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Just installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 from Microsoft’s Servers. It’s not up on Windows Update yet, but this LifeHacker post posts a link to download the exe file from the Microsoft Servers.
The download itself for the english version is around 300Mb in size, which didn’t take long to download. Usually I wait a while […]

Afer moving from Ubuntu back to Windows XP (Not by choice) I found that what I missed most was the ability to quickly access the terminal, either by using yakuake or pressing F4 in any conqueror window. I tried installing the “Command Prompt Here” powertoy for Windows XP, but I’m more of a command-line cowboy […]

When trying to reinstall Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 I came across this strange error:
error opening file for writing js3250.dll
After searching on Google for answers it seems some people are having this trouble due to malware. Malware? Me? No. Never. Well… Maybe. So I scan with Ad-aware and AVG for virii/malware and finds nothing. Okay, so I […]

So today I started to get a strange error every time I opened a folder in Windows Explorer and Explorer would crash. Turns out there’s a problem with my DivX/XVid codec being used to display the image previews for avi files. First of all I tried removing my DivX web player and ffdshow to see […]