Archive for the 'Windows XP' Category

Media Center Applications

The CenterStage Project
The CenterStage Project was founded in January 2005 by Neil Curry. In May 2008, Elan Fieldgold, who was working on the Mac OS X port of XBMC, left the XBMC project and started a new project called Plex. On July 13, 2008 Plex and CenterStage projects announced that they had teamed up, [...]

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Windows XP SP3 Now Available

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is now available for download from Windows Update.
See the Technet article on installing Windows SP3. Note that they recommend having WinXP SP2 installed before installing SP3.

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Reinstalling the .NET Framework

Having trouble with your .NET framework? I had a difficult time getting Windows Update to install Hotfix KB928366 on my computer. No matter what I did, I couldn’t uninstall or fix the .NET Framework. After a lot of Googling and trying different suggestions, here is what worked for me.
How to re-install the .NET Framework 1.1

Remove [...]

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Network Install at T-12

During WinXP installation, if you try to access a network share at T-12 then you get a “Workstation is not running” error. Starting the workstation service manually with net start workstation reports the service is already running.

The the issue is that microsoft left out some info in the system hive so you need to edit [...]

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WinXP Installation

Slashdot had a topic about the first 10 applications you install on a fresh PC.
Heres my suggestions.
For the paranoid, I’d recommend installing AVG antivirus and ZoneAlarm firewalls from CD, so that you are protected before you even connect to the internet.

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Font Editor

Windows XP and Win2000 SP2 come with a font editor called eudcedit.exe, usually in your Windows\System32 folder. Although your new font may look blocky or pixellated, Windows estimates a better vector representation that can be seen by selecting Show Outline on the View menu.
Use charmap.exe to use your new characters.

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Delete old files

Delete old files from all your Windows temporary folders in one fell swoop with Erasetemp from http://www.webattack.com/get/erasetemp.html
More free deleters at http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdiskclean.html

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Useful Software Tools

CutePDF Printer is a free PDF generator from http://www.acrosoftware.com/
PDF995 from http://www.pdf995.com/ also lets you create PDF files for free. It creates files slightly smaller and easier to read than CutePDF, but you have to install Free Converter too, and it popups ads in your browser when you use it.

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View Mail Source

Using Outlook 2003 you can view the header and source together, if you edit a registry key. This works on mail obtained from Internet mail transports, not Exchange server mailboxes. However, if you access the mailbox using an Internet transport, you’ll see the full source.

Open the registry editor and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Mail
right click on the right [...]

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Minimize Outlook to Tray

If you want to “tray” Outlook you need to create this registry key and set the value of MinToTray to 1.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences]
“MinToTray”=dword:00000001

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