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- Businesses can still buy new Dell and HP computers with Windows XP Pro
- Dell and HP are selling select, business computers loaded with Windows XP Professional. Customers can have Windows XP preinstalled and get a DVD to upgrade to Vista when they are ready. by Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Improve Windows XP Pro's NTFS performance by disabling the Accessed timestamp
- The New Technology File System NTFS is essentially a huge database that keeps track of all the files on your Windows XP Pro hard disk. When you create a file, or edit and then resave that file, the NTFS creates an entry and records the date in the Created or...
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Add Microsoft Chat to your Windows XP Pro technical support toolbox
- Windows XP Pro comes with a LAN-based messaging program called Microsoft Chat, which is a handy addition to your technical support toolbox. Microsoft Chat provides you with a real-time messaging program that you can use to help remotely troubleshoot problems on a small business network. By default,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Increase your Command Prompt scrolling capability in Windows XP Pro with the List command
- The More command on the Command Prompt in Windows XP Pro (go to Biglogfile.txt | More) allows you to view a very long text file one screen at a time. With the More command, it's easy to overshoot the information you need due to the overwhelming amount of data you...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Take advantage of Windows XP Pro's multiple monitor support for Remote Desktop Connection
- If you manage Windows XP Pro systems via Remote Desktop Connection RDC with multiple monitors, you'll want to get the newest version of RDC (Terminal Services Client 6.0) because of its invaluable support for multiple monitors. After you download RDC (Terminal Services Client 6.0), you can use...
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Copy and paste from Windows XP Pro's command prompt straight to the Clipboard
- If you need to copy output from a command and paste it into a Windows program, such as Notepad, while working at the command prompt, chances are you'll try to use the Mark and Copy commands on the command prompt's Edit menu. A better way to get information from a...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- How do I... Secure Microsoft Windows XP Professional?
- This blog post is also available as a TechRepublic gallery and a TechRepublic download.Even though Microsoft Windows Vista has been out for a while and is available from just about anywhere, most organizations -- at least for the time being -- are sticking with the tried and true Windows XP.By...
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Can you increase the speed of Windows XP?
- If you've been working with Windows XP Professional for some time and you've noticed a decline in system performance from when you first started using XP, you may be at a loss to explain the problem. As a Windows power user, you most likely keep an eye on your system's...
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
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- 10 services to turn off in MS Windows XP
- As I pointed out on 19 October, in point number four of the article 10 security tips for all general-purposes OSes, an important step in the process of securing your system is to shut down unnecessary services. As long as Microsoft Windows has been a network capable operating system,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Change the product key on Windows XP
- For most Microsoft Windows XP installs, you'll never need to worry about the validity of the product key assigned to your copy of the OS. However, software does tend to get installed without authorization, even in the most carefully managed shops, and so from time to time you may need...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Use Microsoft Media Player for your Windows XP apps
- Windows XP’s original multimedia player, Microsoft Media Player 5.1, still remains on the operating system despite various updates (Windows Media Player 11 is the most current version of Microsoft’s multimedia player). While Microsoft Media Player is pretty basic by today's standards, it still serves a purpose. ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Windows Animated Cursor Risk to all Windows, including Vista
- Microsoft has confirmed the threat. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935423.mspxThere are already reports of this zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited.The risk, of course, is that an attacker could run arbitrary code on the vulnerable system, making this an extremely dangerous threat. Microsoft reports that these platforms are specifically affected:Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Add a Create New Folder icon to the Windows XP Quick Launch toolbar
- Creating new folders to store files is a basic Windows XP task, but Windows Explorer does not have a button for easy creation of new folders. You can create your own shortcut by adding a Create New Folder button to the Quick Launch toolbar. Follow these steps: ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Prevent a shutdown of a Windows XP system
- By default, at three o'clock every morning Windows XP's Automatic Updates tool contacts the Windows Update site and automatically downloads and installs updates for your system. However, that cannot happen if other people who use the computer shut it down at the end of the day. Fortunately, you can prevent...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Create a custom Control Panel in Windows XP
- To simplify access to the tools in Windows XP's Control Panel, Microsoft created the Category View, in which the Control Panel's tools are organized into categories. If you're an old-school Windows user, you can still switch back to the Classic View, in which all of the Control Panel's tools are...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Redirect the Command Prompt to a folder of your choosing in Windows XP
- As you probably know, when you open a Command Prompt, from the Start menu or by typing CMD in the Run dialog box, the Command Prompt window will always open in the C:Documents and Settings{yourname} folder. (Where {yourname} is the name of your user account.) The reason...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Re-enable icon transparency on your desktop in Windows XP
- Have you ever changed your desktop theme or just your desktop background and discovered that the text for your desktop icons is no longer transparent? Instead you now have a colored background box behind the text. If you have experienced this situation, chances are that you searched high and low...
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Disable Windows Messenger on a Windows XP machine
- If you're using MSN Messenger as your chat and videoconferencing tool, you may never use Windows Messenger anymore and have removed it from the startup group to keep it out of your way. However, you may have seen it pop up on occasion and had to struggle with closing it...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and change its OS business
- Microsoft is nothing if not responsive to its customers. In fact, it's hyper-responsive. That's why we've ended up with feature-bloat in both Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office as the company has tried to please everyone by including everything-but-the-kitchen-sink in its software. And that's why Microsoft will ultimately...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Does your help desk need to stock up on Windows XP licenses?
- Nobody has hired skywriters yet, but Microsoft intends to pull Windows XP from retail channels this June. We're not using Vista right now, so I'm considering laying in some spare XP licenses. Should you stock up, too? If your office is anything like mine, you've decided to...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
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