Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 recently.

Today, I installedit on my Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3, and now it’s been 3 hours I’m testing it.

So far, I’m not so happy with it. It’s a bit slower and does not look so different.

Page formattings are different on IE8, as the same websites on IE7 are better looking! Paraghraph indentation is messed up in IE8.

The new Yahoo! Mail interface does not recognize IE8, and if you try to get in anyway, you won’t be able to read your emails because you can’t access the “folders” as such object is not authorized!

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Now You can Download Windows XP SP3 directly from Microsoft!!

That is a standalone service pack 3 update, and is not the whole Windows XP operating system.

I personally do not recommend slipstreaming the service pack, because of few version conflicts on ms dll files.

So just download and install the Service Pack 3 of Windows XP on your system before anyone else!

PLEASE Read throught the article before downloading…

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** UPDATE: New post with new solution for the Windows Delayed Write Failed error message. ** Click Here

I bought a 500GB Western Digital My Book Premium extrenal hard drive. For few days, everything was working fine, but suddenly it started to give the Delayed Wrifte Failed error and my drive was no more accessible. Here’s the error displayed on Windows:Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file X:\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

I Googled a lot but nothing came up.I had to restart the drive, deconnect and reconnect it, to make it work again. But that’s a lot of pain!

Well, before we get to the working solution (for my case), read and see the following :

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