Windows XP

E_FATIFRP.exe is installed by software from Seiko for their printers. Epson is one Seiko brand.

Open the Windows Task Manager using Control-Alt-Del. Select the Processes tab. What do all those lines mean?

Windows XP is so bad that I can only assume one or more of the developers are insane. Why else would they put so much effort into destroying something that works? Microsoft should offer a free upgrade from Windows XP back to Windows 2000.

I have two machines running Windows XP, one standard XP Pro, and the other XP 64 Pro. When I apply small changes to them, XP randomly changes all sorts of unrelated settings. Changes also occur when I am not changing anything. I lose an hour or more each week switching XP from it's latest idiot mode back to the correct settings.

Scribus is a free open source replacement for Microsoft Publisher and similar desktop publishing programs across Linux, Apple Unix (Mac OS X), and Windows.

This article is based on IrfanView 4.27.

VideoLAN VLC 1.0.5 installs in Windows XP 64 as easy as spreading avocado on toast and the results are almost as tasty.

The OpenOffice application is now named OpenOffice.org, leading to confusion between the name of the application and their Web site. There are also lots of downloads to confuse the new user. Outside of those two problems, installation is easy in Windows.

Installation of Apache 2.2 on Windows is almost the same for all versions of Windows. This example shows Windows XP.

MySQL is easy to install on Windows and the installation is almost the same across all versions of Windows.