Posts Tagged ‘windows’

Running a pirate version of XP? Prepare to be NAAAAGED

Interesting development this morning on the WGA blog (Windows Genuine Advantage) where one of Microsoft’s senior managers talks about changes they are rolling out to Windows XP Professional, one of the most pirated editions of Windows XP. It seems that there’s a new version of WGA out which will be...

Everything you wanted to know about Windows Recovery Console

photo credit: Br3nda I spent this evening working on a machine belonging to a friend of mine. It’s been bluescreening (BSOD) on Startup and Safe Mode restarts after loading Mup.Sys. Turns out this is a bit of a false reading as Windows proceeds to load and allocate resources after this...

Feel the difference?

Have you noticed that this website now seems quicker than it ever was? Well, the reason is that I’ve moved it to my new host, tubu.net and everything is now flying! I didn’t need to do any market research to find out that the main concern my readers had with...

Windows Home Server finally ships

Good news for the Windows Home Server team, the fruits of their labour has finally shipped. They’ve been working on this product for the last 8 years and it will be interesting to see how the market will react to this new offering. For those of you who are unaware...

System Recovery Tools

LifeHacker has a great collection of Top free Computer System Recovery Tools. The post is actually about the top 10 tools, but there’s a wealth of other links in the comments that follow the post. Here’s what they recommend: SuperDuper! (Mac boot drive maker) Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder (Windows)...

Integrated Windows Authentication – How to set up

We’ve spent this morning struggling with IIS, trying to get Integrated Authentication working. You would think that it’s just a matter of switching IIS Settings and making sure that the calling user has got permission to the folder and files that need to be called. If only life were that...

XP SP2 release imminent?

Mark Wilson believes the XP SP2 will be released later on this week. I’ve been using SP2 since the RC went public, and I’m looking forward to the final update. Never had any major problems, though I understand why Microsoft is saying this needs to be planned. There’s lots of...

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