You upgraded to iOS device to 4.2.1 and now want to be able to print but you don't own one of those new HP printers that support Airprint… You can still print using your PC shared printers following these steps:

1. Download and install iTunes 10.1 from the Apple Website
2. Download "Airprint Enabler.zip": http://www.freddyreyes.com/utilities/dl/?did=42
3. Unzip it
4. Run "Airprint Install 32 Bits.bat"  or "Airprint Install 64 Bits.bat" as administrator (based on your Windows version).
5. Go to C:\Program Files\Airprint or C:\Program Files (x86)\AirPrint\ (if you have Windows 64 Bits) and  double click on the airprint.exe
6. On the Windows Firewall window allow AirPrint to communicate with the networks (Home/Private)

If you are using a USB Skype Box or Skype Diverter you won’t be able to dial any of your contacts from your regular phone.

Until Skype fix this issue; the only option to add/edit speed dial contacts is:

• First download and run Skype protocol tracer: Here
• Second confirm at skype that you allow Tracer.exe access to skype.
• To find out speeddial of a user, type GET USER username SPEEDDIAL in the box below and click on Send command
• To set a new speedial, use command: SET USER username SPEEDDIAL number

The 3D Model of the Great Pyramid Inside Software has been moved to:

http://www.freddyreyes.com/3dpyramid.htm

Please update your bookmarks. I like to try new technologies and change my block with a lot of frequency please use/add the link described above to avoid page not found errors.

• Create Folders:

Create 3 folders – C:XPSP1, C:SP1 and C:XPBOOT

• Copy WinXP:

Copy the entire Windows XP CD into folder C:XPSP1

• Modify files:

You will need to download the SP1a Update, which is around 125MB.

Rename the Service Pack file to XP-SP1a.exe

Extract the Service Pack from the Run Dialog using the command:

C:XP-SP1a.exe -U -X:C:SP1

• Update

Open Start/Run… and type the command:

C:SP1updateupdate.exe -s:C:XPSP1

Click OK

Now the Folder C:XPSP1 contains: Windows XP SP1

How to make a Windows XP SP1 CD Bootable

• Download

Download xpboot and extract it (xpboot.bin) into the folder C:XPBOOT

• Run Nero:

Start Nero – Burning Rom.
Select File > New… from the menu.
1.) Select CD-ROM (Boot)
2.) Select Image file from Source of boot image data
3.) Set Kind of emulation: to No Emulation
4.) Set Load segment of sectors (hex!): to 07C0
5.) Set Number of loaded sectors: to 4
6.) Press the Browse… button

• Copy Files

Select All Files (*.*) from File of type:
Locate boot.bin in the folder C:XPBOOT

• Define ISO

Click ISO tab
Set File-/Directory length to ISO Level 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 chars)
Set Format to Mode 1
Set Character Set to ISO 9660
Check all Relax ISO Restrictions

• ISO information

Click Label Tab
Select ISO9660 from the drop down box.
Enter the Volume Label as WB2PFRE_EN
Enter the System Identifier as WB2PFRE_EN
Enter the Volume Set as WB2PFRE_EN
Enter the Publisher as MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Enter the Data Preparer as MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Enter the Application as WB2PFRE_EN

* For Windows XP Professional OEM substitute WB2PFRE_EN with WXPOEM_EN
* For Windows XP Home OEM substitute WB2PFRE_EN with WXHOEM_EN

• Select Burn:

Click Burn tab
Check Write
Check Finalize CD (No further writing possible!)
Set Write Method to Disk-At-Once

Press New button

• Final steps:

Locate the folder C:WINXPSP1
Select everything in the folder and drag it to the ISO compilation panel.

Click the Write CD Dialog button.

Press Write

That’s it!

The bootdisk has the following menu:

• Boot computer with support for CD-ROM.
• Boot computer without support for CD-ROM.
• Backup/Restore partition/drive with Ghost.
• Restore partition/drive with Ghost from CD.

Restart your computer with the floppy in drive A, select “1. Boot computer with support for CD-ROM.” if everything goes right, you’ll get the following error message: FindCD was unable to detect a bootable CD. This is normal since we haven’t made a bootable Ghost CD yet. The trick is that you don’t get any other error messages. If everything works fine, we’re ready to create a Backup.

