STOP: 0×0000007E error after installing SP3 on AMD based systems

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On AMD based computers , after upgrading to Windows XP SP3 the system may continously reboot or report the following error
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer…
Technical information:
*** STOP: […]

Error “There is not enough disk space” when installing SP3

You may experience the following error when installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) when installing on Intel iMAC using Bootcamp to run Windows XP.
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Registry Tweak to control Prefetch in Windows XP

One of the features introduced in Windows XP is called Prefetch wherein Windows caches the boot files and the most recently used application files so as to make Booting the system faster and load the previously loaded applications faster for the simple reason its been cached.
Windows XP prefetch in my words is a “Good Bad […]

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To speed up the Windows […]

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