Category: Troubleshooting

  • How To Recover Files From Corrupted/Scratched CD/DVD

    I was at my friend’s place and we have taken a CD ROM disk to watch a movie together. When I inserted the CD in my laptop’s drive and started playing in Windows Media Player, it gave an error that the media seems to be corrupt and Windows Media Player cannot play the file. VCD…

  • How To Get Rid Of Script Errors In Internet Explorer

    It’s always annoying when one gets script errors in Internet Explorer continuously. I have faced this situation many times and get frustrated if I have to reload the webpage again and again. Script debugging is only useful for developers but is annoying for normal people who only want to surf the internet. It’s of no…

  • How To Remove Flashy.exe Virus

    A reader of Technize asked me about how to remove flashy.exe virus. First of all let’s see what exactly is flashy.exe. It’s a type of backdoor trojan for Windows Platform that tries to take control of the infected system. It runs a telnet server on the infected computer. It also changes the administrator password to…

  • Monitor Does not Turn on After Resuming from Standby in Windows

    Following is the question asked by harikrishna in Technize Forums: sir iam having one probelm in my laptop that is after it is going to the standby state it is not again coming to the actual state so whenever it go to standby mode iam shutdown the system by using battery every time battery is…

  • Windows Task Manager Alternatives

    Chiranjib, our regular reader, was asking me continuously to suggest some alternatives to the default Windows system tools that are usually disabled in case of a virus attack. So I thought I would just write about all the tools I know which are helpful in troubleshooting a system. It will be a series of articles,…

  • How To Remove W32.sillyFDC Virus

    Yesterday a friend of my came to my desk and asked me to copy some pictures. I inserted his USB flash drive and woosh — Virus alert says my Antivirus. For more information about which antivirus I use, please see this article. I wrote down the virus name and went to his computer to see…

  • Cannot View SHTML File From Your Computer Locally

    SHTML is an extension for web pages that contain server side includes meaning that the content can be inserted dynamically in the web pages. Prior to Windows XP, viewing of SHTML pages locally was enabled by default. But Windows XP does not enable the viewing of SHTML pages by default. So if you try to…

  • Cannot Drag/Drop Icons Or Files On Desktop Or In Windows Explorer

    While I was working on a new network of a new company, after installing and configuring all the Server and Client Windows Operating systems, I noticed that there was one system with Windows XP on which I couldn’t drag/drop icons or files on the desktop. It was just like hung. I googled for a solution…

  • See Which Items Are Delaying Windows Startup

    It’s really very frustrating when Windows is very slow at startup. And this is the thing we can’t do anything about. I mean when Windows is starting up, there is no way to see what Windows is doing in the background. Infact Windows does alot of things during startup. When something in those startup routine…

  • Rename Multiple Files At Once – Changing The Extensions

    Previously I had posted about Bitdefender renaming the files with .bd.ren extension. Many people have asked me that my solution is working perfectly fine but the problem is that lots n lots of files have been renamed by Bitdefender. So it’s almost impossible to rename them back to original one by one. Here I’m describing…