{"id":602,"date":"2003-10-04T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/10\/10-4-03\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T23:15:27","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-future-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/04\/welcome-to-the-new-future-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the New Future: Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Windows XP early on Friday&#8230; and late on Friday&#8230; and early on Saturday. Here&#8217;s a list of tips for installing XP and Office.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I tried (unsuccessfully) to use the Install from Scratch system on a computer that already had Win2K. I found myself in this awful state where nothing would run properly. (In all previous versions of windows, I&#8217;ve found it important to wipe your computer every year or two. Performance and compatibility karma come your way when you do). I eventually did an &#8220;upgrade&#8221; install. It seems to be working ok.<\/li>\n<li>     If you threw away the envelope that your Windows XP CD came in (Doh!) XPKey.exe (a 48k download from The Blue List) did a fine job of finding my key. Curiously, it didn&#8217;t work on Office XP for me.<\/li>\n<li>     I&#8217;ve got some terrible hesitation\/hanging weirdness going on. From my web browsings, it looks like it&#8217;s related to Instant Messaging being built in to Office. Doing the following seems to have worked for me: Go to Microsoft Outlook | Tools | Options | Other and turn off &#8220;Enable Instant Messaging in Microsoft Outlook&#8221;. Also, it seems important that you don&#8217;t kill the stupid Windows Messenger system tray program. When I did, I started seeing stupid slugishnesses.<\/li>\n<li>Running sfc.exe from the command prompt seems to have helped the sluggishness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Windows XP early on Friday&#8230; and late on Friday&#8230; and early on Saturday. Here&#8217;s a list of tips for installing XP and Office. I tried (unsuccessfully) to use the Install from Scratch system on a computer that already had Win2K. I found myself in this awful state where nothing would run properly. (In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}