Archive for March, 2006

Analyze and Defragment buttons in Disk Defragmenter do not work

DCom Server Process Launcher (DComLaunch) service was introduced in Windows XP SP2. One of the major side-effects user face after disabling the DComLaunch service is that the Disk Defragmenter console fails to operate. The Analyze and Defragment buttons do not work. Also, launching the console Defrag (defrag.exe) utility causes the following error:

12Mar2006 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | Continued

Saving Windows Updates

Q:   I wonder if there is any way so that i can take a backup of the service packs which have been downloaded and installed using windows update feature so that I can apply them again later in case I have to reinstall (clean install) XP again. So that I need not have to download [...]

2Mar2006 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | Continued