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A Not-so-Stupid Nerd Trick in Windows XP Pro
Blog First log-on as the intended victim, uhh make that User and open Regedit.exe and change HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” value to an executable BATCH file. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion...
[August 14, 2009, 15:59]
Time to get a life, Windows eats all my free time
Blog Even with its generic NT style drivers, its extremely fast when compared to the full-tilt GUI version of Windows XP Pro SP2. It uses no system specific drivers, just standard NT interface drivers. I've been spending a lot of what should be my free...
[March 30, 2008, 11:40]
Ya need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah buddy. I got ya servicepack3 right here!
Blog Something I spotted back in Windows NT 4.0 days. NT 4.0 SP6a was a notable exception. I just finished installing a volume license of Windows XP Pro with slipstreamed Service Pack 2 on it onto a computer for which I only had to supply a Video driver.
[June 16, 2008, 6:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition is here. Ironically, NT took a lot of the ideas of VMS (the VAX operating system) in the first place. One big server in the corner and everyone can run Windows on cheap little networked pooters.
[June 20, 1998, 7:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Blokey claims that the next generation of IP, IPv6, couldn't run on Windows NT 5.0. What's more, not only can IPv6 run perfectly well on NT 4.0 and NT 5.0 beta 2 but MS has published the source code on its research Web site.
[August 1, 1998, 8:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog It turns out that this is the day that NT 4.0 Workstation and Server are both going to production - the thing's finished! Microsoft has invited myself and Andrew Watts (PC Direct) to a lunch meeting to talk about NT version 4.0.
[August 2, 1996, 18:34]
Windows Operating Systems = Bloatware
Blog There already is a side-by-side mechanism setup for the DLL hell of previous Windows NT versions. Windows XP though would be a better choice, and Win XP Embedded even better. I've been trying out CTP 2011 “Quebec” from Microsoft, its basically...
[October 19, 2009, 5:35]
GNU Windows 7?
Blog Made Unix look slow in comparison to Windows NT 4.0. I found something in Windows 7 that seems to have been around awhile, Some years ago I received in the mail a CD from Microsoft that purported to be Unix services for Windows version 1.
[April 9, 2009, 11:10]
Broken Windows Part 2
Blog Yes the Workstation 3.51 and the 4.0 NT stuff did it too. FireFox3, Adobe Reader 9 and a few other applications on the system, Most of the time was spent downloading and installing post-SP3 Windows Updates for XP Pro and SP1 for Office 2007 Pro.
[March 23, 2009, 7:51]
Intel's Atom burns Microsoft, brings back memories
Blog For instance, as to plans for Windows NT, Ballmer wrote Jon Lazarus in April 1992: the design preview has not leaked to the press are you surprised do you wish it would if so when” Cue the curious case of Windows 7.
[March 10, 2008, 16:56]
When isn't a File Write Permission? When its SP3?
Blog There has been no attempt, at any time, to join a NT or Active Directory domain performed on the computer OS image load. I've been working a lot lately on a project that as part of its functionality writes over or deletes files in a sub-folder in...
[October 13, 2008, 10:03]
Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
Blog Other ignored patches related mostly to security patches appropriate for NT domain membership or for multiple language options I'll never need. I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week.
[September 14, 2009, 9:03]
Of Microsoft, china pigs and hungry bears
Blog Even discounting hindsight, that's a lot harder to answer than the same question ten years ago: As Vista has proven, XP is good enough: that wasn't the case for Windows 95 or NT. Here's a question worth asking.
[August 28, 2007, 16:51]
XP Nerd Trick 2
Blog In HKLM\Software\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\Shell replace Explorer.exe with the BATCH file as described in Not-so-Stupid Nerd Trick, a previous blog. DANGEROUS TECHNIQUE DESCRIBED BELOW. THIS WILL MODIFY YOUR DESKTOP OR LAPTOP COMPUTER TO...
[September 7, 2009, 17:29]
My love hate relationship with Toshiba!
Blog The cursed machine just freezes up - something that I have not experienced since the bad old days of Windows NT. Toshiba were in my good books this week for hosting an interesting launch event for their new ultra-portable PC which was based around...
[June 22, 2007, 17:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Meanwhile, navies are getting the hang of the stealth warship -- the Swedes have their Windows--NT powered Visby corvette (no jokes about the shipyard name, Kockums, please), while the US Navy is hard at work building the DD (X) destroyer.
[June 18, 2004, 18:45]
Can I have fries with that? (Consumer rights)
Blog It's the same with Windows NT is Linux based.wait a minute .you mean these companies used FREE open source for there products? Licence policies of Tech company's have been for a long time both complicated and 'Dick Turpin-esque', people just click...
[December 4, 2009, 8:44]
Novell focuses future strategy around endangered mongoose
Blog Interestingly, the real-life Fossa has also suffered from having its habitat destroyed - slashed and burned - something that Novell can sympathise with after seeing Microsoft slowly eat away its Netware and directory NDS businesses following the...
[March 17, 2008, 16:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The evening's launch is Internet Explorer 4.0, which comes bundled with previews of NT 5.0 and Windows 98. Picture the scene: Camden Town, midnight, Saturday. A rather merry computer journalist traipses to the cashpoint to refuel for the rest of...
[October 4, 1997, 9:00]
Tigers to spring on 'anti-competitive' Microsoft?
Blog If the case is upheld, Microsoft could be given a maximum fine of NT$25 million, said Chou. The China Post reported on Saturday that a consumer group in Taiwan had filed a complaint with the Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission (TFTC) against Microsoft...
[August 19, 2008, 17:43]
