Category: Windows

  • Volume Control Program has not been installed

    Windows is very bad in terms of protecting itself from other programs. For example, I was installing some device drivers and after I finished everything and double clicked the Windows sound control in the status bar, it gave me the following error: “Volume Control Program has not been installed” I did a little research and…

  • Auto logon in Windows XP

    Sometimes we tend to forget the things which we consider very small and unimportant. And this forgetfulness grows with the use of technology. As our knowledge grows, instead of keeping all of it in our mind, we tend to store some information in our computers, some of it is stored in our calendars, emails, to…

  • Add/Remove Programs In Windows Vista

    Ever since I have started using Windows Vista, I have been wondering what Microsoft has done with their range of Operating Systems. I know that most of the people will say that Vista is better than other operating systems and blah blah but the problem is that it has been, for me, so far the…

  • The Funny Techie Abbreviations

    NAPSTERNo longer A Possible Solution To Escape Record-buying TWAINTechnology Without Any Important Name PCMCIAPeople Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms ISDNIt Still Does Nothing APPLEArrogance Produces Profit Losing Entity SCSISystem Can’t See It DOSDefective Operating System BASICBill’s Attempt to Seize Industry Control IBMI Blame Microsoft (or conversely “I Build Macs”) DECDo Expect Cuts CD-ROMConsumer Device-Rendered Obsolete…

  • Newfolder.exe Removal Tool 2.5

    To remove this virus and also some of it’s variants you can now use my own Anti-Virus It is able to detect and clean viruses only by running it. It can also remove virus from flash drives and scan single folders for viruses. By the time, I will add support for removing other viruses also.…

  • Removing The Msn Virus

    Instant messaging has been increasing for years. And most popular IM software is Msn messenger. As the use of Msn messenger increases, more worms and viruses get propagated through the messenger. Here’s the latest one usually called the Msn virus. Technical Names: Also known as W32.Mimbot.A, W32/Delf-EXR, WORM_IRCBOT.AJY What it does: It comes through Msn…

  • The Best Email Client – DreamMail

    I don’t like outlook express as it isn’t good at retrieving mail from my yahoo and other web based accounts except hotmail.. Recently I was looking for an email client that could do everything for me .. at least what I wanted. And I came across this email client–DreamMail–It seems to be the best from…

  • New Folder.exe Virus Removal Tool

    Virus Infections This virus affects your system by Disabling Task Manager Disabling Registry Editor Creates a startup entry to start upon system start and Creates its own exe files in Shared Documents folder which appear like ordinary folders. Disables Folder Options Uses your 50% or more processor

  • How to change Internet Explorer DNS Cache , KeepAlive and Server Info Timeouts

    David Kingsland asks here about changing the Internet Explorer default DNS Cache. Changing the DNS Cache Timeout The default DNS Cache timeout can be changed through the following method: 1. Start Registry Editor. 2. Locate and click the following key in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings 3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then

  • How to fix Unmountable Boot Volume in Windows XP

    Problem Most of the times when the system gets halted improperly due to power outage or due to some other reason, the file system gets corrupted and Windows is unable to mount the boot drive properly. There are other factors that also result in unmountable boot volume. These include faster UDMA modes configured in BIOS…