There are too many articles that claim that after installing Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Internet Explorer 7 may not be uninstalled. This however is not entirely accurate. It is not possible to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 after applying SP3 to an installation that already has Internet Explorer 7 installed. However, it is possible to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 if it is installed after the SP3 update....
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An IBM NetVista workstation running Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2 consistantly has an error at system-start. The service is i8042prt and the Event ID is 7026 with the error “The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: i8042prt”. I found a reference to this error from a user with a HP Proliant ML150 G2 server....
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Diskeeper 2008 may report the \$Extend\$UsnJrnl [Excluded] file size incorrectly. I have addressed this anomoly with the same solution that is applicable to Diskeeper 2007 in this article. The process outlined in this article, has been tested and verified to work....
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Microsoft Outlook 2003 forces a default view of which includes AutoPreview, GroupBy Settings, and Reading panes. These settings may be changed at the current view; however, there is no documentation or choice when it comes to changing these settings globally. The settings change for a current view, may not be so bad, if only a few folders existed, however, with time years of folders exist requiring the need for a global view change....
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Today, I installed Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 on a test box. It is released as WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe (MD5: BB25707C919DD835A9D9706B5725AF58) and became available for download yesterday, May 6, 2008. The installation was uneventful and took around 20 minutes on a Pentium 4 2+ Ghz system. The service pack is available from Microsoft here. Immediately after applying SP3, I checked for any updates, there are two, Windows internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and Windows Media Player 11. Neither of which were previously installed....
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I have grown tired of visiting my favorite websites only to be inundated with ads and images that take up so much real estate. I have found that Firefox has a great plugin or extension called Adblock Plus. I have tried editing the hosts file to point the junk and ad sites to 127.0.0.1, but the site still left a placeholder for the ad, with Adblock Plus, the website is clean and does not look distorted....
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