Changing the default user profile is not a particularly daunting task. In fact, my experiences show that in Windows 2000, XP and 2003, it’s a relatively painless experience.

Logged in as a local administrator, create a new user account.
Log out and log in as that user.
Log back in as an administrator.
Enable Show hidden files and folders
Go [...]

A neat trick I picked up while browsing t’internet is how to carry out a quick motherboard replacement on 2000 or XP Windows systems:
Before you swap out the current motherboard go to device manager and select the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller and select your current storage controller. Right click, select update driver and select install from [...]

So, here we are!
Windows XP has shocked me by developing an unexpected ‘feature’.
As I was in a bid to design a pretty backdrop – I thought I’d save a 4 pixel image and save it as a bitmap. When previewing it as a Windows backdrop – I forgot to set the bitmap to tile instead [...]

Having been involved in a few Windows XP/2003 suite installations now – there seems to be a reoccurring problem with people and their USB devices.
Simply put – if you’re not an admin user of any sort, then the machine will not allow you to add or remove USB devices.
As a security issue, this is fine [...]

I noticed that some files were disappearing on one of the Servers the other day. A few people had noticed. And it finally happened to me. I was roaming through my ‘My Documents’ folder when I noticed that folders that shouldn’t be empty were.
Checking out the KnowledgeBase, I discovered that if your profile folder is [...]

I’ve been having problems with the Tally 8006e and 8024 running on Windows Server 2003. On a couple of systems I’ve found that the drivers seem to knock out the Windows spool. Whenever it tries to print, an error message pops up saying Unable to create print job.
The fact that it doesn’t even seem to [...]