While running Windows XP it is easy to think that we are missing out on a lot of cool, free open-source software and applications. After all, not all open-source applications are available for a Windows PC. Microsoft however has provided us with over 150 free…
Free Defrag for Windows
To defrag your hard drive is one of the easiest ways to speed up your computer. Unfortunately the default utility that is included with Windows XP is not the best one available, but there are some free alternatives out there for you to use. In…
Removing Hotfix and Service Pack Uninstall Files Safely
Windows Hotfix and Service Pack Uninstall files can take up quite a lot of space on a Windows XP installation. Ed Bott’s got a good article about how to safely remove uninstall files from your Windows XP installation. It’s a question that I have often…
Shrink the SQL Server Transaction Log
I don’t consider myself an expert on Microsoft SQL server, as a matter of fact I don’t know much at all and depend almost entirely on the Internet to solve my problems. So on Monday morning when I came into the office to find that…
Software RAID on Windows 2003
On Friday my primary Microsoft Active Directory Server hard drive failed. In our planning we did not set up the server with RAID on the OS Hard Drive. Now I am stuck loading the system up from scratch. In planning for the rebuild I went…
Recover Windows XP Product Key
In a recent case of “borrowing” at work the product key for my Windows XP Pro installation went for a walk and never returned. I was staring down the barrel of a $100 bill to purchase software that I had already purchased once because of…