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Let’s begin the guide without wasting time. Just make sure that you have a pen drive with 4GB + capacity if you are making a bootable USB flash drive. Requirements to create bootable Windows USB: # Windows 7 or Vista ISO # Pen drive with 4GB+ (2 GB is sufficient for XP) # 15 Minutes of free time Procedure: 1. Insert your USB flash/pen drive to your system and backup all the data from the USB as your USB drive will be formatted during the process. 2. Now download WinToFlash tool (free) from here . 3. Run the tool, and browse to your Windows 7, Vista, or XP DVD files (make sure that your USB drive letter is correct). 4. Click Create button to begin the bootable USB process. Wait for few minutes to see the bootable USB. 5. That’s all!

High CPU usage due to hardware interrupts problem: Even with no program running, the CPU usage is 60% and the hard disk is going at full speed (indicating I/O?) I have done all the standard scans for malware/Viruses and came up with no viruses and very little ad/spyware. I noticed high CPU usage at times when there was no program running. I ran process explorer and found that the CPU usage due to hardware interrupt got up to about 80% and there are always at least 1,500 interrupts per scond (CSwitch Delta column). I believe this is excessive and I also believe it to be a hardware problem or possibly a driver issue.  This turns out  ATA/IDE controllers will often revert back to PIO mode instead of Ultra-DMA.  (According to MS KB article on the problem here .) Solution: Check the problem by examining the controller’s Primary and Secondary IDE settings: Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers -> Primary or Secondary IDE Channel -> Properties ...

When executing the following command to Start> Run> ipconfig /renew The below error message displays on your screen: An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection: the requested service provider could not be loaded or initialized. An error occurred while renewing interface 'Internet': An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. The operation failed since no adapter is in the state permissible for this operation. Solution: Go to menu start and select Run. Copy/paste the following command: netsh winsock reset catalog ADD DEL Move

When joining users to the domain. Copying their current profiles to new profiles, this will takes a very long time. There's a way to CHANGE their current local login profile, (without creating a copy as that will take up lots of space and time,) to a domain profile 1. Log onto system. 2. Go to start/run/regedt32 3. Locate key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList 4. This will show all readable profiles on the machine, it may but probably will not show information leading to the users original profile. 5. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\UsersName and note the profile name of the original profile, usually the same minus the domain information. Make a note of it. 6. Now go back to regedit and manually edit the duplicate profile location in the ProfileImagePath key to that of the original e.g: Original - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith Duplicate - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith.domain Change the ...

I checked the "My Computer" window, and F: drive was assigned to my primary hard drive. C: and E: drives had been assigned to my the 2 slots in my 7-in-1 card reader as "Removable Disk(s)", and my CD drive was designated as D: drive.   So how do I change the drive letter names within Windows XP so that C: represents my primary hard drive? I can manually change the current drive letters set for the 7-in-1 card reader using the XP Disk Management snap-in, but when I try to change my hard drve's letter, I receive an error message that says "Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume."    Solution: 1. Start regedit 2. Go to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices 3. Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "\DosDevices\C:". 4. Right-click \DosDevices\C: , and then click Rename . 5. Rename it to an unused drive letter "\DosDevices\Z:". This fr...

you probably have 802.11n authentication checked and make sure that the box next to "Enable IEEE 802.11x ..." is NOT checked. 1. On the PC, in Control Panel | Network Connections, right-click on the Local Area Connection and choose Properties. 2. In Local Area Connection Properties, go to the Authentication tab. 3. In the Authentication tab, uncheck Enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network.

I'm not able to login to Windows. As soon as login, the windows show applying settings, saving settings and logs off automatically without logging in. This situation is really very troublesome. The main reasons behind this problem is a corruption in the registry key which holds the value of the files which are executed while login to windows. This registry key can get either replaced with some incorrect value or it might get corrupt due to some virus / trojan activity. Lets see how to fix this issue. Solution: Fix with BartPE     Bart Lagerweij's PE Builder is a utility that allows you to create your own bootable CD-ROM ("BartPE") by extracting the necessary files from your Windows XP installation CD. PE Builder lets you add other applications by using "plugins". Another extremely useful feature of BartPE is the ability to create a boot CD-ROM that provides network access. Yes, you can even surf the Internet from such a CD-ROM. Watch our tutorial ...

Since a lot of you weren’t (and still aren’t) too excited about Windows Vista, you might not have noticed the exFAT file system before. It’s the heir apparent to FAT32, and it can finally cope with large files and drives. What’s new? For starters, exFAT has been tweaked to provide faster access and allocation, adds support for UTC time stamps, and provides increased compatability with flash media. Gone are the 32gb drive and 4gb file size limitations. The only problem is that exFAT isn’t native to Windows XP – which the vast majority of you are probably still running. Problem solved. Microsoft has released KB955704 to address the issue. Download it from their site and install it, and you’ll be able to seamlessly work with exFAT partitions in XP.