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Windows XP includes a feature called anti-piracy Windows Product Activation or more commonly the activation process. This is to prevent you from installing a copy of Windows XP already activated on another PC. This procedure provides that, after installing the operating system to run an online activation within 30 days.

Through this activation, Windows XP sends an encrypted file that is used to identify the key components in the system. These data are stored in Wpa.dnl, a file in the folder% System-Root% System32. In short, this file determines whether, in case of hardware changes, we need a new activation. If you need to reinstall Windows XP after you have already activated, you should create a copy of Wpa.dnl.

If the hardware has not changed appreciably over the initial activation can be restored Wpa.dnl and skip the activation process. The same boot Windows makes a backup of the file, called Wpa.bak very useful in case of problems due to hardware changes. In case Windows will not boot because the new hardware has triggered the activation code, you can use a remedy to restore the old hardware, start the computer in safe mode with networking and rename Wpa.bak as the Wpa.dbl . In this way the system is reactivated.

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Back in the late 1970’s, two enterprising young computer programmers named Paul Allen and Bill Gates developed an adaptation for the BASIC computer language that would help run newly created personal computer just coming on the technology market.

As with any technology, their original creation changed and grew.

The two friends decided they had the product and the capability to become successful, so they formed a company now known as Microsoft.

Over the years, Microsoft has grown to a giant in the computer industry with successes never before seen by a “from scratch” endeavor.

Microsoft was responsible for the development of not only several computer languages like COBOL and PASCAL, but also for the development of the earliest operating system MS-DOS.

In partnership with IBM, who was just introducing the personal computer to the individual consumer, all of the IBM computers used MS-DOS on their systems.  The year was 1981.

Windows 3.1 was the first product to fully utilize graphical user interface for ease of controlling what the computer would do. Read the rest of this entry →

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Some people claim that you even can improve on if you do not prefer the current version of Windows Vista?’ OK, using Windows Vista downloaded in various new PCs, we do not have the alternative of replacing the version of windows XP.

My friend purchased a different laptop as well as the first thing he required to do was to set up XP. Therefore, I tried it, but Vista was a lot smart to allow XP’s installation program wizard.

I let my friend know that proper method to set up XP would be to re-map the hard disk drive plus do a clear set up of XP. Read the rest of this entry →

Every computers have an operating system. What is an operating system ? An operating system – commonly referred to as an OS – is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer.

The OS processes electronic devices with a rational response to commands that are approved by the system.

At the foundation of all system software, an operating system performs basic tasks like controlling and allocating memory, prioritizing system requests, controlling input and output devices, facilitating the network, and managing files. Read the rest of this entry →

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