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If you have a Technet subscription, you can get early access to Windows XP Service Pack 3 from the Technet Subscriptions page. Scroll down the page and look for the grey “Top Downloads” section.

I’ve been running it for a few days now and haven’t had any problems

If you don’t have a Microsoft Technet subscription – which I highly recommend – you can probably find a direct download link around somewhere.

How to slipstream Service Pack 3 into Microsoft Office Project 2003

These instructions apply to Project 2003 Standard Edition. To slipstream other versions, you’ll need to replace PRJSTDE.MSI with the name of the MSI for your Project Edition.

Steps

You’ll need a Volume Licence Key setup CD.

D:\setup.exe /a

Save to C:\project2003\

Download Project 2003 SP3

Extract its contents to C:\Project2003SP3\ with:

Project2003SP3-KB923622-FullFile-ENU.exe /Q /C /T:C:\Project2003SP3\

Perform slipstream with:

msiexec /p C:\Project2003SP3\PROJECTSP3.msp /a C:\Project2003\PRJSTDE.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

Delete the C:\Project2003SP3\ folder as you no longer need it

One of the biggest issues with Truecrypt 5.0′s System Partition encryption was that it couldn’t hibernate the OS; which was holding me back from deploying it company-wide. Thankfully, this is now fixed in 5.1

Support for hibernation on computers where the system partition is encrypted (previous versions of TrueCrypt prevented the system from hibernating when the system partition was encrypted). (Windows Vista/XP/2008/2003)

Other things of note include faster encryption/decryption using AES, and faster boot times.

[ Version History ] [ Download Trucrypt 5.1 ]

Ever wanted to download all of the fantastically useful Sysinternals tools in one go? Well, now you can. Mark Russinovich has created a bundle pack which includes all of the Sysinternals tools in one single Zip file.

Download the Sysinternals Utility Pack

[Found on Desktop-Engineer, when I was looking for something else entirely ]

This used to do my head in until I found this little tip on Lifehacker.

Picture this: You’re consolidating your digital music collection from numerous locations to a single directory on a networked drive. To save time, you don’t want to replace existing files as these are most likely duplicates, and network transfers are often slow. Unfortunately, when Windows pops up and asks you whether you want to replace the existing file, it gives you every option you’d like apart from the most useful: “No to all”.

To tell Windows “No to all”, hold down Shift while clicking No, and it will apply to all replacements for that transaction

This will also work when Windows asks whether you want to move Read-only Files or not.