How to Change Name and Company Information After You Install Windows XP

26Jun09

When you install Windows, Setup requests that you enter your name, and optional…
When you install Windows, Setup requests that you enter your name, and optionally, the organization name.
This registration information is displayed under Registered to in the General tab of System when you click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
To change your name and company information [...]

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Windows Wallpaper Rotator V1.0

28Apr09

I really like to find and use new wallpaper designs for my computer. About once a week or so I go out and hunt for new ones that I have not yet seen before. Having a lot of variety in my desktop background helps me keep things fresh. Nobody wants to look at the same [...]

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How to Hide specific Drives ?

28Apr09

This tutorial illustrates how to hide and show your computer drives from Windows XP. You can hide or show as you want both drives in your computer and drives in the computer network. This way can be safe for data in your computer and prevent others from accessing to your drives that may contain important [...]

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How to Manually Create a Virtual Drive in Windows XP

09Apr09

*Click Start and then Run. Now type cmd on the text field. The command prompt will appear. On the command prompt, type subst x: “C:\windows”. 
*The letter “x” represents the drive letter of the virtual drive you wish to create. You can choose any letter as long as it doesn’t already exist on your computer. However, do not use the letters A, [...]

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NTLDR is Missing

23Jan08

NTLDR is Missing.
Related errors:
Below are the full error messages that may be seen when the computer is booting.
NTLDR is Missing
Press any key to restart
Boot: Couldn’t find NTLDR
Please insert another disk

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Error 1310. Error writing to file c:\config.msi\XXXX.rbf

19Jan08

This problem has been occurring when installing office 2007 on a fresh install of Vista 32bit, after looking around many forums the issue seems to lie with Carbonite. Disabling Carbonite and then restarting the install will fix this problem; due to this issue I have now removed Carbonite from my machine. Also after removing Carbonite [...]

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Windows Service Pack 3 [SP3]

02Jan08

Windows XP is maturing. First came Service Pack 1 (SP1), then SP2 and now a few years later it’s time for SP3. Since Vista hit the shelves almost a year ago, XP has been rolling along in the background, quietly taking care of business on the majority of desktops in use today. With the release [...]

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Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows XP

02Jan08

Converting a partition from FAT32 to NTFS can be done by an inbuilt utility in the Windows XP operating system — but it is important to realise that it is a one-way process. You cannot convert back, except possibly by use of Partition Magic 7.01, and that is not always successful. Windows XP has no [...]

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System File Checker

02Jan08

Introduction to using scannow sfc (system file checker) Windows XP has the ability to protect itself from system instability caused by 3rd party software overwriting important system files. This used to be (and still is in fact), a problem with Windows 95 and Windows 98.With the introduction of Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft made a real [...]

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Winlogon.exe

02Jan08

I’m trying to install updates from WindowsUpdate on my Windows XP computer, but I keep encountering a winlogon.exe error. What’s going on?
The full text of the error you’re referring to is “Winlogon.exe. Entry Point Not Found. The procedure entry point AssocIsDangerous could not be found in the dynamic link library SHLWAPI.DLL.” This problem is typically [...]

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