but vista is not supported? and trial? wow ... :(
hubka.net
2 Apr 2008 4:49 PM
2 Apr 2008 5:00 PM
Actually Vista IS supported (why do you think not - it is build on the Vista bits).
The reason why it is a trial is, that the whole Desktop Optimization Pack is part of the Software Assurance licence
Roger
Shoaib Yousuf
3 Apr 2008 6:04 AM
Excellent Post Roger,
I was not aware of this one. Its something we should try and use.
Cheers
Shoaib
Ben Kirkness
6 May 2008 1:57 PM
When you run the MSI on a Vista PC...
[Installer Information]
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 requires that your computer is running Windows 2000 or Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server
[OK]
8 May 2008 2:35 PM
Now, I really have to take the blame..... :-(
The tool I linked you to is version 5. I downloaded the tool internally and had access to 6.0. So all the screenshots above are from a Vista-machine and of 6.0....
I will investigate this and post again as soon as I know where you can find the link to the 6.0 trial
Sorry about this
Roger
Doran
15 Aug 2008 5:57 PM
So what ever became of version 6... I see version 5 is available
Ramesh
25 Sep 2008 1:58 PM
Nice post! The feature I like the most is the "System Restore". I've blogged about that recently.
Perform a System Restore rollback on a non-bootable Windows XP computer:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/perform-system-restore-rollback-on-non-bootable-xp-computer/
Derek
8 Feb 2009 3:59 AM
Hi Roger. Thanks for your blog. I've been looking for version 6 myself unsuccessfully. I don't even know how to buy it! The reason I'm interested is because a Vista system went into a perpetual loop of configuring updates and rebooting after installing a routine .NET framework 3.5 update. I've never seen anything quite like it before. In any case I tried to roll back the system with System Restore from the Vista install CD but I got error 0x8007000E. There's way more than 512MB of RAM in that system so I don't understand this. I heard that ERD Commander (now owned by Microsoft and supposedly re-purposed as DaRT uses a third party system restore. Is this true? Any idea what was causing the error with the Vista disc? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Karl
17 Feb 2009 1:58 PM
So basically, it's Winternals ERD only locked down so it's less useful....
Burr
8 Aug 2009 2:37 PM
Cant buy it unless you own bulk licensing for microsoft products. Called several times and actually said to one, Sell me whatever you need to sell me so I can buy it! no response.
Ruben Mar
4 Oct 2010 5:26 PM
Damn damn and useless! I loath Microsoft, pain in the butt as always! So where do we get this repair toolkit??? Doooo - MS forgot to explain that useful part! Dummies! And why does Windows allow applications to hog all the resources to the point that even Task Manager won´t run (not in a lifetime anyway!)? Windows is pathetic!