I wrote about how to achieve this way back in 2007! It’s one of the more popular things I’ve written about and I still refer back to it pretty often. The steps were for Windows XP and mostly worked for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. That said there are more options available now
Category: Windows XP
0x0000007b Stop Error When Installing Windows XP
Yeah you read that right – Windows XP. We’ve been installing some new PCs for a client recently and we needed to install Windows XP (the reasoning behind this is best saved for a separate discussion). So we inserted the Windows XP installation CD, booted from the disk and waiting while Windows setup loaded. The
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Screensaver does start with a wireless mouse plugged in
Very strange one today I took a call a few days ago from a client who “wasn’t asked for her password anymore when she’d been away from her desk” My initial thought was that her screensaver had been disabled or the password option had been turned off I logged in and everything was as I’d
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Reset Offline File Cache
About a year ago we did a fileserver migration as the hardware is about to die on the existing server Everything went well and we got the data across with shares and permissions as they were previously However, we were told after the event that several users used the offline files feature in XP for
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Activate Remote Desktop Remotely
Just a small nugget as i have used this a couple of times but always forget which registry key it is! If you have a pc your trying to Remote Desktop into but it isn’t enabled, use the remote editing features of regedit to change the following HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\fDenyTSConnections Change it from 1 to 0 and
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Create Overlay Failed Error in WinDVD
Just a small tip to pass on I had a customer who couldn’t play DVD’s on his laptop using WinDVD The error was “Create Overlay Failed” The program suggests lowering the screen resolution I had a look on the Intervideo support pages and found this Basically there is a list of three things to try but
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Rthdcpl.exe – Illegal System DLL Relocation
This has been all over the newsgroups but since this is something i came across today i’ll just post about (also in case I need to remember!) Had a customer who called to say he’d done a windows update and after rebooted got the following message Rthdcpl.exe – Illegal System DLL Relocation The system DLL
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Vista vs Mac?
I usually take articles on PC vs Mac (Linux/Unix/etc) with a pinch of salt. You can usually tell after a few minutes that the author has already decided the winner before conducting the test. I came across this article on Znet that i think (just my humble opinion) is not a fair test The article
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Deploy Local Group Policy Remotely
We have a client who has 20+ remote sites. Each site comprises of a single PC (Windows XP Pro), an ADSL router and firewall. They wanted to lock the PCs down through group policy but since the PCs aren’t part of the domain didn’t want to send an engineer to each site to setup the local
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The Connected Home
When i first moved into my house i had a romantic view of my “connected home” I had all sorts of plans and ideas of how my 21st century home would work. I wanted to have a PC in the living room that would be connected to the television and display pictures, videos and music