Microsoft(R) Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 RELEASE
Version 2007 Release Notes
March 2007
Contents
Overview
Components
of Winternals Administrator's Pak technologies are
now available as the Microsoft(R) Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0, which
is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance.
Customers looking for desktop diagnostic and recovery tools with functionality
similar to Administrator's Pak should refer to the recently announced Microsoft
Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/optimizeddesktop.
More
information about the Winternals product acquisition
can be found at http://www.winternals.com/Faq.aspx.
Microsoft
Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 is a complete suite of powerful and
versatile tools that allow you to repair unbootable or locked-out systems,
restore lost data, and diagnose system and network issues while the system is
safely offline. Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 includes the following tools:
Supported
platforms:
Unsupported
platforms:
What Has Changed
Since Winternals Administrator's Pak 5.0?
A
complete product review has been performed to meet Microsoft quality
requirements.
The
following tools have been removed:
The
following functionality has been removed:
The
following functionalities have been added for security, reliability, and
supportability:
Locksmith
Wizard reports events in the Security event log on the computer where the
password of a user is reset.
The
ERD System Restore Wizard restores more Windows configurations settings than
the Administrator's Pak, which only resets the registry. The ERD System Restore
Wizard restores or updates the following items:
o
Windows
System Restore Log
o
Windows
Registry
o
File
Operation (addition, modify, rename, delete)
o
Folder
Operation (addition, modify, rename, delete)
o
SID/RID
correct handling
o
WMI
Repository Support
o
Components
execution cleanup
Except
for these modifications, Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 is in parity with the features shipped with Winternals Administrator's Pak 5.0.
Known Limitations
Due to the product and Windows Behavior
Before installing
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0, the existing installation of Winternals Administrator's Pak 5.0 must be removed from the
computer. After the Winternals Administrator's Pak
5.0 has been uninstalled, the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0
can be installed.
To uninstall
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0, ensure that the network installation
point is still available.
It is not recommended
to start ERD Commander on a computer running Windows Vista. ERD Commander is
built on WinPE 2003, and booting a WinPE 2003 CD on a computer running Windows Vista will
delete all Windows Vista System Restore points.
Note that this does
not affect the Windows Vista System Restore to create new System Restore Restore Points after booting back to Windows Vista.
If you change the
password of a user account that owns encrypted files, the user account will no
longer be able to access the files. For example, if you use the Locksmith
Wizard to reset the password of the administrator account, the administrator
account will not be able to access any of the encrypted files. The same rule
applies to user accounts that own encrypted files.
For more information
about encrypted file usages, see http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/2fae3470-742d-4902-95ab-f77cbafb12d41033.mspx
The ERD System
Restore Wizard does not perform a complete System Restore operation as the
Windows System Restore of Windows XP SP2.
The ERD System
Restore Wizard does NOT restore the following information:
o
ACL
changes on files and folders support
o
SAM
Password hashes
o
Attribute
changes
o
Alternate
data streams
Therefore, once the
Windows XP SP2 system is back online, it is recommended that you execute a
Windows System Restore from a restore point of your choice. The ERD System
Restore Wizard should be used to perform the bare minimum of actions that will
enable a Windows XP system to start.
Note that the ERD
System Restore Wizard is only supported on Windows XP SP2. Windows Server 2003
does not implement the Windows System Restore.
Files
This
distribution installs the following files:
o
Crashanalyze.exe
o
ERDC.EXE
o
Eula.rtf
o
FileRestore.chm
o
FileRestore.exe
o
License.txt
o
MSDaRT.chm
o
MSDartCmn.dll
o
Relnotes.txt
o
StarBurn.dll
o
Wnaspi32.dll
Documentation
For
documentation on how to use the tools in Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery
Toolset 5.0, please refer to the MSDaRT.CHM help file, which is in the
"Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset" installation folder.
Redistributables
None of
the files in the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 are
Redistributables.
More Information
For
more information about Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0 see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/optimizeddesktop.
Feedback
We are
interested in your feedback on Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0. You
can send your feedback directly to dartreq@microsoft.com.
This feedback
is not a support channel, but your feedback will help us to plan future changes
for these tools to make them more useful to you in the future.