If you are using the Windows Vista operating system in your computer, there are chances that you will experience issues often. At times the best option is to call up Windows tech support. Some people use Vista help and Support Center instead, and this works just as well in many cases.
There’s a way to bookmark a specific Vista help and Support Center article, if you find that it might be of use in the future. This is advised because Vista’s Help and Support Center is usually directed to the Microsoft Windows Help Web site, where there’s probably a permanent fix for almost any problem. After opening the web page, go ahead and save the URL, unless you want to print the article instead.
If you do not know how to bookmark a Windows Vista Help and Support Center article, you can follow the instructions mentioned below:
There’s a way to bookmark a specific Vista help and Support Center article, if you find that it might be of use in the future. This is advised because Vista’s Help and Support Center is usually directed to the Microsoft Windows Help Web site, where there’s probably a permanent fix for almost any problem. After opening the web page, go ahead and save the URL, unless you want to print the article instead.
If you do not know how to bookmark a Windows Vista Help and Support Center article, you can follow the instructions mentioned below:
- First, you need to locate the Help article you would like to refer to. Here, let us suppose you are searching for an article by the name Which CD or DVD Format Should I Use.
- After finding the article, you can right-click in the body of the article followed by the View Source option. You will see a notepad window pop up, which contains the actual HTML source code behind the help article.
- Here, you need to check for article’s 36-character ID number. You can find this number immediately after text, and it will look a lot like: mshelp://windows/?id=.
- Make sure you select that text and copy it to the Windows Clipboard. So, if you are looking for the article mentioned above, you need to select 2af64e60-60aa-4d79-ab6c-3a5db5806cbe1033, and copy it to the Clipboard.
- Now, you can open your web browser and go to the website: windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/, then the 36-digit ID number, followed by .mspx. For the CD format article, this would be windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/2af64e60-60aa-4d79-ab6c-3a5db5806cbe1033.mspx.
- You will be able to see the Help and Support Center article in your browser. Now, just like you’d bookmark any content on a normal website, you can do the same for this article as well. So, Bookmark the page if you want to.
- Now, according to the Windows tech support team, you need to open a new tab with the page/Help article. Here, you can copy the address and insert it in a new e-mail message. You can use this email to tell others how to get to a specific Help article.
- Now, simply drag a shortcut to the site/Help article onto your computer’s desktop.
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