Alessandro Zanello

Often access to shared resources that require you to enter a user name and password and this is repeated for each subsequent access.

Sometimes it would be nice to speed up the operation or even to enter only the username and password is default.

For Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can use the system utilities:

cmdkey

that allows you to maintain multiple combinations of usernames and passwords to shared resources on the network, keeping them encrypted in the Windows Registry. more »

If you happen to disappear minimized program icons in the lower right notification area (system tray) or have malfunctions related to the taskbar (the area where the buttons are programs running) or the Quick Launch toolbar , try this tool:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/TaskBarRepairToolPlus!.zip

And 'free for almost all functions, some others require a registration of $ 5.

On this site http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com there is also a flood of mostly free tools for XP problems.

If you want a do-it-yourself solution tested here it is, copy the following into a text file with a. Vbs (eg. Riparatray.vbs) and run it by double clicking:

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If you do not belong to a domain, XP has some limitations: for example, XP Home does not support Group Policy Editor:

while XP Pro can not selectively apply policies to specific users, here a small freeware tool that requires no installation that addresses precisely these limitations:

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If € ™ s not install the service pack 3 is successful with a synthetic error â € œ â € Access Denied and leaves you puzzled and irritated, to prevent the onset of the usual heartburn, try these steps.

Make sure you are using a user account with no limits, preferably the administrator.

Download the complete package of Service Pack 3 and use it for € ™ s version instead of installing Windows Update, which provides for the use of the Internet.

Disable any programs that might disturb € ™ s installation, such as antivirus, firewall, emulators drive (of course with the consequent risks to security).

Visit this Microsoft support page which contains instructions to follow.

Where € ™ s administrative utility secedit is not present on your PC if you can find it here , copy it to C: \ WINDOWS before starting the operation.

The process takes a lot, at the end of the same retry the installation of SP3.

It sometimes happens that a system will not boot anymore and that the owner did not even know to say if the OS version installed was XP Pro or Home. In these cases you can put in a CD player at random with the attendant risks or possible ... if you can read the disc on another PC, looking into the boot.ini file, located in C: \, you can read the version .

Alternatively, using any CD system with the ability to mount an NTFS system you can get to command prompt and then run a

type c: \ boot.ini

and read the string that says "Microsoft Windows XP ...", which you can avoid unscrew one screw, but does not tell you if the installation was Retail, OEM, VLK, Full or Upgrade.

How to determine the type of CD you have Windows XP CD:

Look at the entries on the CD: if you say "Sales matched only to the purchase of a PC" is an OEM version if it is not retail.

If it says "Update", is Retail. In this case requires a CD of a previous version to install.

If you have a brand name (Dell, HP, or ASEM), is OEM.

How to determine the type of license you have Windows XP:

Try the self-adhesive label on the computer case (see examples on the side), if there is OEM to 99%. If there is, perhaps with a name computer company is OEM. If he says it clearly is OEM.

If no label is likely to be a retail version.

It is not easy to recognize a CD from an Action Pack subscription or a volume license but usually you know.

If you have the CD and for any reason we do not understand your version, you can look inside the file "eula.txt", in I386. The last line of the file is a specific version as per the following table:

Windows XP Home Retail
EULAID: WX.4_HOM_RTL_EN
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