IE8 on Windows XP does not support SNI
, or “you desktop IT people have broken something”. Just before Windows XP gets to take a well earned retirement on “the farm”, it popped Read More …
Category: WinXP
Performance: Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
With my last post, I mentioned that there are 3 things you should do with SSD drives on Windows XP. I left 4 other things Read More …
Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
Solid State Drives, SSDs, are now becoming cheap enough that our corporate customers are ordering them with their new PCs. The first Windows operating system Read More …
Active Directory User account being locked repeatedly
(I don’t know the answer to this yet, so this is just an dump of what I know.) Customer reports that they’re Active Directory User Read More …
Why Internet Explorer 8 crashes on Windows XP and …
not Vista or Windows 7. The customer reported that our version of Internet Explorer 8 would crash when we visited their website. We support IE8 Read More …
The joys of DLL hooks and eTrust Antivirus.
This is a guest post by Allan, a bloke I work with. Allan asked my opinion of what was wrong, and I suggested a DNS Read More …
Shell32 returns Missing Entry OCInstall
Which is strange as I was applying Internet Explorer 8 security patch MS11-081, on Windows XP. Strange because the OCInstall function was first introduced with Read More …
I missed the Windows XP release birthday
I’ve been working on Windows XP for a long time. I found an old blog post with the Windows XP release dates in it: 30/06/2000 Read More …
WSUS DownloadFileInteral failed when trying to get wuredir.cab
On a newly imaged Windows XP client, I decided to activate “Automatic Updates” via a newly installed WSUS 3.0SP2 server. But I was seeing this Read More …
Removing old update backup files from Windows XP and Windows 7
Before I release a new Windows XP standard operating system image, I use a utility called “Windows XP Update Remover”. I do this to reduce Read More …