Windows XP
Vista Security exploit - without the hype
There’s been some wild and panicky stuff in some of the Tech press lately about a potential exploit that could bypass Vista’s security model. It all sounds pretty drastic but please bear in mind that most reports have been pretty sensationalist about it.
A ZDNet blog post contains a bit more ‘measured’ information about it along [...]
Microsoft officially ends sales of XP
Microsoft is proceeding with plans to stop selling the Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer as from June 30th.
Once major manufacturers such as Dell and HP have cleared their stocks of machines loaded with XP, then new machines will only be issued with Vista, and anyone wishing to revert to XP will [...]
Microsoft Releases Windows Search 4
Microsoft has released its Windows Search 4 to the web, updating its Vista, XP, Server 2003 and Windows Home Server offerings.
Microsoft said that this release followed an earlier preview that was downloaded some 300,000 times and has resulted in a lot of feedback, and as a result, a number of quality improvements.
One improved area is [...]
Microsoft Further Extends Windows XP Deadline for Low-Cost PCs to 2010
Microsoft Corp. announced that following the success of Windows on netbooks, the Windows offering is being extended to include nettop devices. Netbooks are commonly referred to as ultralow-cost PCs (ULCPCs) and were originally intended for students and other first-time PC customers in emerging markets. Nettop refers to desktops that are ultralow-cost.
In April, Microsoft announced the [...]
Developers Favour XP Over Vista
Software developers are still writing applications for Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Linux in preference to Windows Vista more than 16 months after its worldwide release.
A survey by Evans Data questioned 380 US software developers and found that just eight percent are developing applications for Vista.
Almost half the respondents are focusing development efforts on Windows [...]
Windows XP SP3 Crashes AMD Machines
The long-awaited and much-delayed update to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, is giving owners of machines with AMD hardware headaches aplenty it seems.
The problems, which first arose just one day after the push, have been causing lots of noise on Microsoft support sites and angry user blogs.
One user reported, “I just installed Windows XP SP3 [...]
Microsoft Continues With XP and Vista Updates
Microsoft will resume two major Windows updates it had stalled due to a conflict it caused with one of its lesser-known software products.
A week ago, Microsoft delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a problem that could lead to data loss when running the XP update in conjunction with its Microsoft [...]
Give Windows XP a Fresh New Look
Microsoft Windows XP is without a doubt a great operating system and I can honestly see it being around for quite some time to come. However, the default themes that come with Windows XP look very much out dated and in same ways very boring and unpleasant to look at. After all, Windows [...]
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Delayed
On Monday, we reported that Microsoft would be releasing Windows XP Service Pack 3 on Monday night, early Tuesday morning. We just received word that Microsoft yesterday said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch.
The software maker said there is a “compatibility issue” between [...]
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released Today
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be made available for download from Microsoft’s web site today and will be pushed out to XP users via the Windows Automatic Update in the coming weeks/months. The update includes all patches and fixes released since SP2 in 2004, but does not include Internet Explorer 7.
The update [...]
Microsoft Releases Windows XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft yesterday released the final Windows XP Service Pack to computer builders and volume licensing customers.
“Today we are happy to announce that Windows XP Service Pack 3 has released to manufacturing (RTM),” wrote Chris Keroack, the service pack’s release manager, in a message posted to a TechNet support forum. “Windows XP SP3 bits are now [...]
Windows XP SP3 Coming This Month?
The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be available by the end of April, according to a leaked Microsoft schedule.
The alleged schedule for the release of XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) — obtained from Neowin — shows that manufacturers and volume licence customers will get their hands on the upgrade on 21 [...]
Skipping the “Use the Web service to find the correct program” Dialog
If you’ve ever clicked on a file with an unknown extension before, you would have seen a dialog box asking if you would like to “Use the web service to find the correct program“. Now, I don’t know about you, but personally I find this really annoying! If you’re unsure which one I’m talking about, [...]
How to Disable Data Execution Prevention (DEP) Completely
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies that perform additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. In Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, DEP is enforced by hardware and by software.
The primary benefit of DEP [...]
Speed Up Windows XP using MSCONFIG
You may or may not know this, but as you install more programs and applications on your computer, some of them automatically place themselves into your computers startup process. MSCONFIG can help you remove these unwanted programs from the startup process and in turn, your computer should start up quicker and generally run alot better [...]
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