Power Toys and Ultimate Extras for Windows 7 and Vista (XP Too) Part 3 – Useful Windows – News and How To’s. The Power Toys for Windows XP were very popular to the point that Microsoft made you pay for the ones in Vista and called them Ultimate Extras, but unlike their XP counterparts they did not release a lot of the Ultimate Extras. In Part 3 we will be looking at more utilities this time from Microsoft. Utilities from Microsoft. 3) Windows XP Licensing Agreement: (Image 1.3) The “Windows XP Licensing Agreement” screen, otherwise known as “EULA,” displays the legal in’s and out’s. Microsoft Security Essentials This is my new favorite antivirus software. Sync. Toy This actually started as a Power Toy for Windows XP and has been evolved over the years into what it is today. Hey Wayne, thanks for your brilliant advice, I followed what u wrote and i managed to load Windows XP SP3 on my Dell 960. I changed the Bios settings from AHCI to ATA. Download free Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 themes, icons, wallpapers and more! Yap yap and this is not working even changing settings. I thougt it is a virus in my computer but i have reinstall xp and deleted all data from all disk c and d. You are here: Home / Power Toys and Ultimate Extras for Windows 7 and Vista (XP Too) Part 3. Windows Mobile Device Center This software is for syncing files and information for Windows Mobile smartphones. Microsoft Active. Sync The Windows Mobile Device Center is not available for Windows XP and this is where Active. Sync comes in. Microsoft Mathematics This program should have its own blog post. You can do just about anything Math related on this thing. Install Windows XP on Dell Optiplex 7. AHCI SATA Driver. Since it looks like Windows XP will still be hanging around for at least a few more months, I thought I should share one of the cool tricks that I have found when installing it to theses newer Dell computers that have difference mode SATA controllers. Coming from the factory most PCs will come with Vista on it and be have the SATA controller in AHCI mode. Vista has drivers to use the controller in this mode, however Windows XP doesn’t. And since most computers don’t ship with a floppy and won’t recognize a flash driver when installing XP your only option is to slipstream the driver on to the Windows XP CD to make it boot the PC. Well with these newer Dells you have the option to go in to the BIOS and change in what mode the SATA controller operates. You should see options for ATA mode / AHCI mode and RAID mode. By selecting the ATA mode you can use the drivers already supplied by default on the Windows XP CD, once you get it installed you can use the Windows Device Manager to update the drivers to the AHCI ones. Below are the detailed instructions on how to install the AHCI driver once you have Windows installed by changing the SATA controller to ATA mode. Download the correct AHCI driver from support.
The driver should be called “Intel Matrix Storage Manager (OS Pre- Install Driver Only)” or something close to that. Restart the PC and press F8 repeatedly to boot the computer to Safe Mode. Open up the device manager and locate the current SATA controller (Intel(r) ICH1. Family 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller) it will probably show 2 of them. Right click on the first one and select Update Driver. When the wizard pops up select No, not this time > Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) > Don’t Search. I will choose the driver > Have Disk button. Browse to the Drivers you downloaded and select the file named ia. Stor. inf, now uncheck the Show compatible hardware. You should now be presented with a list of drivers, this is where trial and error comes in. You will need to select the correct driver for your chipset. Here is a list of what I have for the AHCI driver for each model. Dell Optiplex 9. 60 – Intel(r) ICH1. D/D0 SATA AHCI Controller. Dell Optiplex 7. 60 – Intel(r)ICH1. D/D0 SATA AHCI Controller. Dell Optiplex 7. 55 – Intel(r) ICH8. R/DO/DH SATA RAID Controller . This should get you back in to Windows normally. Now restart the process at step 2, this time trying a different driver at step 6 and 7.
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