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You can still buy Windows XP!
Amazon is still offering Windows XP Home, Pro, and Upgrade.
The Upgrade edition upgrades your legacy (98/ME, possibly 95?) to XP Home + SP2. There’s no upgrade edition to make the jump up to Pro, you have to buy it outright.
Here are the relevant links..
Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Home Upgrade
Originally posted 2009-03-26 09:00:42.
My window got lost! Help!
Posted by Harv in Quick Tips, Troubleshooting, Windows on December 30, 2009
Ever “lost” an application or window someplace off-screen?
See it in the task bar? Right click it and select “Move”. Tap any arrow key. This “locks” your mouse cursor to the windows’ top draggy bar thing. Move your mouse cursor back onto the screen somewhere, the window will be attached. Left click once to ‘detach’ the window from your cursor. That’s it!
Alternatively, if you don’t have a mouse plugged in, instead of tapping an arrow key and moving the mouse, press and hold an arrow key to (slowly) move the window in that direction. This requires an idea as to which side/sides of the screen the window has dissapeared off of. For example, if it’s way off to the left somewhere, tap and hold the right arrow to ‘drag’ the window back.
Originally posted 2009-03-20 13:21:59.
The remote computer requires Network Level Authentication, which your computer does not support.
Posted by Harv in Networking, Quick Tips, Troubleshooting, Windows, XP on December 30, 2009
Update: I have created a registry file which makes these changes for you. Please see the disclaimer below. Download the file here. Simply run it to merge the registry changes, and reboot for the changes to take effect.
If you get this message, it’s because you’re trying to connect to a computer which uses a newer version of the remote desktop protocol, which supports a higher level of encryption. The connection will not go through because you are using an older version.
If you’re using Windows XP, make sure you are up to date with windows update. You will need to be using service pack 3 for these instructions to work. Also make sure there are no updates for the remote desktop client listed in windows update.
Originally posted 2009-06-30 23:34:14.
0×0000007b – the dreaded blue screen of death.
Posted by Harv in Troubleshooting, Windows, XP on December 30, 2009
While installing Windows XP on a computer the other day, I ran into a rather strange problem.
I got a blue screen of death and my STOP code was 0×0000007b. The solution? I turned AHCI off in my BIOS, and reverted it back into IDE mode.
Originally posted 2009-05-24 19:33:34.
Mac Book (Pro) + Boot Camp + Windows XP = Drivers..?
Posted by Harv in Mac, Troubleshooting, Windows on December 10, 2009
Just ran into a situation where I have a MacBook Pro. Client wants me to dual-boot it with Windows XP. So I went out and grabbed a retail copy of XP for him. XP finishes installing.. boots and.. of course, I forgot to ask him for the OS X 10.6 installer DVD. Oops, now I’m stuck without the drivers.
I have an article that addresses that problem but for some reason, the process I describe in that article (Finding Drivers for Unknown Devices) doesn’t work too well on a Mac.
After doing some research I came across someone on a Mac forum who described a process that I think will work beautifully and I am now running through myself.
To do this you’ll need at the very least a disk image of the OS. I got ahold of a .dmg of 10.6. Note as a disclaimer, this is a brand new machine and shipped with 10.6.2, nothing illegal is going on here. Please do not download images of software you, or whomever you represent, doesn’t own!
- Install and update OS X.
- Add a FAT32 partition (using Disk Utility), it only needs to be as big as the uncompressed image file. I made it 10GB just to be safe – also I’m going to delete it later, so too big is just fine.
- Once the partition is formatted, go to the “restore” option. Under source, select your OS X disk image (.dmg). In Destination, drag the formatted partition over. Make sure your destination is correct, you don’t want to make a mistake here. Let it do its thing, it will take at least a few minutes. The OS X disk image will be written to your FAT32 partition which is readable by Windows. See where we’re going now?
- Run the basecamp assistant. It will want you to format the windows partition, yadda ya.
- Do the XP install. Install it to the basecamp partition. Hopefully this is the last partition you see – if not consider going back to Disk Utility and rearranging. I’m not sure space can be reallocated to the OS X partition if its not contiguous. Or maybe I have no idea what I’m talking about.
- XP install finishes. XP will boot. Voila! Go to My Computer.. you should see the DVD mounted as a regular joe disk. You know what to do, right?
- Once the drivers are installed, you can start patching. Don’t forget to install an anti-virus application! (Computer is for non-commercial home-use only? I suggest Avast Home (Free!))
- Go back to OS X. Fire up Disk Image. Delete the now unecessary 10GB partition to reclaim the space back to Macintosh HD. At this point you can probably also delete the disk image itself unless you have dome dual-layer DVD’s kicking around and wish to keep a backup copy handy.
Until next time..
* Update: If XP boots and you don’t see your OS X Install DVD partition, after you get over the shock, go into disk management (control panel, administrative tools, computer management) and make sure you can at least see the partition. It will be the only 10GB one, or whichever size you chose. You won’t be able to assign a drive letter to it, right? Okay, go back to OS X. Fire up disk utility. Verify the format of the partition is in fact FAT32 and not something else like, say, OS X Extended (Journaled). If it is, reformat it to FAT, go through the process of restoring the disk image to the partition, and try again.
Not that, you know, I did that or anything.
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