

• First thing is to make sure that problem lies with the
  router and nature of the problem. Either the problem is on layer 3 protocol or
  it is a process error. Basically a router operates on layer 3 of the OSI
  model. This is a bit confusing when it comes to Arp (Address Resolution
  Protocol) that will cause you many problems on networks if you do not
  understand the infrastructure. Actually ARP works on Layer 2 and resolves the
  MAC address and routing issues.
• Check carefully that whether the problem lies in DNS or
  switch or firewall is a major cause of the problem.
• Check the entire access pint to ensure that they are not
  out of order.
• Spend more time on correct investigation. It will helps
  you in solving the problem efficiently.

Start to Troubleshoot the CISCO Router

Following is the sample topology and now it will helps us for the realization
of the problem.

If some part or segment of the network gets off at router A and D then see if
you could reach the paths or not. The network might get slow because router C
faces the problem and the path or links are to re converge and hence it will
lower the network speed.

Another reason of the slow down is the 56 K link. Check by sending a ping
command to both directions. You can also use remote access to manage workstation
1 of router D’s network.

You can use various tools like Tracert on Windows and for Linux it is Netware
to test in both directions. Check that you must see the path from router A and
from router D.

If you want to ping just go to the Command Prompt and make a Ping from your
local computer to some place away from last router i.e. router D. Now ping the
host such with ip 10.1.4.10.

Routing Table Problems

To show the routing table on windows environment uses the command ROUTE
PRINT. It will verify whether routing is enabled or disabled. Following figure
shows the routing table:

You can clear the routing table as ROUTE DELETE to remove one and force the
routers to relearn the addresses. This is why sometimes rebooting the routers
solve the problem. Another method is to clear the logs stored at the router to
refresh the settings.

Routing table problems include the following.

• Inactive routes
• Unneeded routes
• Black hole routes
• Flapping links Invalid route tables
• Invalid ARP cache causing incorrect IP assignment
• Problems with administrative distance or any other
  settings