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How To: Add Safe Mode Option To The Boot Windows XP Menu

Tony — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:49:17 +0000

Safe Mode is most commonly used for troubleshooting purposes of Windows operating system including Windows XP and Vista.The traditional way of booting to Safe Mode in Windows XP, is to press the F8 key during the boot process, to display a list of available boot options.The problem with this procedure is finding just the right place to hit the F8 key to avoid the regular boot sequence doesn’t initiating. If you find yourself booting to safe mode often.You may find it helpful to include read more

How To: Uninstall Windows XP From Your Computer Using The Command Prompt

Tony — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:37:15 +0000

One interesting option included in Microsoft Windows XP operating system is the ability to uninstall Windows XP from within the XP itself, if you were able to performed an upgrade from Windows 98, 98SE, or Windows Me.Here are the procedure for uninstalling the Windows XP from your computer using command prompt: It is important that the uninstallation of Windows XP from the computer using command prompt is available only if a successful image of the previous operating system(Windows 98, 98SE, read more

How To: Reinstall Windows XP in Unattended Mode

Tony — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:08:08 +0000

An unattended installation is a hands-free method of installing Microsoft Windows XP operating system, while keeping every installed applications and personal settings on the computer. How can this be done? Unattended installation of Windows XP simple and easy, just follow these steps. Before moving ahead, make sure that CD-Rom is NOT your first boot device. Login to Windows XP and Insert you XP disk in your drive. Go to Command Prompt, and go to the drive (eg:- d:> assuming D is your CD read more

How To: Install Windows XP In Unattended Mode

Tony — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:53:58 +0000

Formatting your system and reinstalling Microsoft Windows XP operating system is a pretty boring and long work. Now how to make it working. You can format your Hard Drive in a matter of minutes but Installation of Windows XP is long and boring, Especially when you have to sit in front of computer as setup is running and a window comes up, asking for the information.Well to overcome this a method called Unattended Installation was provided by Microsoft as in case to get rid of it.You can read more

How To: Set Processor Affinity To An Application(Or Process) In Windows Vista/XP

Tony — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:54:09 +0000

In Windows XP and Windows Vista, applications by default run on all available cores of the processor, if you have a dual or quad core processor, then you can set affinity to an application to control which core of the processor an application can use, in this way you can assign one application or a program to use only one processor while other application can run on other processor.Processor Affinity is the process by which particular tasks on the computer are scheduled and accomplished. A read more

How To: Set Password For The Guest Account In Windows XP

Tony — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:12:19 +0000

Windows XP contains a guest account (turned off by default in Windows XP Pro) that has the rather unique distinction of not having a password. Not only does the account not have a password, you can’t even set one. As you can see, if this account is active, it presents a slight security risk.So, in order to protect your system and ensure that not just anybody can connect to your file or folder shares- even when using Simple File Sharing- you need to assign a password to the Guest account. read more