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Troubleshooting DVD/CD Readers/Writers
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3D 5.1 Surround Sound, Film and Media
Unless you have a great collection of Dolby digitally encoded DVDs or some of the more recent Dolby encoded PC games, 3D surround-sound samples are hard to come by. This page provides links to resources, sample sounds and guides to help you show off the capabilities of your 3D 5.1 surround sound system.
Getting Apache and Perl to Work in Windows XP
If you want to run your own web server and you have big plans for getting hits, don't rely on Internet Information Services (IIS) in Windows XP Professional. It's nobbled to a limit of 10 simultaneous connections, and broadband users can open far more than 10 connections to your page just by loading it once. Your visitors will constantly get "server is too busy" errors. Of course, Microsoft's solution is to get you to fork out untold thousands of pesos for Windows Server 2003, but the really smart people install a real web server, like Apache.
Those of you who are adventurous and want to do some server side scripting might find this article on getting Apache to execute Perl scripts in Windows XP helpful in getting your server side scripts to return data to a client web browser using the Include Virtual CGI directive.
How Not To Get Technical Help on Usenet
This resource will assist you to not get the help you need. It is normally given to people posting into news:alt.os.windows-xp. If you see a daft technical question, please feel free to hand out this link.
This new article is lengthy and contains a lot of graphics. It may take some time to load on dial-up connections.
This information is provided for the benefit of those who have had their posting privileges revoked by their ISP or news provider for expressing controversial opinions or for being engaged in flame wars with other posters.
Using content filtering, content blocking and proxies to protect your children when they are online, plus other sophisticated tools to prevent adverts and unwanted pop-ups.
How to make the very best use of obscene amounts of RAM. There are tens of thousands of websites offering performance tweaks for XP and you could spend the next week or more researching the ones you might like to perform, or you can save yourself a lot of bother and read this article.
NTFS is the recommended file system for Windows XP and provides a number of benefits in terms of functionality, security, stability, availability, reliability, and performance, over that provided by FAT32. There are very few reasons to persist with FAT32. Read this article to help you decide which file system to choose.
Resources to assist in identifying and tracing the cause of stop errors in Windows XP. Helpful links for you to follow if you are unfamiliar with fault-finding Stop errors.
Forgotten your password? Need to know what you can do about it? Deals with numerous password related issues.
A collection of useful resources for determining and dealing with the source of high CPU usage problems, which cause the system to become unresponsive either intermittently or continuously.
There is a difference between activating Windows XP and registering it. Here are some important facts to help you.
Your hard disk has been FDISKed, formatted, repartitioned and generally belted, battered and abused because you are going insane over XP simply refusing to install. No matter what you do, you cannot get into XP or even get it to go through the set-up process without failing at some point. As soon it loads, it either dies with one of any number of error messages or it just hangs.
Sick of getting spammed by the messenger service? Sick of pop-up ads? Having trouble with trojans or spyware? Want to play a few games on the web without getting ads flashed in your face? Updated with additional resources for trojan and spyware defences.
Set up a Home Network for File Sharing Using a Router
Solutions for Backup and Recovery
Details how to deal with the "NT Authority\system" shutdown via "Remote Procedure Call" (RPC) problem whilst trying to patch Windows XP against attack.
If your Windows XP CD is not already integrated with Service Pack 2 and your XP installation on the hard disk has been upgraded to SP2, you will be unable to do an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) from your original CD. Use these instructions to create a bootable Windows XP CD that is integrated with SP2. If you don't have a CD burner, you can create a folder on your hard disk and perform the reinstallation from there.
Upgrade advice. Find out if XP supports your current hardware and software. Vendor contact lists. BIOS manufacturers. XP Release Notes. Lists of printers, modems, scanners, display adaptors, desktop cameras and sound drivers found in Windows XP. What if you can't find a driver?
Upgrade advice. Find out if XP supports your current hardware and software. Vendor contact lists. BIOS manufacturers. XP Release Notes. Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. Lists of printers, modems, scanners, display adaptors, desktop cameras and sound drivers found in Windows XP. What if you can't find a driver?
Links to free for personal use firewalls, plus firewall and internet connection speed testing resources. Includes links to allow you to traceroute from various places around the world back to your own IP.
Networking and
Internet Connections
Troubleshooting links for Home Networks, Wireless, Internet Connections, Internet Connection Sharing, Cable Modems, TCP/IP, create Virtual Private Network (VPN), also troubleshoot Network Sharing and Printing.
Links to help you troubleshoot your hardware and/or software. Links for msconfig, Windows Media Player, Stop errors, device conflicts, DOS applications, video adapters, cable modems, older 16-bit apps, system restore issues, black screen on start-up, how to clean boot and perform selective start-up - not the same as a "safe boot." See above for links to resolving Networking Issues and Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) problems. DVD/CD Reader/Writer troubleshooting links are below.
Troubleshooting DVD/CD
Readers/Writers
Links to troubleshoot your DVD, CDR or CDRW hardware and/or software. Need help to configure IDE/ATA (ATAPI) CD and HDD devices?
Troubleshooting IEEE 1394 (FireWire) Devices
Links to the most popular Microsoft Knowledge Base troubleshooting articles for IEEE 1394 (FireWire) problems.
Free for personal use anti-virus software. Resources to help you test your firewall and your virus checker. Expanded information for virus, trojan and worm removal tools, plus information on how to prevent virus attacks.
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Date: 21 August 2005
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