techno surprises

December 30, 2007

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate

Standalone Update Package for Windows® XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate

See the overview from http://www.microsoft.com/

Windows XP SP3 combines all previously released performance, security, and stability updates. It also
provides a limited number of new and enhanced functionalities, although it does not significantly change the
Windows XP experience or bring functionality from newer versions of Windows to Windows XP. The goals of
Windows XP SP3 are to:

  • Provide a new baseline for customers still deploying Windows XP, to help them avoid the inconvenience
    of applying individual updates.
  • Fill gaps in the updates users might have missed by declining individual updates when using Automatic
    Updates, and to deliver updates not made available through Windows Update.

Windows Vista provides the most advanced security and management capability, but for PCs that cannot be
upgraded to Windows Vista right now, Windows XP SP3 ensures these PCs have all available updates and
allows these PCs to leverage some new Windows Server 2008 capabilities, such as Network Access
Protection (NAP).

All language supported downlod links:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=75ed934c-8423-4386-ad98-36b124a720aa&DisplayLang=en

Overview

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&DisplayLang=en#filelist

October 26, 2007

IE 7 fonts are clear type

You can easily change the font-type to normal.

Note: This steps tested on Windows Server 2003 SP2 Internet Explorer 7 and Windows XP Pro SP2 Internet Explorer 7.

Step1:

ie tools

Step2:

tools window,

step 3:

clear type disable

Thats all :))

August 9, 2007

Adobe CS3 products serial cleaner

Adobe has published a CS3 trial key remover, it also removes old beta CS3 products and enables you to install full product.

It also help to get rid of the message ‘Error “License  has expired” when you start Adobe CS3 applications, including Design and Web Suites’

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402003&sliceId=1

Program can be run under MAC and Windows XP, Vista.

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html

Windows: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/creativesuite/script/3/wincs3clean.zip

MAC: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/creativesuite/script/3/maccs3clean.dmg

Special Note: Before running windows version you need windows uninstaller utility tool : http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/9/d/e9d80355-7ab4-45b8-80e8-983a48d5e1bd/msicuu2.exe

August 7, 2007

How to change the Volume Licensing product key Windows XP, Windows server2003

Microsoft published changing the product key legally document. And method can be applied to listed below operating system.

Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)

Here is the document, easy to apply. Good luck;

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328874

July 4, 2007

font style became suddenly italic

Filed under: answers, control panel, font style, fonts, questions, technology, windows, windows xp — Mustafa Turan @ 7:31 pm

Today, I had a problem about my font style. When I open web pages I saw that all web pages are viewing ITALIC with both IE6.0 and Firefox 2.2.

I thought that I have a configuration problem. Then I checked IE setting from control panel and I set default fonts.

Internet Properties Window

Then I applied the following settings.

Internet Properties - Fonts Section Window

But appling this setting could not solve my problem, Then I seeked the web but I could not find answer, I espicially checked microsoft.com support pages, but there is not really. Just http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/nospectextfont.mspx is smiliar what I have done.

Then I opened a new windows user account, and I had still the same problem about fonts.

After 9 hours passed, I remembered that I had changed the ‘FONTS’ folder, seeing italic fonts. And I found the font type Arial and Times News Roman on the web, and re add it to FONTS folder. Then I saw that everythings is OK, my fonts are normal.

Hope, this will help others having the same problem.

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