The stealth Update that Microsoft released back in August isn’t quite as harmless as the company claims.
Ever since the Redmond company’s recent download of new support files for Windows Update, users of XP’s repair function have been unable to install the latest 80 patches from Microsoft.
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By default, WinRAR will only associate files with extenions RAR, R00, R01 till R29, how about the rest?
WinRAR switches to new name scheme for quite some time, which use part1.rar, part2.rar etc. as extensions. However, you can find lots of files, still compressed using the old name, extensions from R00 to R99(then S00 to S99 and so on).
By default, WinRAR will only associate till R29 and left the rest as “unknown file type”. Here is the simple tip to solve this issue and let RAR handle them all.
To do this, just open a command prompt and type
for /L %d in (30,1,99) do assoc .r%d=WinRAR
This will associate R30, R31 till R99 with WinRAR.
If you are using Vista, you need to do this from an elevated command prompt, refer to my earlier post for more info.
Installing SP1 requires lots of space, and might hinder many from adopting the latest update.
Per Microsoft’s claim, installing the service pack will require a large amount of free disk space (7 GB for x86 and 12 GB for x64). From my own experience, at least 6GB is required to install SP1 on x86. However, its possible to experience SP1 with less effort–only 3G is required now.
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