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Friday, May 09, 2008 8:07 PM

Windows XP SP3 breaks Windows Update

If you install XP SP3 on a clean SP2 box Windows Update will no longer work. Unless you have the newer Windows Update Agent 3.0 your stuck in a hole There is no way to get it via AU or WU or MU only a manual installation can resolve the issue 1. Download...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005 12:45 PM

Microsoft Antispyware & Security Essentials

If your not using an antispyware product then try the MS one. Why? Well its free, it works pretty well, it's better than not having any at all Visit the Security Essentials site to check you have the latest updates and information in order to protect...
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:25 AM

Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit

Microsoft have released a public beta of the shared access toolkit . While it was designed for machines that have public access, it is a handy tool for home users. Windows XP Home lacks the ability to edit the local policy, this tool lets you get at a...
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Saturday, December 25, 2004 9:03 PM

Microsoft to ship Cutdown Windows in Europe

A European court ruled this week that Microsoft must release a new version of Windows without Media Player and new server protocols, even though the company's formal appeal has yet to be heard. It will be ready to ship by February.
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Friday, December 10, 2004 8:01 PM

Adding MCE 2005 to a Domain

I have found it is possible to do this. I have decided not to publish how, you can work it out for yourselves. I alluded to it in an earlier blog post, lets just say I solved my problem
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Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:07 PM

IE Updates for XP only

microsoft has announced that they won't be integrating the security fixes/upgrades from XP SP2 into any of their older OS's. Of course they will still update sopported OS's but they are going to miss out on the extra security features. Seems like Mozilla...
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Friday, August 27, 2004 12:30 AM

Prescott and XP SP2 Update

It seems there are plenty of people out there running Prescott processors without the latest BIOS code. Seems that a number of vendors were putting out boards with pre production microcode versions. And XP needs to see version 8 or later So go get the...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:09 PM

First Post XP SP2 Hotfix

Programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect If your using loopbacks and have issues after installing XP SP2, you might like to read this KB Article in Windows XP Service Pack 2
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Monday, August 23, 2004 9:32 PM

XP SP2 and Prescott, not happy

I am getting growing amounts of data that suggests there are issues with XP SP2 and Prescott CPU's on some chipsets. So far the list of affected motherboards reported by end users Albatron PX865 PE Pro Shuttle SB61G2 Jetway i875P Soyo P4I865P Aopen AX4SG...
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:52 AM

How To Block XP SP2 being installed via Automatic Updates

microsoft have released details and a tool to allow you to stop SP2 from being installed by the Windows Automatic Updates service.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:58 PM

XP SP2 is available on the Technet Public Website

microsoft has made a public download available from this site
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Friday, July 09, 2004 11:59 AM

New XP KB Article

A semi-transparent window may flicker when you play a DVD movie on a Windows XP-based computer KB840621
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Friday, July 09, 2004 10:47 AM

Windows XP SP2 RC2 Technical Preview

If you want to try out XP SP2, MS is offering it from this site Worried about putting beta software on my machine? This release is quite stable. Works fine on all my PC's and laptops. You get the added bonus of security fixes that is not available to...
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Friday, July 09, 2004 10:43 AM

XP SP2 Antivirus Integration

XP SP2 has a security console that detects whether AV and Firewall are turned on. So far it can recognise the following AV products. Ahnlab (will detect presence only) Etrust Kaspersky McAfee Norton (will detect presence only) Panda Sophos Trend Micro...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:32 AM

New XP KB articles

829643 Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 cannot use the Automatic Detect Settings feature in a Windows XP-based computer to find a WPAD server 833355 You receive a protection fault error message when you try to use the DrvGetStandardVariable function...
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Monday, June 28, 2004 2:50 PM

XP SP2

According to Mike Howard XP SP2 is in the home stretch. Perhaps we will see it in July
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