I was working on a computer with a bunch of viruses / malware on it (it had no A/V previously) and a bunch of things were messed up. No firewall, no windows updates, network stack wouldn’t start, etc. etc. One of the things on my list was to get windows updates to work again, and […]

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If you have a windows XP installation CD / DVD, and you’d like to know if it’s OEM, Retail, or Volume Licensed, take a look here to find out: http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/setuppini.html I’ll try to hunt down the same info for Windows Vista, and 7 as well. Another resource: http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Product_IDs

In the registry go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\explorer\Advanced\Folder and then there is a sub key Hidden with 3 subkeys, NOHIDDEN, NOHIDORSYS, SHOWALL. The default value for all these 3 is (0), and the checked values are (2), (0), (1) respectively. The next subkey of Folder is HideFileExt, and the checked, unchecked, and default values are (1), […]

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