Creating Ghost Images

Ghost run’s only in FULL DOS MODE thus not from within a Windows DOS box, that’s why you have created the bootdisk in previous section.
There are many options to Backup partitions/drives with Ghost, like cloning partitions from HDD 1 to HDD 2, cloning drives HDD 1 to HDD 2 etc.
In the following example we will clone P-1 (partition 1) of HDD 1 (hard drive 1) to P-2 (partition 2) of HDD 1 (hard drive 1) using a splitted image, autoname and high compress them.
If you check out the autoexec.bat file of the bootdisk, you will find a line that starts the Ghost program it looks like this :

GHOST.EXE -split=640 – autoname -z9

What exactly does it means :

-split=640 : split the image in parts of 640 MB, so that they fit onto a CD-R/RW;
-autoname : automatically names the splitted parts of the image so that you don’t have to type the name anymore;
-z9 : this parameter tells ghost to high compress the image.

If you have version 6.5 of Ghost or later you will have to change the “-autoname” to “-auto” since the -autoname is used in Ghost PE (Personal Edition).

Now we’re ready to make a backup now…

Backup Partition 1 – Hard Drive 1 to an Image file on Partition 2 – Hard Drive 1

• Boot your computer with the Bootdisk in drive A: select menu item 3. Backup/Restore partition/drive with Ghost.
• You’ll see the driver loading for the mouse and see the line Loading Ghost…
• You’ll get to the welcome screen of Ghost, click OK.
• From the menu select : Local > Partition > To Image
• The dialog box Select local source drive by clicking on the drive number appears. This dialog box displays every disk, Ghost can find on the local machine. Select drive 1 and click OK
• The dialog box Select source partitions from basic drive: 1 appears. This dialog box displays every partition on the selected drive. Select partition 1 and click OK
• Click on the black arrow and select the destination partition, it will have drive letter D:
• NOTE: if you run WinNT/2000/XP and the source partition has been formatted with the NTFS file format then partition 2 will have drive letter C: this is normal, because DOS doesn’t recognize NTFS file formats.
• Click on drive D: you will now see the contents of partition 2.
• Make a new directory and hit this button name the directory Backup and hit enter.
• Click on the folder we’ve just created (Backup) and in the box “File name:” type Backup (this is the image’s filename). Now click the button Save. You’ll see a dialog box Proceed with partition dump?
• Check and double check the details before you click Yes. If you follow these guidelines, the details should look like this:
• Connection type: Local
• Source partition: Type: b [FAT32] [file system type), 20000 MB (size of partition in MB), 5000 MB (size in MB used on this partition), Windows (name of the partition)
• From local drive [1] 40000 MB (size of drive in MB)
• Destination file: Local file D:Backup.GHO (name of image file)
• Now click Yes. The dumping process starts…
• After the dump is completed, you’ll get the dialog box Dump completed, click continue > QUIT > Yes
• You’ve made a Backup from P-1 HDD-1 to an image file on P-2 HDD-1. The image file is located in the directory : D: and the name is : Backup.GHO
• Since we’ve had the Images split in parts of 640 MB the second file is Backup0001.GHS, the third one would be : Backup.GHS and so on, depending on how much data we had to backup on partition 1.

Restoring Ghost Images

• Restoring Partition 1 – Hard Drive 1 from an Image file on Partition 2 – Hard Drive 1
• Boot your computer with the Bootdisk in drive A: select menu item 3. Backup/Restore partition/drive with Ghost.
• You’ll see the driver loading for the mouse and the line Loading Ghost…
• You’ll get to the welcome screen of Ghost, click OK.
• From the menu select : Local > Partition > From Image
• The dialog box File name to load image from appears. Click the black arrow and select the source drive where you have created the image (it should be D:) go to the folder where the image is located (it should be Backup) click on the image file (it should be Backup.GHO)
• The dialog box Select source partition from image file appears. Click 1 and hit OK
• The dialog box Select local destination drive by clicking on the drive number appears. Click 1 and hit OK
• The dialog box Select destination partition from basic drive:1 appears. Click 1 and hit OK
• IMPORTANT: Before you click Yes, check and double check the details.
• Connection type: Local
• Source partition: Type: b [FAT32] [file system type),10000 MB (partition size in MB), 3000 MB (used MB), Diskload (Ghost load command)
• From local file D:Backup.GHO (file and folder where the image is located), 640 MB (size of image file in MB)
• Destination file: Type: b [FAT32] [file system type), 20000 MB (size of partition in MB), 5000 MB (size in MB used on this partition), Windows (name of the partition), from local drive [1] 40000 MB (size of drive in MB)
• Now click Yes. The loading process starts…
• The split Images Backup0001.GHS and Backup0002.GHS will automatically be loaded.
• After the load is completed, you’ll get the dialog box Clone complete, take out the bootdisk and click reset computer.
• You’ve restored P-1 HDD-1 from an image file on P-2 HDD-1.
• The question dialog box Proceed with partition load? – Destination partition will be permanently overwritten. appears.

