(This was all done in October 2009) PROGRAMS AND FILES REMOVED: Start > Right-Click and choose “Properties” START MENU Enable only the following: Select “Classic Start menu” Click on “Customize” button Display Administrative Tools Display Run Enable dragging and dropping Expand Control Panel Expand Printers Show Small Icons in Start menu TASKBAR (NOTE: These changes […]
Tweaking my HP Compaq Presario Windows XP SP2 OEM Image. Read More »
As of this date (10/22/09) my recommendation is not to install IE8 on XP. I had it installed for over two months after having used v. 7 for about 4 months. IE8 was slow to load, slow to launch tabs, and just slow overall … like a fat hog. Don’t do it to yourself …
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No, not the fake shareaza that was taken over by the RIAA & MPAA’s cronies, but the REAL one on Sourceforge. What’s more, now that google results have been corrupted by who pays the most, whenever one for the past 3 months (today is 10/18/09) executes a search for “Shareaza” and sorts by latest date,
Looks like Shareaza is gone. :( G1 Networks Do Not Connect! Read More »
The following was found on Geekstogo.com Click Start > Run > type in the Run dialogue box type C:WINDOWS$NtUninstallKB940157$spuninstspunist.exe This should uninstall that partitcular update. Also I think it is listed in Add/Remove programs. You may have to select “show updates”. The above process should remove Windows Search 4 NOTE: I tried uninstalling from
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Yesterday I experienced a problem where my 2nd (SLAVE) SATA drive would only show as “unformatted’ in both Windows XP Disk Management and in Easus Partition Manager 4.0 Home. Subsequent googling revealed that a solution that has worked for that problem is to install any service pack for XP. I downloaded and installed XP SP3
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Long story short, the solution to this seems to be upgrading to the latest service pack. Apparently Windows XP (no service packs) can’t recognize certain sizes of SATA drive. Here is an excerpt from a web article, with more information: … Last week, my desktop died, reboot looping and the whole works. tried many things,
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FolderSize 2.4 (Sourceforge 2009.06.25).msi This program installs a service that displays the size of a folder in details view, in windows explorer. I decided to install it before the partitioning software, because I need to make room on my large hard drive and transfer and delete certain files as necessary. Date Published: 2009-10-12 Date Updated:
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10:22 AM Used Easus Partition Manager Home last night. Was unable to employ “Create New Partiton”, so I figured maybe the key was to resize old partion, then do a “Create” on the resulting un-allocated (leftover) space. But, for some strange reason, in both Easus and in Windows “Disk Management” utility, the unallocated space shows,
Easus Partion Manager & The XP Four Partition Limit. Read More »
11:55 AM In the past when I have re-imaged XP computers, the first thing after a clean OEM OS install (including drivers) in my process has always been WINDOWS UPDATE. However, I am going to try something different this time, out of necessity; I am going to install partitioning software next! First, I have to
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Ok. So, I reimaged my computer with the Compaq Recovery Disks. Unfortunately, the discs are very scratched and almost unreadable. Thus, I have decided the first program I will install, after the re-image, and before anything else is is a 3rd party restore application. After some research, I have chosen Acronis True Image 11. I
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