Windows XP and USB hubs

Yesterday, my work Windows XP machine decided to give up to cooperate with any USB hubs, and that includes my KVM switch. The problem seems to be a driver problem. It was solved by "borrow" usb.inf and usbhub.sys from another XP machine.

Windows and Locale

A friend of mine need to install a non-English locale, however Windows kept complain. It turned out the problem was caused by a corrupted intl.inf file in the windows/inf folder. To solve the problem, you simply get a health intl.inf file from a Winodws machine, and overwrite the trouble one.

overwrite standard set up computer's c:\windows\inf\intl.inf
to your problematic c:\windows\inf\intl.inf