Restoring Partition or Drive from Bootable CD

• First you have to make a bootable CD, how-to do that is described in the next section (Creating a bootable Ghost CD).
• Boot your computer with the Ghost Bootable CD in your first CD player (the one who has been set to MASTER), select menu item 4. Restore partition/drive with Ghost from CD and hit enter.
• You’ll see the drivers loading for the CD players, the mouse and the line Loading Ghost…
• The Question dialog box Proceed with partition load? – Destination partition will be permanently overwritten. Appears.
• Click Yes. (If you had altered the batch file (rest.bat) with the parameter -sure, this question dialog box will not appear. Now Ghost is restoring the partition from the bootable CD.
• After the load is completed, you’ll get the dialog box Clone complete, take out the bootable CD and click reset computer.

Creating a bootable Ghost CD

On the bootdisk there’s a little batch file, called Rest.bat. This batch file, when it is burned onto a CD-R/RW with the program Ghost.exe and the image file Backup.GHO, loads Ghost and tell it to extract the file Backup.GHO to your hard drive (P1-HDD1). If you look at the batch you will see this line :

GHOST.EXE -clone,MODE=pload,SRC=%CDROM%Backup.GHO:1,DST=1:1

What exactly does it means:

-clone,MODE=pload : sets Ghost in restore mode;
SRC=%CDROMBKUP.GHO:1 : points to the location where the image is on the CD-ROM;
:1 : means partition 1 from the image file;
DST=1:1 : means hard drive 1 partition 1, in other words C:

If you have Ghost 6.5 or later, you could get a step further and eliminate the “Are you sure you want to continue” message and make Ghost restores fully automatically. Just add to the line the parameter -sure. The line will then look like this:

GHOST.EXE -clone,MODE=pload,SRC=%CDROM%Backup.GHO:1,DST=1:1 –sure

Let’s Burn the Bootable CD

You can use NERO to burn the Images, you can obtain Nero from Ahead Nero, but you could also use other burn software (like EasyCD Creator from Roxio), as long as it supports the making of bootable CD’s. Put the Bootdisk in drive A: and launch Nero, choose from the New Compilation menu: CD-ROM (Boot). If Nero starts with the Wizard, close it and choose New from the file menu.

• On the boot tab select Bootable logical drive (must fit on CD). In the drop down box select A:2 MB. Hit the new button.
• Now drag & drop Rest.bat, the Ghost executable Ghost.exe (from drive A:) and the image BKUP.GHO (from the folder D:). If your Images exists out of more parts, due to the split parameter, just place them on the next CD’s, these CD’s don’t need to be bootable, since Ghost will ask you to insert next medium when the first part is loaded and so on, till the load process is completed.

NOTE: rest.bat and ghost.exe must be in the root of the CD, otherwise FindCD can not identify the bootable Ghost CD. If you have the Ghost PE (Personal Edition), you must rename GHOSTPE.EXE to GHOST.EXE, because otherwise it won’t work.

If you are satisfied with the contents of the CD, then click from the file menu Write CD.

• Check the settings and hit the button Write. The bootdisk must be in drive A: and a blank CD-R/RW in the CD-writer.
• Now Nero is burning the Ghost bootable CD. If you followed all instructions the bootable CD should work fine. But you better try it first onto a CD-RW disk.

Slipstreaming is usually done on network shares on corporate systems. But with the advent of CD burners, it does actually make some sense for the home user or small business user to do the same.

Microsoft added the ability to Slipstream a Service Pack to Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It not only has the advantage that when you (re)install your OS, you don’t have to apply the Service Pack later, also if you update any Windows component later, you’ll be sure that you get the correct installation files if Windows needs any.

1- How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 2

First you have to download the (full) “Network Install” of the Service Pack from Microsoft (English version [266 MB]), and save it to a directory (folder) on your hard drive (in my case E:WINXP-SP2).

Next copy your Windows XP CD to your hard drive. Just create a folder (I used XP-CD), and copy all the contents of your Windows XP CD in that folder.

Next, open the Dos Command Prompt (Start > Run > cmd), and go to the folder where you downloaded SP2 (cd foldername). Type the command: servicepack filename /integrate:drive/path. In my example the command is WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU /integrate:E:XP-CD.

