Archive for the ‘Windows XP’ Category

PerfectOS

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

It might be a bit over-confident of me to say this, especially given the fact that I’ve never attempted anything even close this magnitude, but … I think I could build the perfect operating system. Well, what I mean to say is that I could if I had two things that I don’t right now: time and programming knowledge. I have the usability know-how, I think. At least a little.
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Service Pack 3 is out!

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Yes, friends, it’s what you’ve all been waiting for … the final service pack for Windows XP. And I consider it a must-get.
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Nah, Microsoft still requires some degree of validation

Monday, August 20th, 2007

OK, so maybe I was too quick to rejoice. After all, this is Microsoft we’re talking about.
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Windows XP Activation woes are over!

Friday, August 17th, 2007

As our story begins, Garrett has decided that the time has come to upgrade the aging parts in his desktop computer …

So ya, I just bought a new processor (which required that I also purchase a new motherboard and thus a new graphics card). And so, my installation of XP balked when it saw all this new stuff. (I think the main problems were that [1] it couldn’t run the new ACPI, and [2] it didn’t know what to do with a 64-bit processor, since I upgraded from an AMD Athlon XP to an Athlon 64.)
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