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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, [...]
February 7th, 2009 | Posted in Software, Windows XP | 2 Comments
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.
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Windows XP | 2 Comments
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 [...]
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in Programming, Windows XP | No Comments
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 [...]
June 25th, 2005 | Posted in Windows XP | No Comments
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.
May 4th, 2004 | Posted in Windows XP | No Comments
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.
January 28th, 2004 | Posted in Windows XP | No Comments
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
January 27th, 2004 | Posted in Windows XP | No Comments
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.
January 8th, 2004 | Posted in Windows XP | No Comments
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 [...]
January 1st, 2004 | Posted in Windows XP | No Comments
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
January 1st, 2004 | Posted in Windows XP | No Comments