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  1. Sorry to poke my nose in Roffen, but if you move an XP system drive to another motherboard ("machine"), you may find you get a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) error on boot up. There are workarounds for this if you do a 'doogle' search. But you may find you have to do a repair install over the top to sort out addressing issues. There may be activation issues to deal with as well depending on your xp version. Either way, you will have a less than perfect operating system, with unnecessary conflicts lurking for you in the future. If I have misunderstood your posting, please forgive me. Regards, ®ich
  2. USP4 Users with .NET Framework 4 enabled might want to read this from harkaz. Regards, ®
  3. @Sophy Click this Click Here to open a dell pdf of the owners manual. Check out p127 how to enter System Setup (ie BIOS). Switch the PC power on and immediately press the F2 key repeatedly as quick as you can (frenzied tapping!), until the BIOS screen is shown. The PC should beep in protest at the repeated pressing but it will work, eventually. PS: It is not a problem to leave the CD/DVD rom drive as the first boot device anyway, as long as the drive doesn't contain a bootable disk in it. Regards, ®
  4. Wow, I can only dream of such a CPU! I'm sure that there will be more qualified members who could run you through the Processes and Overhead diagnostic methods to check your system. However, I can advise on certain matters regarding the USP4 installation. A little more than a year ago, I became aware of the harkaz USP4 v2 and installed it on top of my SP3 system. I too noticed that my system was fractionally slower than previously (Not a big deal, but I noticed it). When I checked my Task Manager, I noticed that "mscorsvw.exe" was hogging a lot of cpu time. Harkaz has documented this and the solution was to run from an elevated cmd prompt "ngen.exe executeQueuedItems" from the .NET folder which is applicable. I'm not suggesting this is your problem, but a search through Task Manager for any 'busy' programs might show what is hogging your cpu. Ideally at rest the "System Idle Process" should be using 99% of your CPU. Have a look when your system is idling and there is little or no hard disk activity and see what you can find. Anyway back to my experiences with USP4: I have the luxury of having spare hard drives and so I had to try a fresh installation from a slipstreamed USP4 USB source. An almost unbelievable change in speed was noticed. The point of this story is to report that you can apply USP4 over an existing XP installation and you should be happy. But if you can, slipstream USP4 into your source XP installation files using the 'integrate' switch and create a usb bootable installation (I used WinSetupFromUSB as nLite didn't work for me). If I can encourage you to create your usb bootable media on your existing XP machine and test the installation on a spare drive you will not regret it. Regards, ®
  5. @Roffen The following is from the USP4 Readme posted by harkaz in his cloud folder: --------------------------------- "Removing Service Pack 4 You can use Add or Remove Programs to remove SP4 and restore your computer to its previous state. Uninstallation is possible only if you have chosen to archive system files during Windows XP SP4 setup. To remove Service Pack 4 by using Add or Remove Programs Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Add or Remove Programs, click Windows XP Service Pack 4, and then click Remove. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. Important If you started but then canceled Windows XP SP4 removal wizard you MUST check if the %systemroot%\system32\catroot2tmp folder exists. If it does, stop Cryptographic Services and move all its contents to the %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 folder (replace existing files). Finally, restart Cryptographic Services. If the folder is not there, restart your computer IMMEDIATELY. If you choose to remove SP4, a dialog box displays a list of the programs that you installed after you installed SP4. If you continue with the removal, these programs might not work correctly. After removing SP4, you will be unable to access any exFAT formatted drives unless you had installed the required update before installing Windows XP SP4." --------------------------------- I would love to hear why you would want to remove the service pack. I would also caution you that your PC will not be as secure with the service pack removed. Additionally, depending what tweaks you have done (pre and post SP4 installation), you might have some unexpected/undesired results. Regards, ®
  6. @harkaz Thank you for the reg info, it worked perfectly. Just for info: the "sp4_march16_wufix.reg" file in your cloud folder addresses -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WindowsEmbedded Your manual registry edit addresses ...\CurrentControlSet\... I manually edited the latter path and it worked. Thanks again ®
  7. That PosReady registry entry is included and you do not have to apply it manually. Once USP4 v3.1 is up and running you'll be 'good to go'.
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