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Former Microsoft bloke saves XP SP3 from rebooting

by on16 May 2008

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Should have kept him on staff


A bloke who used to work for Microsoft as a security manager has come up with a tool designed to detect and fix PCs that may be susceptible to "endless reboots" if updated to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).

Jesper Johansson now works at Amazon.com, and posted a link to the tool on his blog yesterday, beating his former employer and Hewlett-Packard to come up with it. 

Johansson's solution uses a 16K VBScript  to check whether the PC is running a processor from AMD;  and if so, examines the Windows registry to see if a device driver meant for Intel-based machines is set to load. If it is, it will offer you an option to disable it.

Users can run the script from the command line.

More here.

Last modified on 16 May 2008
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