{"id":60,"date":"2007-01-19T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-01-19T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T16:51:18","slug":"howto-make-windows-xp-unusable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/howto-make-windows-xp-unusable\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO Make Windows XP unusable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA friend of mine was cleaning out what he thought was cruft from his<br \/>\n<tt>c:\\Windows\\System32<\/tt> directory when he deleted <tt>oembios.dat<\/tt>. His computer failed<br \/>\nto boot after that, and a system restore disk didn&#8217;t help. Although he could boot into a command prompt, he couldn&#8217;t boot up in safe mode. He fixed the problem<br \/>\nby copying an <tt>oembios.dat<\/tt> file from another computer. Read more about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsifaq.com\/SF\/Tips\/Tip.aspx?id=8521\">here<\/a>. The <tt>oembios.dat<\/tt> file may be related to Windows <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Product_activation\">Product Activation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine was cleaning out what he thought was cruft from his c:\\Windows\\System32 directory when he deleted oembios.dat. His computer failed to boot after that, and a system restore disk didn&#8217;t help. Although he could boot into a command prompt, he couldn&#8217;t boot up in safe mode. He fixed the problem by copying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/howto-make-windows-xp-unusable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOWTO Make Windows XP unusable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}