Boot with the BartPE CD

• run regedit
• Select the HKEY_USERS hive
• rom the File menu, choose the Load Hive option. Browse to your Windows installation drive, for example the following location: C:\Windows\System32\Config\
• Select the file named SOFTWARE (the file without any extensions), and click Open
• Type a name for the hive that you’ve loaded now. (Example: MyXPHive)
• Now the SOFTWARE hive is loaded, and present under the HKEY_USERS base hive.
• In order to fix the Userinit value in the loaded hive, navigate to the following location: HKEY_USERS \ MyXPHive \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon
• Double-click Userinit and set it’s value correctly. Example: Set it’s data as follows: C:\Windows\System32\Userinit.exe,
• After entering the correct data, you MUST unload the Hive. To do so, select MyXPHive branch, and then in the File menu, choose Unload Hive. It’s important to note that you’ll need to select the MyXPHive branch first, before unloading it.

path=%PATH%;c:\xampp\mysql\bin

mysql -u root

CREATE DATABASE database;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database.*  TO “username”@”hostname” IDENTIFIED BY “password”;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT

notepad config.php
<<update configuration>>

http://localhost/wordpressdir

First you need to set up the backend to allow it to communicate

You first need to stop the mythtv backend which is currently running, at the root prompt enter:

/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop

You can also stop the mysql server, enter:

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

You need to edit the my.cnf file and add a '#' symbol in front of the line 'bind address' to allow the front end to access the mysql database:

nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Samba allows you to access your MythTV box via Windows or Macintosh computers on your network. It is already configured to share the /myth directory, but is not set to start on boot. Therefore, all you actually need to do to begin using samba is to start it up. Open an Xterm window, su to root, and start the daemon:

su

/etc/init.d/samba start

However, if you want to avoid doing this each time you restart your MythTV box, do the following to set samba to start up automatically (as su):

update-rc.d samba defaults

Make sure you back up first because it is a destructive restore

””To use PC Restore:

1 Turn on the computer. During the boot process, a blue bar with www.dell.com appears at the top of the screen.

2 Immediately upon seeing the blue bar, press CTRL-F11. If you do not press in time, let the computer finish restarting, and then restart the computer again.”’

Sometimes the dialog that asks ‘Home, Work, Public’ is an unnecessary feature if you only use your laptop is secure areas. Create the following key without any value to disable this feature
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\NewNetworkWindowOff

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B33B1DFF-6F50-411D-BBDF-82019DDA602E&displaylang=en

1) Put your XP CD in the CD Drive.

2) Start > Run (Where D: is your CD drive letter)

EXPAND /r “D:i386SPOOLSV.EX_ C:WindowsSystem32

3) Start > Run

SPOOLSV.EXE /install

This normally occcurs when Vista searches for external monitors on startup of Vista.  If you are not using an external monitor…turn TMM off.

Start->control panel (Classic)->administrative tools->task scheduler.

Expand “Task Scheduler Library”…  “Microsoft”…  “Windows”…  “MobilePC”

Click “TMM”, and on the right-hand side, click “Disable”

If you find you can load a company file locally, but not over a network share, your DNS server / router may be the problem.

You can confirm this by determining the ip address of the computer with the file (eg: \CATHY ) and finding out it’s ip address using ipconfig on that machine.

Then try and access the machine using the ip address (eg: \192.168.1.101 )  If it works, complain to your IT department, or in my case Telus.