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If you need to reinstall Windows XP and only have the original disk you are in for a long process to get the operating system installed and up to date. There have been hundreds, if not thousands of security patches and updates released for Windows XP since its release in 2001. So, you could install XP with the original disk, then install the latest service pack and updates, but you may run into problems such as the fact that the original XP doesn’t recognize all of your large hard disk. The best way to reduce installation time and avoid potential problems is to "slipstream" the service pack files into the original version of XP. What you end up with is an installation media with all the service pack files already included.

Sometimes when you try to share a folder on an Windows XP computer, you may receive an error message that says "As a security measure, Windows has disabled remote access to this computer. However you can enable remote access and safely share files by running the Network Setup Wizard." This is caused by a local policy setting, read on for the step by step instructions for resolving this problem…

A client of mine had this issue recently. When you try to start a program with administrative privileges in Windows XP by using the Runas command, the program window opens but it’s empty. This happens because of an issue with permissions. There is a fairly simple workaround for the problem.

By default, QuickEdit mode in the command prompt window is disabled in Windows XP. QuickEdit mode is a useful function that lets you copy text between a command window and GUI-based programs, or paste text into the command window using the right click option.

I recently installed CentOS 5.3 version of Linux on a new testing server and started configuring all of the bells and whistles. I made some initial tweaks to Apache, MySQL, and PHP to set up my web server test environment. Everything seemed to be running smoothly until I happened to run an older PHP script I wrote to manipulate image files. The script resizes and renames image files in specified directories. Only one problem, the script was dying without a trace, no errors, nothing.