If you’re on the fence about the impending release of Windows Vista, I recommend trying before you buy. Every Vista DVD includes the ability to install any edition of Vista without a product key. When you install without a product key, you get an automatic 30-day evaluation period.* This probably isn’t news to anyone.
If you are dual booting XP Prof and Vista, you most likely have the annoying “Earlier Version of Windows” in the boot list and have Vista booting as the default. Let’s change that!
To clear the MRU list for Find and Replace, do the following:
By default, XP displays compressed or encrypted files and folders with a unique color. If you are a heavy user of these features, this highlighting can be painful on the eyes. Here is how to disable it.
There are two different ways of booting into Vista — Windows Welcome and Audit Mode. Windows Welcome or OOBE (out of box experience) is the typical pathway and provides the user the customization wizards. Audit Mode, however, will allow the user to skip the Windows Welcome and boot directly onto the desktop as quickly as possible.
To determine which services are associated with SVCHOST (Service Host) processes in Windows, you can use several methods. Here are some approaches: This will list all svchost processes with their associated services. This will list services running under svchost.exe along with their Process IDs. These methods will help you identify which services are running under various svchost.exe processes,… Read More »
Normally in XP Pro, through the Control Panel / User Accounts icon, you are only allowed to create administrators or limited users.
You can add a shortcut to the desktop of your home computer to quickly start Remote Desktop and connect to your office computer. To create a shortcut icon to start Remote Desktop.
The relationship between Windows Media Player 8 and the MP3 audio format is widely misunderstood. Basically, WMP8 will be able to playback MP3 files, but encoding (or “ripping” CD audio into MP3 format will require an MP3 plug-in. So during the Windows XP beta, Microsoft is supplying a sample MP3 plug-in for testing purposes, but it”s limited to… Read More »
To dramatically expand the list of applications you can remove from Windows XP after installation, navigate to C:\WINDOWS\inf (substituting the correct drive letter for your version of Windows) and open the sysoc.inf file. Under Windows XP Professional Edition RC1, this file will resemble the following by default: