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IE8 on Windows XP does not support SNI

Posted onFebruary 17, 2015

, 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 …

CategoriesSecurity, Windows, WinXPTagsIE8, ssl

Performance: Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.

Posted onNovember 5, 2012October 21, 2020

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 …

CategoriesHardware, Windows, WinXP

Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.

Posted onOctober 28, 2012November 7, 2012

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 …

CategoriesWindows, WinXP

Active Directory User account being locked repeatedly

Posted onSeptember 3, 2012October 21, 2020

(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 …

CategoriesSecurity, Windows, WinXP

Why Internet Explorer 8 crashes on Windows XP and …

Posted onAugust 30, 2012March 25, 2020

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 …

CategoriesIt's A Bug, WinXP

The joys of DLL hooks and eTrust Antivirus.

Posted onJuly 13, 2012January 1, 2017

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 …

CategoriesExcel, It's A Bug, WinXP

Shell32 returns Missing Entry OCInstall

Posted onJuly 11, 2012

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 …

CategoriesIt's A Bug, Windows, WinXP

I missed the Windows XP release birthday

Posted onMay 10, 2012October 21, 2020

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 …

CategoriesWindows, WinXP

WSUS DownloadFileInteral failed when trying to get wuredir.cab

Posted onJanuary 4, 2012January 4, 2012

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 …

CategoriesIt's A Bug, WinXP, WSUSTagsWSUS

Removing old update backup files from Windows XP and Windows 7

Posted onNovember 2, 2011December 23, 2015

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 …

CategoriesUtilities, Windows 7, WinXP

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