When it comes to computers in general, and Windows in partiCUlar. ' prevention is usually far better than cure. Rather than waiting for something to go wrong and then panicking to find a solution, it is advisable to have a number of safeguards in place to either help avoid problems in the first place, or at least to make it easier to get everything back to normal.



A combination of good practices and preferable computing habits can help to avoid disaster down the line, and Vista includes more features as standard to help avoid problems than any previous version of Windows. Over the next few pages, we'll be looking at how many computer crises can be averted altogether with a little know-how.