Blue Screen During Boot – Loop on Windows XP, Server
So, you have a Windows system that gets a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) during bootup, and you can’t see what it says before it disappears. Not a big deal, except that the system won’t boot into safe mode either, so you can’t do the regular method, using the Windows GUI, to set the system properties settings so that the system does not automatically reboot when the blue screen appears. Yikes! Well, if you want to stop the system from rebooting beforee you can get the STOP: codes, and find out how to fix the problem, here is a really neat way:
How To Disable Automatic Restart For BSOD If You Are Unable To Get Into Windows
Another neat tip from a Japanese Lenovo support board, save me some work today (use Google to translate):
Thanks all for the help!
Posted under Hardware, Microsoft, Operating System, Software
This post was written by Content Curator on December 3, 2009
How To Tell Windows XP To Not Look For New Wireless Networks
In order to make Windows XP ignore new wireless networks, there must be some sort of registry tweak or something, right? There must be some way to force the manual setup of new wireless network connections in Windows, right? Let’s find out… After a bit of Googling came up with these:
http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/wirelessconn.htm
This one may be true, but on the system I checked the checkbox mentioned was not ticked. Not to mention, this does not keep the wireless adapter from finding, or scanning for, new wireless networks and reporting that they are in view.
Posted under Microsoft, Network, Wireless
This post was written by Content Curator on July 2, 2009
