On a relatively fresh installation of Windows XP with SP2 on a Compaq Presqrio desktop running an AMD processor, Windows XP SP3 was applied. After an apparently successful installation, upon reboot, at the Windows XP logo, the system quickly flashed a blue screen of death and rebooted. Fortunately, I was able to login to the computer in safe mode to…
Read More »On several different machines, each running Windows, the right-click to create a new text document option is not available. I don’t know if it is a service pack related issue or version of Windows or an application that was installed that caused this annoyance. I am leaning against it being the cause of the operating system as one system is…
Read More »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…
Read More »A recent Microsoft update changed the way I logged into my workstation. Microsoft Windows XP use to boot directly to the desktop, now boots to a logon screen. To get past this behavioral change, I found the following information to work as advertised. Source: Google
Read More »Change CTL-ALT-DEL Background Color Annoyance:All servers in server environment had a gray background at login, except for one. The reason for this difference is that one server had been upgraded from an earlier version of Windows. To change the background to the desired shade of grey, edit the following settings in the registry with regedit. Note:The color codes are RGB,…
Read More »The Hewlett Packard TSGI-IR01 is the OEM version of the USB Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver. The device driver is supplied by Microsoft and included with the Windows MCE, XP, and Vista operating systems. It is because of that, HP did not have to supply their own driver. The device driver does work for the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition…
Read More »To change the fonts or colors for desktop items on the Microsoft Windows XP operating system: Tested and worked for me. (Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140752)
Read More »Use regedit and change the following two keys of MS Shell Dlg 2 and MS Dlg to whatever font you want. Make certain that C:\windows\fonts already contains that font. I have tested and replaced both with “Sugoe UI“. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes] “MS Shell Dlg 2″=”Tahoma” “MS Shell Dlg”=”Microsoft Sans Serif” Source(s)
Read More »Microsoft Windows XP, by design, is not capable of a native software RAID5, however, capable of mirroring drives. However, by modifying three files, Windows XP becomes capable of software RAID5. This has successfully been implemented and verified on a Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE 2005). Installed three 300 GB SATA drives and successfully created RAID5. system32\drivers\dmboot.sys system32\dmconfig.dll system32\dmadmin.exe copy…
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