Posts Tagged ‘XP’

Graceful Gradient

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 [...]

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USB XP Woes

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 [...]

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Files Be Gone

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 [...]

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