Category: Windows

  • How To Eject USB Devices Safely

    When ejecting a USB device, you may get the following error message: The device ‘generic volume’cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later. This error usually comes because some files from the USB device are being used or open by some running process. You can’t eject the device until you close all…

  • How To Enable or Disable Thumbs.db In Windows

    Thumbs.db is a database file which stores the thumbnails of all pictures and videos in a folder so that Windows doesn’t have to create the thumbnails every time the folder is opened. I don’t use the thumbnails view most of the time as I’m not dealing with pictures all the time. So I prefer to…

  • Diagnose Your Network Problems In Windows XP

    The computers which are on the network counter a lot of network problems from time to time. Windows Vista has a cool function of diagnosing the network problems automatically and informing about the possible causes. Windows XP also includes a network diagnostics utility which is hidden. So you have to digg in Windows system folders…

  • My Documents Folder Opens At Windows Startup

    One of our regular readers Chiranjib has asked that why My Documents folder opens at Windows Startup. Here’s his question: My documents opens automatically when computer is booted. How to get rid of this unexpectedely opening of my documents? The Reason: The reason for this is simple. My Documents folder is in your startup that’s…

  • How To Restore Compressed (Zipped) Folder in Send To Menu

    Kavi from Gujrat has asked about how to restore compressed (Zipped) Folder in Send To Menu. Here is his question reproduced: Recently i am facing one new problem. in my pc when i try to send any file to Compress doing right click on it, where the option SEND TO COMPRESSED FOLDER should be visible,…

  • How To Remove infostealer pws-yahmali Virus

    Today I got a mail from John stating that he wanted to remove pws-yahmali virus. So I have researched on the removal of this virus. McAfee detection center calls it pws-yahmali trojen and Symantec calls it infostealer.yahmali. It’s risk level is very low. And it’s only a password stealer. It attempts to steal the password…

  • Make Folder A Drive In My Computer

    CHIRANJIB, a regular reader of www.technize.com has asked about how to show a folder as a drive in My Computer. Here’s his question: Hi Sanix, I heard from one of friend to create a image drive in the hard disk. Will t please tell me how a image drive can be created. CHIRANJIB There are…

  • How to Fix Internet Explorer Crashes

    Internet Explorer to me is a very delicate browser. There are some major improvements in IE 7 but the base remains the same. People find it very difficult when Internet Explorer crashes and all the data is lost. Sometimes, the Internet Explorer keeps on crashing. There are several reasons behind this but the most common…

  • Free PDF Converter Software Part 1

    PDF (Portable Document Format) is the file format created by Adobe back in 1993 for exchanging documents. It’s advantage is that the document created in PDF format looks the same regardless of the Operating System, hardware or software. The PDF file includes all the images, fonts, text etc within the single file. Adobe Acrobat Reader…

  • How To Remove Boot.vbs Virus

    Today my antivirus (NOD32 Security Suite) was creating troubles for me. After every five minutes, a request to debug the application would appear because the some module of NOD32 would crash and then reload. It has been a long time that I have been using NOD32. So I decided to test some other antivirus. There…