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There are two SATA controllers on the motherboard. The Intel SATA interface and the Gigabyte (JMicron) SATA interface. In order for AHCI to work with the Intel SATA interface, you must install the drivers at Windows install time or you can perform a hack after Windows is installed. Here is what you need to do [...]

Robocopy is a Windows Server Resource Kit command line tool that allow you to copy files and folders while maintaining ACLs. In addition it allows you to copy files across networks with fault tolerance capabilities – if the network connection is disrupted, the copy operation will continue where it left off when the connection is [...]

The Windows XP prefetch cache is a cache meant to speed up the launch of programs by keeping the first few bytes of a program on disk in order to have them preloaded before the user launched the program. Only commonly used programs are cached in the prefetch. You can use the prefetch cache to [...]

Update: These instructions still work when installing the recently released Zune 2.5 software. Microsoft currently does not support Zune software being installed on Windows XP Professional x64. The only 64-bit operating system the software officially supports is Vista 64-bit edition. However there is a hack to get the Zune 2 software to work with Windows [...]


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