Removing old update backup files from Windows XP and Windows 7
DaleBefore I release a new Windows XP standard operating system image, I use a utility called “Windows XP Update Remover”. I do this to reduce the number of “$NTuninstall” directories…
Text mode drivers and Sysprep (on Windows XP)
I’m so glad we’ve moved away from needing to use Sysprep on Windows Vista / 7. But since I still support Windows XP and needed to add a Intel AHCI…
Another downside of upgrading a Windows 2000 to Windows XP
Each Microsoft operating system installation allows you to do an “in-place” upgrade. aka, The “Do you wish to upgrade this computer to Windows xyz” prompt when you insert a Microsoft…
Saving space in a VM with MaxPatchCacheSize
I first read about MaxPatchCacheSize, and how to use it to save space in Virtual Machines, over at Jeremy Jameson's blog. From the Microsoft MSDN Library entry for MaxPatchCacheSize: "The…
Windows 2000 and XP SP2 support ends today
Have you moved off them yet? Windows 2000 End-of-Support Solution Center
Windows 2000 had Active Directory folders.
In Windows 2000 you could create a shortcut to an Active Directory resource, and turn it into an Windows Explorer view. One of my (now long gone) predecessors worked out…
What? WindowsUpdate doesn’t work with a non-activated Windows XP?
And I only just realised it now. * Now I’m not going to complain about Microsoft. If you have a valid license key, you should activate it. But I don’t…
How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …”
... to the virtual machine. Check the values provided and try again.” error It sucks as an error message. Would it take too much programming effort to make it more…
So you can’t boot from your CD/DVD drive?
I was watching someone install Windows XP on a system with SATA drives the other day. The PC would power up, look briefly at the CD/DVD drive, and then carry…
There was no TIFF viewer in Windows XP
Which we found out when we were piloting a Windows XP SOE release. It was a serious “show stopper” for the rollout of Windows XP at this customer. We’re talking…