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Recently my Uncle tried to update his new(ish) computer from Windows XP SP2 to Windows XP SP3, but he kept receiving the following error: RPC Server Unavailable Service Pack 3 installation did not complete If you happen to run into this error, the most likely cause is that you don’t have the EnableRSS subkey in…
Today is the final day Microsoft plans on selling Windows XP. Though retailers will likely continuing selling until they run out of stock. Still, XP will live on, at least for a little while in the UMPC/sub-notebook market. Can’t wait until they discontinue sales of Vista!
Back in November I wrote that I’d downgraded 17 Vista machines to XP, well I’m happy to report that roughly seven months later I’ve downgraded a total of 149 machines! 107 of them being laptops, and the remainder being desktops. I’ve also moved 14 computers from Vista to various distros of Linux. Further proof that…
It’s no secret that you could’ve grabbed a copy of SP3 off Microsoft’s server anytime in the last three months with nothing more than a simple registry hack (although up until this last week it wouldn’t have been a final release). Gone however are the days of registry hacks, as Microsoft has released SP3 into…
I’ve often wondered just how bad Vista really is on system performance, so recently when I purchased a couple of Acer laptops I decided to install XP on one and leave Vista on the other for a few tests. Basically I’m just running Geekbench and a battery life test, nothing crazy. For the battery test,…