Posts by thomasthetanker

Alternatively with no Reg tweaks

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/608ecca8-b815-4ff6-8f3c-a828518434a7

INSTRUCTIONS:

01. Reboot your computer while it's starting up.

02. When your computer starts up again, choose the option "Launch Startup Repair"

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03. When the Startup repair starts, click cancel.

04. After you click cancel it will show a box. Click "Don't Send"

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05. Click the link "View advanced options for recovery and support"

06. In the new window click Command Prompt at the bottom.

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07. In Command Prompt type this and press enter: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe

08. Notepad will open. In notepad go to File-->Open.

09. Change the type of files notepad views from .txt to All Files (see pic)

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10. Now in Notepad, go to C:\Windows\winsxs\ (or whichever drive Windows is installed on)

11. In that folder, find pending.xml and make a copy of it

12. Now open the original pending.xml (it will load really slow because the file is huge)

13. Press CNTRL+F and search for the following exactly: 0000000000000000.cdf-ms

14. Delete the following text (yours will be a little different):

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Your PC might not have all 3 sections of code (, , ). Just make sure you delete section "Checkpoint" and whatever other sections have "000000000000000.cdf-ms". They will be right next to eachother.

15. Save the file, close notepad, close command prompt, restart your computer.

Once your computer starts up, do a normal startup (it may stall for 5-10 minutes at the "starting windows" screen, but leave it going) and the Service Pack will install some more stuff and restart a few times and then everything should be working! For some people, it reverts everything and cancels the service pack installation. For other people, the service pack installation completes. Either result is fine.

Tomorrow things will never be the same

Tomorrow iTunes homepage will display picture of The Beatles and a heading of 'Yesterday'?

Argh!

Won't somebody please think of the terrorists?

Realisation dawns

Went past Regent Street on Sept 11th, thought it was some kind of Arabesque protest.

Yes, they were, just like flamingoes.

Essential

I've got a compass on my watch, great for deciding which exit you need on the tube or finding your way into/ out of Amsterdam's red light district.

My moneys on..

Its a cunning bit of marketing.

Paris - because when she leaks its intentional

There's always one...

And this time its me!

Nice features, I've had a bash, quite happy, works well for me,

Paris - because she also got "Nice features, I've had a bash"

Bravo

Well done folks, comments were better than the article

Genius!

The region with the greatest number of people will be the last to benefit from HD

Gorey story

Al Gore didnt invent the internet, he invented the worlds first Powerpoint presentation as anyone who's seen An Inconvienient Truth will testify

Do the maths

Five Nines = P45

Conspiracy theorists would say someone did it on purposeAs Chopper would say "You've got to ask yourself, who benefits?"

Flying...

If they can't tell the difference between a 14 year old and a 16 year old then Gary Glitter is collecting his ticket as we speak

Fanboi alert

Suddenly the mac Air book in an envelope ad seems prophetic

- Paris because she can empty my bag anytime

Old one..

Did you hear about the one about the blind circumsiser?

..he got the sack

swap

If Tiscali cut me off can't I just swap broadband provider or am I blacklisted and put on a national database?

If he goes to court...

will he be guilty as charged?

Disc us

I'm sure Terry Pratchett is smiling down on all the Cutmeownthroat Diblah wannabe's

First

Oh, am I the only one that can't do any work because our websites down?