Safely Shutting Down and Restarting explorer.exe in Windows XP

Published at: 09:02 am - Friday February 15 2008

I saw a recent article on Lifehacker about cleanly shutting down and restarting explorer.exe in Windows Vista. I gave it a try in XP just for the sake of it, and not surprisingly, it did not work.
I did however find a way to do it in Windows XP that I wanted to share with [...]

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A Tale of Two RAID Controllers

Published at: 02:02 pm - Monday February 11 2008

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of a working Promise RAID controller, it was the age of a failed Promise RAID controller…
My motherboard has two on board Sata RAID controllers – one Promise FastTrack 378 controller and one Intel ICH5 controller. They are far [...]

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