If you get the error:

This service pack can't be integrated error

This is caused by the fact that your Windows XP CD contains updates that will be automatically installed when you run setup. This type of CD’s will usually be from larger OEM suppliers (like Dell, HP, or others).

You cannot use this type of CD to create a slipstreamed SP2 install.

First, the files will be extracted, and next they will be integrated in your Windows XP files:

Updating Windows Share

When ready, you should get a confirmation. Windows XP Service Pack 2 has now been Slipstreamed into your original Windows XP files.

Slipstream Completed

2- How to create a Bootable CD

For this part you can use IsoBuster and Nero Burning ROM 6 (make sure you have the latest version, but at least 5.5.9.0).

After you install IsoBuster, you can choose to use only the product’s free functionality for what we want to do, IsoBuster will look like the image below (you need to have your original Windows XP CD in the CD-ROM drive).

Start to extract the boot loader from the original Windows XP CD. Using IsoBuster, select the “folder” Bootable CD, and right-click Microsoft Corporation.img. From the menu choose Extract Microsoft Corporation.img, and extract it to the folder on your hard drive where you have your Windows XP files (E:XP-CD in my case).

Extract Boot Image

Next, start Nero Burning ROM, and choose CD-ROM (Boot) in the New Compilation window. On the Boot tab, select Image file under Source of boot image data, and browse to the location of the Microsoft Corporation.img file. Also enable Expert Settings, choosing No Emulation, and changing the Number of loaded sectors to 4 (otherwise it won’t boot!)

Nero Boot Settings

The ISO tab should be configured correctly as shown below:

Nero ISO Settings

If you have an older version of Nero you won’t have the option Do Not Add “;1″ ISO file version extention under Relax ISO Restrictions. You won’t be able to boot your new CD, so update Nero!

You can configure the Label tab to your liking, I would however recommend that you keep the Volume Label the same as on your original Windows XP CD. Here are some (English) Labels:

• Windows XP Professional: WXPCCP_EN
• Windows XP Home: WXHCCP_EN
• Windows XP Professional OEM: WXPOEM_EN
• Windows XP Home OEM: WXHOEM_EN

Nero Label Settings

Next press New, and from the File Browser window, select the files and folders from your slipstreamed location (in my case E:XP-CD). Now drag & drop the selected files in the ISO1 window.

Copy Files

Next, burn your new CD.

Burn

Done! You now have a Bootable, Slipstreamed Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD!

Once you restart your machine, MDM creates 2 temp files (every time) in your Windows folder.

For example, the file name may be similar to:
“fffeeecf_{44BE8B61-235B-11D2-8E66-D59A4E66D32D}.tmp”

MDM loads itself via the Registry:

View this entry in Msconfig | Startup
Machine Debug Manager c:windowssystemmdm.exe

All Users HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunServices

Also in Internet Explorer:

Additionally, if the system has Internet Explorer version 5 or later, Mdm.exe can still be configured to start at the startup of WinME/XP or, if the script debugging feature in Internet Explorer is turned on. You can turn off this feature within Internet Explorer.

• On the Tools menu, click Internet Options | Advanced.
• Disabling MDM and Script error pop-ups
• Place a check in Disable script debugging
• Next, uncheck: Display a notification about every script error.
• Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Task Manager.
• Highlight the entry for MDM, click End Task. (see above)
• Once you’ve done that, Start – Search – Files or Folders for mdm.exe, once located right-click and select: Rename and rename it. (example – mdm.old) Do the same for: pdm.dll [Process Debug Manager] (pdm.old) if it exists?

Now it’s time to go play in the Registry:

Open Regedit and scroll down to the following key:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunServices
• Highlight the entry in the left pane, click Registry (up top) select: Export
• Highlight the entry for mdm.exe (right pane) right-click and select: Delete.
• Open the following key and verify these entries are correct:
• HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain
• “Disable Script Debugger”=”yes”
• “Error Dlg Displayed On Every Error”=”no”
• Close Regedit. Next, Start – Run (type) “msconfig” (no quotes)
• Click on the Startup tab and uncheck the entry for mdm.exe, click Apply, reboot.

Note: on restart, don’t forget to delete all the temp files from MDM.

Exceptions

If another application reinstalls Mdm.exe, or if Mdm.exe /Regserver is run on a computer that is running Window ME/XP, Mdm.exe is re-added to the RunServices registry key.

NOTE: Running the Detect and Repair feature within Office XP/2K causes Mdm.exe to be re-registered on the system.