Yeh! It’s Friday again. I’m hella bored at work, so I thought of something fun to do: I changed my windows logon sound to the one from Windows 95.

Download the sound in WAV format. Why don’t you do it too!?

I’ve been messing with Ubuntu these few days. Because at work, we’re working on a LTS project. Where all the terminals will boot from the linux terminal server then logon to Citrix. Instead of having hard drives on every machine. Dude, this isn’t new anymore. A lot of corporations has been using this method for years now.

But, my company is poor! OK? we’re in the gethoo!

I thought Media Center has the same features as XP Professional, but I tried to join my domain network at home and it wouldn’t allow me to.

After a little research on google, I found out Media Center can actually join a domain network by tweaking the registry a little. That’s right! Windows XP Media Center joins domain network!

Insert Windows XP CD.
Start > Run > X:i386winnt32.exe /cmdcons
(replace X: with the appropiate drive letter)
Acknowledge prompt by clicking ‘Yes’
Skip updating process by clicking ‘Cancel’ or by pressing ‘Esc’
After installation, acknowledge success msg. by clicking ‘Ok’
Start > Shutdown > Restart
At boot menu, select ‘Microsoft Windows Recovery Console’
Select proper installation to log onto (default: 1) and press ‘Enter’
(If prompted, enter Administrator password and press ‘Enter’)
Type (without quotes) and press enter: ‘cd system32config’
Type (without quotes) and press enter: ‘copy SYSTEM C:’
Type (without quotes) and press enter: exit
At boot menu, select ‘Windows XP Media Center Edition’
Start > Run > Type: ‘regedit’ and press enter
Click on ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’
File > Load Hive…
Browse and select C:SYSTEM
Specify key name ‘BANANA’ and click OK
Expand: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > BANANA > WPA > MedCtrUpg
On the right-hand side, double-click IsLegacyMCE value
Change selected value to 1 and click Ok. (THAT IS NOT AN L!)
Click on BANANA subkey (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
File > Unload Hive. Confirm.
Start > Shutdown > Restart
At boot menu, select ‘Microsoft Windows Recovery Console’
Select proper installation to log onto (default: 1) and press ‘Enter’
(If prompted, enter Administrator password and press ‘Enter’)
Type (without quotes) and press enter: ‘cd ‘
Type (without quotes) and press enter: ‘copy SYSTEM C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM’
(Yes, you want to overwrite - Go ahead and do it)
Type (without quotes) and press enter: ‘del SYSTEM’
Type (without quotes) and press enter: ‘exit’
At boot menu, select ‘Windows XP Media Center Edition’
Join domain.