Windows

After installing WIndows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), your Wireless network utility may stop working and you may get the following error message every time the system restarts

You may experience the following error when installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) when installing on Intel iMAC using Bootcamp to run Windows XP.

If you have not already written your Microsoft Word 2003 document in outline mode, then you need to signify what text should be mentioned in the table of contents. Highlight the document text that you want to show up as table of contents major sections.

Windows XP contains several tweakable memory settings in the registry, one of which is the DisablePagingExecutive registry key. This controls whether the operating system will transfer its essential driver and kernel files to the ‘virtual memory’ (the page file on the hard disk). It defaults to allowing this.

Taskbar Shuffle is a simple, small, free utility that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to rearrange them.

Telnet is not enabled by default in Windows Server 2008. However, Telnet Client is a feature included with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. On Windows Server 2008, you can install Telnet Client by using the Add Features Wizard in Server Manager.

There are a couple of nifty and free tools that you can install on top of Windows Explorer that can add a few useful and convenient features.

When you are comparing two Word documents, having them next to each other is a necessity. Word 2007 makes it easy to place your two documents side by side.

A packet sniffer is used to analyze the network traffic. Sometimes they are also called network analyzers, protocol analyzers or ethernet sniffers. System administrators usually use them to analyze the behaviour of an application or device causing network problems.

In XP, one had the Explorer and also IE showing the Window titles. However, this feature has been done away with, probably due to redundancy. But you still get to see it in IE7.But not in Vista’s Explorer.