HP G60 Drivers for Windows XP (HP G60-235dx)

Notes:

• You need WinRAR to extract some of the files, so make sure you have it installed.
• Before you begin the installation, you need to slipstream the SATA AHCI drivers (only ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller) with nLite. The instructions on how to do it are here.
• Please note that you’ll see a black screen for about 1-2 minutes while the Windows XP setup files are loading. This is probably an issue with the new 16:9 displays.
• Audio and Modem driver must be installed using Device Manager, by manually specifying the location of the of the driver’s INF file and forcing it to install, although XP will give you a warning that you are not using the correct drivers.
• If you have Unknown Devices (buttons drivers) » here (Installation –> right click machine.inf, choose install)

Via HP Support Forums user Daniel_Potyrala.

Windows XP (32bit) drivers for HP Pavilion DV6000 CTO

If you want to downgrade Vista and install Windows XP on your HP Pavilion DV6000, here is a collection of drivers for this operating system.

The characteristics vary from one variant of this model to another, but here are the general specifications:

• AMD Turion 64, dual core processor
• nForce4 Chipset
• 512MB / 1GB / 2 GB DDR2 memory
• 15.4″ WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
• 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 6150/7200
• 80/160 GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
• LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support
• 1.3 Megapixel Webcam with mic built into screen
• Altec Lansing speakers built in
• 3 USB ports, ExpressCard/54 Slot, S-Video, IR, RJ-11, RJ-45, WLAN, Bluetooth

Download here. You need WinRAR to extract the archive.

Checked from viruses and other malicious programs with ESET Smart Security 3.

Also, check out my post on Windows XP drivers for Toshiba Satellite L300-110 and the instructions on how to intergrate AHCI drivers into Windows XP installation disk with nLite.

Change Collation On All Tables And Columns In MySQL with Phoca Changing Collation Utility

I was working with lot of databases collated in latin1_swedish_ci lately. I needed to convert the structure to utf8 collation, but it was very time-consuming to convert all the tables and all the columns manually.

After some googling, I managed to find a PHP utility, called Phoca Changing Collation, which does all the dirty work in a few seconds.

• Download: http://www.phoca.cz/phoca-changing-collation/
• Download mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmrzznjnddj

Important: The utility doesn’t convert data, it only changes the collation of the tables and the columns, so if your database is full of non-latin characters, it will probably corrupt them.

Note: You may need to change the collation to utf8_unicode_ci in order to get the cyrilic characters displayed propertly.

Toshiba Satellite L300 Drivers for Windows XP (Toshiba Satellite L300-110 / PSLB0E)

For all of you who want to downgrade from Windows 7 or Windows Vista and install Windows XP on your Toshiba Satellite L300-110 laptop, I made a driver pack which work perfectly on this operating system. Toshiba doesn’t offer official WinXP drivers for this laptop, but I did my best to find them and to collect them in one package.

Use Unlocker to unlock your files

Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows?

It has many other flavors:

• Cannot delete file: Access is denied
• There has been a sharing violation.
• The source or destination file may be in use.
• The file is in use by another program or user.
• Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

The solution to your problems is Unlocker – free and easy to use utility which allows you to delete and rename files that have been locked by some application or the operating system.

Download Unlocker 1.8.7

Troubleshooting network authentication problems in Vista

Because Microsoft decided to enable NTLMv2 by default in Vista, it is very likely that you have received Authentication Error when you were trying to connect to older machines which don’t have NTLMv2 enabled (Windows XP, Windows 2000 and some older versions of Windows have NTLMv1 enabled by default).

These three .reg files might help you to solve the problem:

• Send LM and NTLM Responses (send NTLMv2 when negotiated) – recommended
• Send LM and NTLM Responses
• To restore the default Vista setting, use this file: Send NTLMv2 only

Don’t forget to restart your computer once the reg file is merged into the registry. Note: If you have Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, you can also use Start -> Run -> secpol.msc and under Local Policies -> Security Options look for Network security: LAN Manager authenication level.