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Virtually Psycho Mouse
Blog Due to the insistence of the IT department and corporate policy, I moved my VMWare Workstation installation formerly on Windows XP Pro SP3 to the VIsaster SP1 computer to continue an ongoing project. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to figure...
[January 12, 2009, 7:06]
Service Pack 3 OR Surprise Package 3?
Blog In an effort to avoid some of those issues I downloaded the entire ISO and installed that on my last personal Windows XP Pro computer. You've probably already read some of the interesting issues brought about by installing SP3 on your up-to-date XP...
[June 7, 2008, 16:03]
Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
Blog I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. The first partition is NTFS for Windows XP Pro at 90GB. Total install time for Windows XP Pro SP3+ selected applications is 2 hours and 7 minutes.
[September 14, 2009, 9:03]
Windows 7 Needs Liposuction
Blog Comment Now if I go in and strip out or at least shutdown all the extra crap loaded into the operating system that isn't relevant to our application and our service model I will be able to speed up Windows 7 when its released like I did with XP Pro.
[September 15, 2009, 13:18]
When isn't a File Write Permission? When its SP3?
Blog 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 the Program Files folder in Windows XP Pro. The OS image starts out as a ghost image, that was a SP3 slipstreamed volume...
[October 13, 2008, 10:03]
Finally my last words on XP SP3, (yeah right, you hope so!)
Blog First test to be sure that your Windows XP Pro image has all the things you want in them and that they worked like you needed them to. We slip-streamed SP2 onto a volume licensed SP1 install CDROM image of Windows XP Pro.
[June 18, 2008, 19:43]
Spoke too soon about XP SP3?
Blog Comment Incidentally, I only installed XP Pro SP2 on 23rd December as a downgrade from Vista Home Premium. Incidentally, on a subjective basis, I did think I experienced some improvement in the performance and stability of my other computer on which XP Pro...
[February 21, 2008, 23:52]
Broken Windows Part 4
Blog Using the exact same hardware and booting up into Windows XP Pro SP3 on another partition (on the same drive with Windows 7 in a separate partition) with VMWare 6.5, the networking does work. What is really maddening is that I can use ping from...
[April 1, 2009, 9:58]
Ya need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah buddy. I got ya servicepack3 right here!
Blog 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. In other words, we're talking a system that has absolutely nothing installed on it...
[June 16, 2008, 6:34]
The third strike finally landed. Debbie got hit.
Blog My daughter's Windows XP Pro system has a dead hard drive but that was only a matter of time, it has a Hitachi DeathStar PATA drive in it and and it was one I resurrected from the trash at work. My home office XP Pro development workstation is ok.
[July 1, 2008, 17:16]
Broken Windows Part 2
Blog 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. Gigabytes was enough space for a Windows XP Pro install.
[March 23, 2009, 7:51]
Biggest Threat to an OS is Administrative Privileges
Talkback You can't operate Windows XP Pro even with SP3 on it without having Admin level access to an awful lot of the system. They need to offer a FREE special configuration of IE8 or 9 that operates totally isolated in its own VM and operable on XP Pro...
[November 17, 2008, 7:35]
Virtual Mania Part 2
Blog One is Windows XP Pro SP3. At work I found it extremely useful though I was disappointed with the VMWare Workstation performance in Vista, in Windows XP Pro it definitely shines. I put the VMWare back on the XP Pro system with 2 monitors where it...
[January 26, 2009, 7:55]
Real World OS Compatability Problems
Blog Actually Windows XP Pro SP3 would have sufficed. The new server would be replacing a previous 1U server that had been running Windows XP for nearly 6 years when it finally cratered. The system got “downgraded” to Server 2003 (XP Pro-like) and...
[October 5, 2009, 9:49]
XP SP3 is Sick Puppy 3, Stupid Patchwork 3, Stupendous Pain-in-the-A__ 3
Blog Worker droid status in the Zombie armies of the Internet is the ultimate fate of all of the 500 to 600 desktop Windows XP computers we use in the oilfield rental fleet. It should not require all of the effort I and others in the company have had to...
[June 21, 2008, 13:54]
To Err, Is Human
Blog Comment I build and design embedded systems for our sold and rented product lines out of Windows XP Embedded and Linux. My investigation of VMs was a touchstone I used to compare XP Pro SP3 with Vista Business Edition SP1.
[January 5, 2009, 8:14]
Windows 7 RC Cracker Jack Surprise.
Blog It installed fine, then it was time to install Windows XP Pro SP3 in the VM. Un-paused the installation of Windows XP Pro SP3. I've been building/debugging a special Windows XP Embedded image that depends on a bunch of code and requires a lot of...
[June 2, 2009, 1:17]
Windows 7 Needs Liposuction
Blog For those situations where I HAVE to run Windows, I'll run XP Pro in a VM hosted on Ubuntu. Years ago I did tests comparing an application suite software our company wrote running on Windows 2000 Workstation/Pro SP4 and XP Pro SP1 on the the exact...
[September 15, 2009, 6:29]
OS Scratch Load Times
Blog The same is generally true with Windows XP. My S6510 XP Pro recovery DVD is XP SP2, so it only needs to pick up SP3 and a few miscellaneous patches; but the S2110 recovery is SP1, and it is a long, painful process to get it through SP2, then SP3.
[November 20, 2008, 7:59]
PDF4U Pro Terminal Server Edition
Downloads PDF4U creates PDF files from any Windows application running on Windows NT (SP3+), Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. This PDF4U Terminal Server Edition is designed for applications in a multi-user server environment including...
[July 14, 2005, 8:41]
