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Purge XP's File Protection Cache

To delete the DLL cache used by Windows file protection, the following command can be used (start > run): sfc /purgecache This is useful for effectively disabling file protection (Windows will try to use the XP Install CD if it is in the driv...

Editing Registry Files on Other Partitions

Recently, I had a need to make changes to the System entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which is not allowed by Windows for the currently running copy. Fortunately for me I have two copies of XP for testing purposes, so in order to make the change I sim...

Setting Up a Test Server

Today I was trying to set up an additional development server for testing of ASP.NET sites and MS-SQL databases, as our original server had become overloaded and was performing poorly for testing purposes. In setting up the server, I encountered s...