Turn off the prompt for installing Windows Desktop Search in Outlook
Go Microsoft! An annoying reminder that is really hard to figure out how to disable.
Boot.ini, XP, eeepc
Boot.ini is whack. After a lot of searching, I finally found a page that kind of describes what the options of boot.ini are. So I finally got my D:\ drive root eeepc to boot nicely. The weird boot.ini is a remnant of the USB install I did of XP, I think.
nLite for eeepc 4g
Ok, so I’m going to follow this guide. I followed the whole guide to nLiting the install, with a few tweaks for my own uses (kept IIS for example). Anyway, I burned the cd. But wait, no usb cable here at work. I brought the external dvd burner, but not the cable, since I figured [...]
(semi) Common Problems in IIS
The start up of the websites in IIS under XP seems non-deterministic. I rebooted my laptop (which I normally hibernate) and when I went to navigate to the site in IIS Manager, choose “Start” gave me: “The request is not supported.” So I stopped VMWare’s website. Then I got: “Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred.” So I [...]
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