Howto: Automatically Slipstream Windows XP with SP2 and All Post-SP2 Security...
Ross has updated his batch file xpsp2.cmd to automatically download and slipstream a standard Windows XP boot disk with Service Pack 2 and all post-SP2 security hotfixes. It uses wget, curl, or your...
View ArticleWindows XP SP3 and Associated Resources
Windows XP SP3 is now available for download. Before you manually update your machine, check out KB936929, Release notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3. It has links to vaious other KB articles that...
View ArticleHowto: Register Firefox Portable as the default Windows browser
Ramesh has written some instructions detailing how to register Firefox Portable as the default browser for Windows XP and Windows Vista. He uses a utility called DefaultBrowser to define the default...
View ArticleHowto: Fix Slow USB 2.0 file transfer on Windows XP
USB storage devices can be optimized for either quick removal or performance. If optimized for quick removal, data transfer can potentially be reduced to a crawl. To optimize your USB drive for...
View ArticleHowto: Disable the clicking sound in Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer
The clicking sound that Windows plays when you click on a link in Internet Explorer or open a folder in Windows Explorer can get annoying. Here’s how to disable the sound in Windows XP: Click Start...
View ArticleHowto: Do not display the name of the user who has locked a Windows computer...
Normally when a Windows workstation or server is locked, you’ll see something similar to the following Windows Security message: This computer is in use and has been locked. Only DOMAIN\USER (user...
View ArticleFix: The IP address you have entered for this network adapter is already...
I brought up a snapshot of a Windows Server 2003 R2 guest today and could not login to the domain. After further review I found the server had lost its static TCP/IP settings – both NICs were set to...
View ArticleFind Windows system uptime from the command line
Here’s a quick and easy way of checking how long a Windows server or workstation has been up, via the command line. It pipes the results of Net Statistics Workstation into find. Run the following...
View ArticleFix: Setup cannot copy the file winhlp32.exe when installing Windows XP SP3
Our desktop team has finally started deploying Windows XP Service Pack 3 to corporate computers. Their silent installation package kept failing on my laptop. I finally ran the installer manually, and...
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